{"id":13881,"date":"2011-03-05T11:51:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T16:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13881"},"modified":"2011-03-05T11:51:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T16:51:11","slug":"sec-showdown-georgia-bulldogs-at-alabama-crimson-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/sec-showdown-georgia-bulldogs-at-alabama-crimson-tide-13881\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC Showdown: Georgia Bulldogs at Alabama Crimson Tide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Georgia Bulldogs AT Alabama Crimson Tide<\/strong>
\nMar 5, 2011 at 1:30 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Alabama -5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Alabama -4.5<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 126<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 125<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline: Ala -200 \/ Geo +170<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Ala -200 \/ Geo +170<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Trey Thompkins and the Georgia Bulldogs take on the Crimson Tide<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tonight’s game brings together two SEC rivals in Georgia (20-9) and Alabama (19-10).\u00a0 Georgia is 9-6 in SEC play and Alabama is 11-4 in SEC play.<\/p>\n

Alabama is coming off back to back losses to #14 Florida and Mississippi.\u00a0 The Florida game was not close; Alabama lost by 27.<\/p>\n

Georgia has won three of their last 4 games, with victories over Tennessee, South Carolina, and LSU, and the lone loss to the Florida Gators.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Georgia is 5-1-1 ATS in their last 7 on the road and they are 7-3 SU in their last 10 on the road.\u00a0 Georgia is 1-4 SU in their last 5 road games against Alabama.<\/p>\n

Alabama is 14-4 SU in their last 18 games and 5-0 SU in their last 5 home games.\u00a0 They are 0-5 ATS In their last 5 games against Georgia and they are 2-5 ATS in their lsat 7 home games against Georgia.\u00a0 Alabama is 4-1 SU in their last 5 home games against Georgia.<\/p>\n

Georgia is led by 6’10” junior forward Trey Thompkins.\u00a0 Thompkins averages 15.8 points per game, 7.5 rebounds per game and 1.8 blocks per game.\u00a0 Despite his solid stats, he has only had 4 double doubles all year, and Georgia has lost three of those games, as it was anyway.\u00a0 Last game against LSU he only played 22 minutes, scoring 8 points and getting 5 rebounds.\u00a0 He has been somewhat inconsistent, but has had a number of pretty big games.\u00a0 When he scores 20 or more Georgia is 7-1 this year so if Thompkins can get cookin and score a lot, Georgia will be in good position to win this one.<\/p>\n

Alabama is led by the duo of JaMychal Green and Tony Mitchell.\u00a0 The tandem combine for 31.4 points per game which accounts for 46% of Alabama’s total scoring.\u00a0 Green, a 6’8″ junior forward, averages 15.9 points per game, a team best, as well as a team leading 7.5 rebounds per game.\u00a0 He is also a good shot blocker, swatting away 2.2 shots a game.\u00a0 He’ll give Thompkins some pressure inside and will look to control him on the boards.\u00a0 Mitchell is a 6’6″ sophomore forward who also averages 15.6 a game and is second on the team in rebounding too with 7.1 rebounds per game.\u00a0 He’s had three double doubles this year and Alabama has won all three games.<\/p>\n

The Crimson Tide are favored because they have the interior defense to slow down Thompkins.\u00a0 Moreover, they are at home, which will give them an added boost.\u00a0 If Green and Mitchell can manage to get going, then the Bulldogs could be in serious trouble.\u00a0 The duo is so important to the success of the Tide and when they get going the team is at its best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Georgia Bulldogs AT Alabama Crimson Tide Mar 5, 2011 at 1:30 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Alabama -5 Current Line:\u00a0 Alabama -4.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 126 Current Total:\u00a0 125 Opening Moneyline: Ala -200 \/ Geo +170 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Ala -200 \/ Geo +170 Tonight’s game brings together two SEC rivals in Georgia (20-9) and Alabama (19-10).\u00a0 Georgia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":9808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[462,461],"class_list":["post-13881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-georgia-bulldogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13881","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=13881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13882,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13881\/revisions\/13882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}