{"id":13372,"date":"2011-02-14T00:05:54","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T05:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13372"},"modified":"2011-02-14T10:29:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T15:29:14","slug":"monday-big-east-basketball-tv-picks-west-virginia-at-syacuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/monday-big-east-basketball-tv-picks-west-virginia-at-syacuse-13372\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Big East Basketball TV Picks: West Virginia at Syacuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

West Virgninia Mountaineers at Syracuse Orange, Carrier Dome, Syracuse, NY
\nMonday, February 14, 2011, 7:00 pm Eastern, TV: ESPN
\nOpening Line: Syracuse -5
\nCurrent Line: Syracuse -5.5
\nOpening Total: 133
\nCurrent Total: 133
\nMoney Line: Syracuse -220 \/ West Virginia +180
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\"Syracuse
Scoop Jardine broke out of his shooting slump for the Orange on Saturday with a 20-point effort<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 12th-ranked Syracuse Orange (20-6, 7-6 Big East) will look to avoid their fourth straight home loss on Monday when they host the 25th-ranked West Virginia Mountaineers (16-8, 7-5) at the Carrier Dome.\u00a0 The Orange (-5.5) will also go for their fourth victory in a row against the Mountaineers in a series they have dominated by winning 16 of the last 19 meetings.<\/p>\n

Syracuse has struggled lately in conference play, dropping six of eight following an 18-0 start to the season.\u00a0 The Orange have lost consecutive games after ending a season-high four-game losing streak with a pair of wins.\u00a0 They are coming off a 73-69 loss at Louisville on Saturday, nearly rallying all the way back from a 20-point deficit in the second half.<\/p>\n

The backcourt of Scoop Jardine and Brandon Triche turned in one of their best combined performances of the season for Syracuse, totaling 41 points, seven assists and five rebounds with just two turnovers between them.\u00a0 The duo was especially dangerous from beyond the 3-point arc, making 8 of 17 shots and 15 of 28 overall.\u00a0 Freshman C.J. Fair was the only other Orange player to finish in double figures with 11 points while leading scorer Kris Joseph was held to nine on 2 of 5 shooting from the field and 4 of 6 from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n

Joseph had scored in double figures in the previous six games along with 11 of 12 and will need to be aggressive down the stretch if his team is going to be a factor in the Big East or NCAA tournaments.\u00a0 He scored 13 in a 72-71 win at West Virginia last year, and Triche led the way with a team-high 16 as a freshman.<\/p>\n

West Virginia allowed Syracuse to shoot nearly 58 percent from the field (26 of 45) in that game and made two less baskets on 16 more attempts (39.3 percent).\u00a0 The Mountaineers got a game-high 18 points from Darryl Bryant, who scored 11 in an 82-71 win over DePaul on Saturday.\u00a0 The Blue Demons lost their 25th straight Big East game despite shooting 51 percent from the field.<\/p>\n

The 82 points were the most for West Virginia in nine games, as the team had scored more than 68 only once in the previous eight.\u00a0 The Mountaineers have failed to cover their last three games with the total going OVER in the past two.\u00a0 They have also failed to cover the last three meetings in the series with the Orange along with eight of the past 10.\u00a0 The UNDER is 5-1 in the last six games between the teams.<\/p>\n

Now that you have read this Big East college basketball betting preview featuring Syracuse & West Virginia, 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":"

West Virgninia Mountaineers at Syracuse Orange, Carrier Dome, Syracuse, NY Monday, February 14, 2011, 7:00 pm Eastern, TV: ESPN Opening Line: Syracuse -5 Current Line: Syracuse -5.5 Opening Total: 133 Current Total: 133 Money Line: Syracuse -220 \/ West Virginia +180 The 12th-ranked Syracuse Orange (20-6, 7-6 Big East) will look to avoid their fourth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":9770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4319,4381,3887,4316,4317,4318,580,4487,449],"class_list":["post-13372","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-ncaa-basketball-odds","tag-ncaa-hoops-picks","tag-syracuse-orange","tag-syracuse-west-virginia-preview","tag-west-virginia-mountaineers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13372","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=13372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13374,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13372\/revisions\/13374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}