{"id":13788,"date":"2011-03-02T21:59:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T02:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13788"},"modified":"2011-03-03T09:38:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T14:38:22","slug":"thursday-big-east-basketball-tv-picks-st-johns-at-seton-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/thursday-big-east-basketball-tv-picks-st-johns-at-seton-hall-13788\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Big East Basketball TV Picks: St. John’s at Seton Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

St. John’s Red Storm at Seton Hall Pirates, Prudential Center, Newark, NJ<\/strong>
\n Thursday, March 3, 2011, 7 pm Eastern, TV: ESPN2<\/strong>
\n Opening Line: St. John’s -3<\/strong>
\n Current Line: St. John’s -3<\/strong>
\n Opening Total: 128<\/strong>
\n Current Total: 130<\/strong>
\n Money Line: St. John’s -150 \/ Seton Hall +130
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Jeremy Hazell and the Pirates hope to end the Red Storm's seven-game Big East winning streak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 15th-ranked St. John\u2019s Red Storm (19-9, 11-5) are one of the hottest teams in the country, winners of six straight games overall and seven in a row in conference play. After beating six Top 25 opponents this season, the Red Storm (-3) can clinch a double bye in the Big East tournament with wins in their final two games, starting with this road matchup against the Seton Hall Pirates (11-17, 5-11) on Thursday.<\/p>\n

St. John\u2019s has been riding senior Dwight Hardy down the stretch, as he is averaging over 25 points in the last nine games. The Red Storm are 8-1 straight-up in those games, going 7-2 against the spread, including six straight covers. Hardy scored a career-high 34 points in an 81-68 victory at Villanova last Saturday to state his case for Big East Player of the Year honors.<\/p>\n

Few can argue that Hardy is not deserving of the award at this point, but he will need to help his team finish the regular season strong against two opponents St. John\u2019s should beat. However, the Red Storm have not won a game at Seton Hall in 13 years, dropping six straight there. The Pirates have also won seven of the last 10 meetings overall, going 6-4 ATS.<\/p>\n

Seton Hall is riding a three-game losing streak and has also dropped five of six since posting consecutive wins against Syracuse and Providence. A 69-64 road win at Rutgers on February 12 is the team\u2019s only victory since January, and the UNDER is 6-0-1 in the past seven games.<\/p>\n

The Pirates have lost their last two games on the road at Marquette (73-64) and Notre Dame (60-48) after falling at home to Villanova and Connecticut by a combined five points. Leading scorer Jeremy Hazell totaled 14 points against the Fighting Irish in their latest game last Saturday while Jeff Robinson led the way with 16. Seton Hall had no answer for Notre Dame\u2019s Tim Abromaitis and Ben Hansbrough, who combined to make six 3-pointers en route to 43 points between them.<\/p>\n

Seton Hall has played fairly well defensively despite the skid, surrendering more than 64 points just once in the last six games.\u00a0 The UNDER is a remarkable 11-1 in the last 12 home games for the Pirates and 8-3 in the last 11 meetings.\u00a0 St. John\u2019s has found a way to win high-scoring games and low-scoring affairs, which is reflected in a perfect 4-4 split on totals in the team\u2019s last eight games. The Red Storm have given up more than 68 points only once over that period.<\/p>\n

If you are betting this Big East college basketball game between Seton Hall & St. John’s, be sure to check out the winning basketball picks packages we offer.\u00a0 You can also get free winners on our free NCAA basketball picks page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

St. John’s Red Storm at Seton Hall Pirates, Prudential Center, Newark, NJ Thursday, March 3, 2011, 7 pm Eastern, TV: ESPN2 Opening Line: St. John’s -3 Current Line: St. John’s -3 Opening Total: 128 Current Total: 130 Money Line: St. John’s -150 \/ Seton Hall +130 The 15th-ranked St. John\u2019s Red Storm (19-9, 11-5) are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":9744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4319,4381,3887,4316,4317,4318,4300,4564,4205],"class_list":["post-13788","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-seton-hall-pirates","tag-seton-hall-st-johns-preview","tag-st-johns-red-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13788","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=13788"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13808,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13788\/revisions\/13808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}