{"id":13447,"date":"2011-02-17T17:41:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T22:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13447"},"modified":"2011-02-17T17:41:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T22:41:27","slug":"ncaa-mens-basketball-winning-picks-santa-clara-broncos-at-gonzaga-bulldogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-mens-basketball-winning-picks-santa-clara-broncos-at-gonzaga-bulldogs-13447\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Men’s Basketball Winning Picks: Santa Clara Broncos At Gonzaga Bulldogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Santa Clara Broncos AT Gonzaga Bulldogs
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Gonzaga -14.5
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Gonzaga -13.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 140.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 141
\nOpening Moneyline: Gonzaga -1300 \/ SC +850
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Gonzaga -1500 \/ SC +900<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Gonzaga is heavily favored over Santa Clara tonight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tonight’s game brings together two West Coast Conference rivals.\u00a0 Santa Clara enters tonight’s game with a 16-11 overall record and a 6-4 conference record (good for 4th in the conference).\u00a0 Gonzaga is 17-9 and they sport a 7-3 WCC record (good for 2nd in the conference).\u00a0 Gonzaga has won 4 of their last 5, with victories over San Diego, Portland, Loyola Marymount, and Pepperdine, and the loss was to Memphis.\u00a0 Santa Clara has won 6 of their last 8 games, with victories over San Diego (twice), Gonzaga, Portland, Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount, UCSC.\u00a0 Their last three losses have been two games dropped to Saint Mary’s and a loss to San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Both teams sport positive point differentials.\u00a0 Gonzaga has won their games by an average of 9.8 points per game and their 76.0 points per game rank them 36th in the nation in scoring.\u00a0 They give up 66.3 a game.\u00a0 Santa Clara is averaging 72.7 points per game and giving up 69.5 points per game for a +3.1 differential.\u00a0 The combinative average of the teams’ offensive output is 148.7, 8.2 points higher than the opening total set by college basketball oddsmakers.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Santa Clara is 4-2 SU in their last 6 road games and the total has gone UNDER in 4 of their last 5 on the road.\u00a0 Santa Clara is 1-5 ATS in their last 6 games on the road against Gonzaga.\u00a0 Santa Clara is 0-5 SU in their last 5 games against Gonzaga.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 8 of Santa Clara’s last 10 games on the road against the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n

Gonzaga is 4-1 SU in their last 5 gmaes and the total has gone UNDER in 5 of Gonzaga’s last 6 games.\u00a0 Gonzaga is 8-2 SU in their last 10 games at home and the total has gone UNDER in 5 of their last 7 at home.\u00a0 Gonzaga is 22-2 SU in their last 24 games against Santa Clara and the total has gone OVER in 14 of their last 17 against Santa Clara.\u00a0 Gonzaga is 5-0 SU in their last 5 home games against the Broncos and the total has gone OVER In 8 of the lats 10 home games against Santa Clara.<\/p>\n

Gonzaga is led by 6’5″ senior guard Steven Gray.\u00a0 Gray is the only player on the Bulldogs to average more than 30 minutes a game, and he leads the Bulldogs in scoring with 14.6 points per game, and also records 4 assists per game, 3.4 rebounds per game, and 1.7 steals per contest.\u00a0 He shoots a solid 37.9% from three (55 of 145) and is 42.5% from the floor.\u00a0 His scoring average is lower than perhaps it should be due to 4 terrible games he has had so far (Washington State, Lewis-Cl, Baylor, and Lafayette), in which he failed to reach double figures and averaged 4.8 points per game.\u00a0 He had a 35 point night in a 3 point loss to San Diego State.\u00a0 Gonzaga is 2-2 when he scores more than 20 points per game.<\/p>\n

Gonzaga also has a talented 7 footer in Robert Sacre.\u00a0 Sacre is a junior and he is having his best season so far this year.\u00a0 He’s posting 12.9 points per game, 6.7 rebounds per game, and 1.9 blocks per night.\u00a0 He’ll keep the paint closed up and stifle a lot of Santa Clara’s penetration by changing and blocking shots.<\/p>\n

Santa Clara is led by 6’2″ sophomore point guard Kevin Foster.\u00a0 Foster averages 19.3 points per game, 3.8 assists, and 1.7 steals per game.\u00a0 He has scored in double figures in all but 2 Santa Clara games and he has scored more than 20 eleven times, of which Santa Clara has won 6 of the 11 games.\u00a0 He’s scored 25 and 21 in his last two games and is 15 of 34 from the floor in those two games.\u00a0 He shoots 36.6% from three (90 of 246) and 39.3% from the floor.\u00a0 His inefficiency is troubling and when he scores big it doesn’t always equate to Santa Clara victories.\u00a0 Marc Trasolini and Evan Roquemore contribute 22.6 points per game between themselves and other than them and Foster, no one on Santa Clara makes any significant contributions.<\/p>\n

Tonight’s game isn’t predicted to be a close one by oddsmakers, but Santa Clara could keep it close if they get contributions from players other than Foster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santa Clara Broncos AT Gonzaga Bulldogs Opening Line:\u00a0 Gonzaga -14.5 Current Line:\u00a0 Gonzaga -13.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 140.5 Current Total:\u00a0 141 Opening Moneyline: Gonzaga -1300 \/ SC +850 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Gonzaga -1500 \/ SC +900 Tonight’s game brings together two West Coast Conference rivals.\u00a0 Santa Clara enters tonight’s game with a 16-11 overall record and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":5698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[1202,4499],"class_list":["post-13447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-gonzaga-bulldogs","tag-santa-clara-broncos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13447","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\/40250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13449,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13447\/revisions\/13449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}