{"id":13468,"date":"2011-02-18T18:07:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T23:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13468"},"modified":"2011-02-18T18:07:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T23:07:58","slug":"ivy-league-game-2-princeton-tigers-at-yale-bulldogs-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ivy-league-game-2-princeton-tigers-at-yale-bulldogs-betting-preview-13468\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivy League Game #2: Princeton Tigers at Yale Bulldogs Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Princeton Tigers AT Yale Bulldogs
\nFeb 18, 2011 at 7 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Princeton -3.5
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Princeton -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 128.5
\nCurrent Total: 127.5
\nOpening Moneyline: Prince -160 \/ Yale +140
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Prince -155 \/ Yale +135<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Princeton is a narrow 3 point favorite over Yale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Princeton (19-4) enters tonight’s game with a perfect Ivy League conference record of 7-0.\u00a0 Extending that lead with an 8-0 record may not be as easy as fans would anticipate.\u00a0 College basketball oddsmakers have set the line close, but in Princeton’s favor at an opening line of -3.5\u00a0 Yale (12-10)\u00a0 is a legitimate opponent, especially at home where they are 7-3 this year.\u00a0 Last game they only lost by 4, and that was at Princeton.\u00a0 Tonight’s game has all the makings of a close down to the wire game.<\/p>\n

Princeton, despite being 19-4, has only a +6.8 point differential.\u00a0 They are 154th in the nation in scoring with 69.9 a game and they give up only 63.1.\u00a0 Yale scores 68.5 a game and gives up 67.0, for a +1.5 differential — about what one would expect from a team near .500.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Princeton is 7-1 SU in their last 8 road games and 2-4 SU in their last 6 road games against Yale.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Princeton’s last 6 road games at Yale.<\/p>\n

Yale is 7-3 SU In their last 10 games and the total has gone OVER in all 5 of Yale’s last 5 games.\u00a0 Yale is 4-1 SU in their last 5 at home and 2-4 ATS in their last 6 against Princeton.\u00a0 Yale is 1-4 SU in their last 5 against Princeton and the total has gone OVER in 4 of the last 6 games against Princeton.\u00a0 Yale is 4-2 SU in their last 6 home games against Princeton and the total has gone UNDER in 5 of the last 6 home games against Princeton.<\/p>\n

Princeton is led by the quartet of Ian Hummer, Kareem Maddox, Dan Mavraides, and Douglas Davis.\u00a0 Together, the four of them average 53 a game, which is 75% of Princeton’s total scoring output.\u00a0 Hummer, a 6’7″ sophomore forward, leads the way with 14.0 points per game, 6.8 rebounds per game and over a block and over a steal per game.\u00a0 He has scored in double figures in all but 5 games, and Princeton won all 5 of the games he did not, anyway.\u00a0 His best game of the year came in a 2 point road loss to Presbyterian when he managed 24 points and 24 rebounds, going 10 of 13 from the floor.\u00a0 Maddox, a 6’8″ senior forward, leads the team in rebounding with 7.8 boards a game and is second in scoring with 13.2 points per game.\u00a0 He has accrued three double doubles so far, and Princeton has won all three of those games.\u00a0 His best effort so far came in a 9 point win over Siena, when he scored 30 points and grabbed 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n

Yale is led by big man 6’10” junior forward Greg Mangano.\u00a0 Mangano puts up 16.0 points per game, grabs 9.7 rebounds per game, and blocks nearly 3 shots a game.\u00a0 His interior presence gives most teams immense trouble, as few teams can find someone to matchup with Mangano’s size.\u00a0 The problem for Yale is that there are not enough other players creating mismatches or playing significantly well enough for Yale to be much more than a middle of the road Ivy League ballclub.<\/p>\n

Tonight’s game will be a close battle.\u00a0 If Mangano can get going and control the paint effectively, Yale could pull the upset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Princeton Tigers AT Yale Bulldogs Feb 18, 2011 at 7 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Princeton -3.5 Current Line:\u00a0 Princeton -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 128.5 Current Total: 127.5 Opening Moneyline: Prince -160 \/ Yale +140 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Prince -155 \/ Yale +135 Princeton (19-4) enters tonight’s game with a perfect Ivy League conference record of 7-0.\u00a0 Extending […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":4660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4506,4505],"class_list":["post-13468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-princeton-basketball","tag-yale-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468","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=13468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13470,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468\/revisions\/13470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}