{"id":13536,"date":"2011-02-21T18:30:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T23:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13536"},"modified":"2011-02-21T18:30:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T23:30:32","slug":"shootout-in-chatanooga-furman-paladins-at-tennessee-chattanooga-mocs-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/shootout-in-chatanooga-furman-paladins-at-tennessee-chattanooga-mocs-betting-preview-13536\/","title":{"rendered":"Shootout in Chatanooga: Furman Paladins AT Tennessee Chattanooga Mocs Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Furman Paladins AT Tennessee Chattanooga Mocs
\nFeb 21, 2011 at 7 PM EST
\nOpening line:\u00a0\u00a0 Furman -4.5
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Furman -3.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 141
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 140.5
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 Fur -190 \/ Chat +160
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Fur: -165 \/ Chat +145<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Amu Saaka and the Paladins are favored by 3.5 over Chattanooga<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This game brings together two teams that are ranked high in their respective conferences, though those conferences are weak.\u00a0 Tennessee Chattanooga (TC), despite being only .500 at 12-12, has a 10-5 in Conference record to place them at the top of the Southern – North conference, while Furman’s 12-4 Conference record ranks them 2nd in the Southern – South conference.<\/p>\n

Chattanooga, despite being a .500 ballclub, has a negative point differential of -2.8.\u00a0 They score 71.9 a game, but give up 74.7.\u00a0 Furman is +6.4, scoring 70.5 and playing good defense to hold opponents to 64.1.\u00a0 The combinative total of the teams’ offensive output is 142.4, slighly over the total set for tonight’s game.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Furman is 4-2 SU in their last 6 road games and the total has gone UNDER in 4 of Furman’s last 6 on the road.\u00a0 Furman is 4-9 SU in their last 13 road games against Chattanooga.<\/p>\n

Chatanooga is 1-4 SU in their last 5 games and the total has gone UNDER In 5 of their last 5 games.\u00a0 Chattanooga is 5-0 SU in their last 5 games at home and 3-7 SU in their last 10 games against Furman.\u00a0 Chattanooga is 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games at home against Furman and 9-4 SU in their last 13 home games against Furman.<\/p>\n

The Furman Paladins are led by 6’6″ senior forward Amu Saaka.\u00a0 Saaka averages 17.0 points per game, 6.4 rebounds per game, and 1.1 assists.\u00a0 He shoots 38.1% from three (43 of 113) and has already had two games with 5+ threes made.\u00a0 He’s scored in double figures in all but 4 of the Paladins’ games and they are 2-2 in the games he scored less than 10 points in.\u00a0 Last game, a 7 point win over Samford, Saaka had 23 points and 9 rebounds, while shooting an impressive 7 of 10 from the floor.\u00a0 In games which Saaka scores 20 or more points, Furman is an outstanding 11-1, so if he can get going, it should be relatively easy for Furman to cover the spread and win this game.\u00a0 Outside of Saaka, Furman’s 6’8″ senior forward Noah States puts up a decent stat line of 11.1 points per game, 2 assists per game, and 5.0 rebounds per contest.\u00a0 He has been erratic and inconsistent all season.<\/p>\n

The Chattanooga Mocs are led by 6’5″ junior wingman Omar Wattad.\u00a0 Wattad puts up 14.9 points per game, 2 assists per game, and 3.8 rebounds per game.\u00a0 Wattad shoots 37.7% from distance (83 of 220).\u00a0 In the 9 games he has failed to score in double figures, Chatanooga has lost 6 of them, while they are 9-6 in games which he has scored at least 10 points.\u00a0 Wattad has already had 9 games with 10+ three point attempts, and Chatanooga is 4-5 in those games.\u00a0 Wattad’s best game of the year came in a 1 point victory over the Citadel on January 13th.\u00a0 That night Wattad put up 30 points on 11 of 19 shooting.\u00a0 6’5″ junior shooting guard Ricky Taylor also makes a significant contribution for the Mocs.\u00a0 He has averages of 13.2 points per game, 1.2 assists per game, 3.7 rebounds per game, while shooting 33.3% from three (38 of 114).\u00a0 He has been wildly inconsistent all season, but had an impressive 41 point game in a 111-110 victory over UNC Greensboro.<\/p>\n

Tonight’s game should be close, with most of it hinging on how Chatanooga handles Amu Saaka.\u00a0 If Saaka has a big game, Furman will cover the spread and win it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Furman Paladins AT Tennessee Chattanooga Mocs Feb 21, 2011 at 7 PM EST Opening line:\u00a0\u00a0 Furman -4.5 Current Line:\u00a0 Furman -3.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 141 Current Total:\u00a0 140.5 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 Fur -190 \/ Chat +160 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Fur: -165 \/ Chat +145 This game brings together two teams that are ranked high in their respective conferences, […]<\/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":[4524,4523],"class_list":["post-13536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-chattanooga-mocs","tag-furman-paladins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13536","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=13536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13538,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13536\/revisions\/13538"}],"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=13536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}