{"id":13225,"date":"2011-02-09T00:28:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T05:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13225"},"modified":"2011-02-09T10:34:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T15:34:25","slug":"wednesday-big-east-basketball-tv-picks-georgetown-at-syracuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wednesday-big-east-basketball-tv-picks-georgetown-at-syracuse-13225\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Big East Basketball TV Picks: Georgetown at Syracuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Georgetown Hoyas at Syracuse Orange, Carrier Dome, Syracuse, NY
\nWednesday, February 9, 2011, 7:00 pm Eastern, TV: ESPN
\nOpening Line: Syracuse -4.5
\nCurrent Line: Syracuse -4.5
\nOpening Total: 139.5
\nCurrent Total: 140.5
\nMoney Line: Syracuse -200 \/ Georgetown +170
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The Georgetown Hoyas have lost in their last six trips to the Carrier Dome<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 12th-ranked Syracuse Orange (20-4, 7-4 Big East) hope to have put their struggles behind them when they host their biggest conference rivals on Wednesday in the 11th-ranked Georgetown Hoyas (18-5, 7-4).\u00a0 The Orange (-4.5) seem to have rebounded from a season-high four-game skid by posting consecutive wins while the Hoyas enter this contest as the league\u2019s hottest team, riding a six-game winning streak.<\/p>\n

Georgetown had a season-high eight-game winning streak to start the year, but this current run is even more impressive considering the level of competition in the Big East.\u00a0 The two top wins for the Hoyas recently have both been decided by three points, 69-66 at #9 Villanova and 62-59 at home against #16 Louisville.\u00a0 They dodged an upset by Providence at home on Saturday, overcoming a game-high 43 points from Marshon Brooks in an 83-81 victory.<\/p>\n

Leading scorer Austin Freeman continues to be an offensive force for Georgetown, as he has averaged over 22 points per game during the winning streak.\u00a0 Freeman scored a team-high 23 points against the Friars on 9 of 15 shooting, making only 1 of 5 shots from 3-point range.\u00a0 He averaged nearly 21 points in three meetings with Syracuse last season.<\/p>\n

The Orange have dominated the Hoyas at the Carrier Dome since 2002, winning six straight meetings with them there along with 11 of 12.\u00a0 However, Georgetown upset Syracuse in last year\u2019s Big East tournament 91-84 as a 5.5-point underdog, giving the home team plenty of motivation to keep its series streak at the Dome going.<\/p>\n

Jim Boeheim would become only the fifth head coach in history to achieve 850 career wins by beating the Hoyas, and he has certainly had one of his most difficult challenges this season.\u00a0 Boeheim has denied point-shaving allegations during the team\u2019s recent losing streak that followed an impressive 18-0 start.\u00a0 He has a young team led by just one senior in forward Rick Jackson and avoided the longest losing streak of his career by winning at #10 Connecticut a week ago, 66-58.<\/p>\n

Jackson leads the conference in field-goal percentage (58.3) and rebounding (11.5 per game) and is coming off a monster game in a 72-49 rout of South Florida on Saturday.\u00a0 He totaled a game-high 21 points and 12 rebounds against the Bulls en route to the team\u2019s second straight cover.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were at a dark point,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cRight now we\u2019re playing well. Guys are confident. I think we\u2019re all playing how we\u2019re supposed to be playing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Orange are 7-2 against the spread in the last nine meetings with Georgetown with the OVER going 5-1 in the past six.\u00a0 Syracuse has seen the UNDER cash in its last three game overall while the UNDER is also 3-1 in the past four overall for the Hoyas.<\/p>\n

Now that you have read this Big East college basketball betting preview featuring Syracuse & Georgetown, check out the NCAA basketball odds on this and all the games to compare the best lines at multiple sportsbooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Georgetown Hoyas at Syracuse Orange, Carrier Dome, Syracuse, NY Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 7:00 pm Eastern, TV: ESPN Opening Line: Syracuse -4.5 Current Line: Syracuse -4.5 Opening Total: 139.5 Current Total: 140.5 Money Line: Syracuse -200 \/ Georgetown +170 The 12th-ranked Syracuse Orange (20-4, 7-4 Big East) hope to have put their struggles behind them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":9765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4319,4381,3887,4316,1341,4317,4318,4472,580],"class_list":["post-13225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-east-basketball","tag-big-east-picks","tag-college-basketball-betting","tag-free-college-basketball-pick","tag-georgetown-hoyas","tag-ncaa-basketball-odds","tag-ncaa-hoops-picks","tag-syracuse-georgetown-preview","tag-syracuse-orange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13227,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13225\/revisions\/13227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}