{"id":13822,"date":"2011-03-03T20:07:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T01:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13822"},"modified":"2011-03-03T20:07:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T01:07:31","slug":"pac-10-parlay-usc-at-washington-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/pac-10-parlay-usc-at-washington-state-13822\/","title":{"rendered":"Pac-10 Parlay: USC at Washington State"},"content":{"rendered":"

USC Trojans AT Washington State Cougars<\/strong>
\nMar 3, 2011 at 10 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Wash -4<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Wash -3.5<\/strong>
\nOpening Total: 129<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 128.5<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 Was -175 \/ USC +155<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Was -170 \/ USC +150<\/strong><\/p>\n

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USC is a 3.5 point underdog to Klay Thompson and the Washington State Cougars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tonight’s game brings together the 17-12 USC Trojans against the 18-10 Washington State Cougars.\u00a0 USC is 9-7 in Pac-10 play, good for fourth in the conference, while Washington State is 8-8 in Pac-10 play, ranking them sixth in the conference.<\/p>\n

USC has won their last 4 games, with victories over California, Stanford, #10 ranked Arizona, and Arizona State University.\u00a0 They have won the 4 games by an average of 10.8 points per game, which has improved their point differential to +4.5, as they score 66.7 a game and give up 62.2.\u00a0 Washington State has a better win differential of 7.0, scoring 73.3 a game and giving up 66.3.\u00a0 Washington State’s 73.3 points per game rank them 68th in the nation in scoring and their 45.9% field goal percentage is 65th best in the nation.\u00a0 The combinative total of the teams’ offensive output is 140, well over the total set by college basketball oddsmakers.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

USC is 2-4-1 ATS in their last 7 games on the road and 4-10 SU in their last 14 games on the road.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 5 of USC’s last 7 games on the road and USC is 2-6 SU in their last 8 road games against Washington State.<\/p>\n

Washington State is 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games and the total has gone OVER in 4 of Washington State’s last 5 games.\u00a0 Washington State is 12-4 SU in their last 16 games at home and Washington State is 11-5 SU in their last 16 games against USC.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER In 4 of Washington State’s last 5 games against USC and Washington State is 6-2 SU in their last 8 games at home against USC.<\/p>\n

USC has a 7 man rotation in which 5 of the 7 average near 10 points a game or higher.\u00a0 The 6’10” junior forward Nikola Vucevic leads the way for USC in scoring with 17.5 points per game.\u00a0 He also leads the team in rebounding with 10.3 rebounds per game.\u00a0 He has decent range on his shot that extends beyond the three point line where he shoots 38% (27 of 71).\u00a0 He has had 20 double doubles in the 29 USC games, and he has had double doubles in all 6 of the last 6 games, 5 of which were USC wins.\u00a0 His frontcourt mate Alex Stepheson makes a big contribution too.\u00a0 The 6’10” senior forward averages near a double double with 10 points per game and 8.8 rebounds per game.\u00a0 He has had 10 double doubles and USC has won 9 of those games, so his success is vital to the success of the Trojans.<\/p>\n

Washington State is led by 6’6″ junior guard Klay Thompson, who averages 21.4 points per game, 5.1 rebounds per game, 4.0 assists per game while jacking up a lot of threes (202) and hitting a good number as well (41.6%, 84 total).\u00a0 The gunner has scored in double figres in all but 2 Washington State games and has scored 20 or more 17 times.\u00a0 He is averaging 28 points per game over his last 3 games, but Washington State has dropped 2 of those contests.\u00a0 Washington State’s second leading scorer, Faisal Aden, barely scores half as much as Thompson, with 12.6 points per game and only one other Washington State starter outside Thompson gets over 30 minutes a game, 6’1″ sophomore point guard Reggie Moore.\u00a0 Moore makes solid contributions in his 34 minutes a game, putting up 9.8 points per game, 3.6 assists, and 3.2 rebounds per game.\u00a0 In the 7 games in which he has recorded 5 assists or more, Washington State has won 6 of them.<\/p>\n

Tonight’s game should be a good one, but USC must keep Thompson in check.\u00a0 When Thompson gets cooking from three, Washington State is very difficult to beat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

USC Trojans AT Washington State Cougars Mar 3, 2011 at 10 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Wash -4 Current Line:\u00a0 Wash -3.5 Opening Total: 129 Current Total:\u00a0 128.5 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 Was -175 \/ USC +155 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Was -170 \/ USC +150 Tonight’s game brings together the 17-12 USC Trojans against the 18-10 Washington State Cougars.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":3962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[472,3120],"class_list":["post-13822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-usc-trojans","tag-washington-state-cougars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13822","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=13822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13824,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13822\/revisions\/13824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}