{"id":14016,"date":"2011-03-10T10:27:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T15:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=14016"},"modified":"2011-03-10T10:27:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T15:27:59","slug":"big-10-round-i-indiana-hoosiers-at-penn-state-nittany-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/big-10-round-i-indiana-hoosiers-at-penn-state-nittany-lions-14016\/","title":{"rendered":"Big 10 Round I: Indiana Hoosiers at Penn State Nittany Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indiana AT Penn State<\/strong>
\nMar 10, 2011 at 7:30 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Penn State -4.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Penn State -4<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 128.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total: 129<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 Penn -175 \/ Ind +155<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Penn -190 \/ Ind +160<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Battle is averaging 20 points per game this year for the Nittany Lions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This game brings together the 11th seeded Indiana Hoosiers against the 4th seeded Penn State Nittany Lions.\u00a0 Indiana (12-19 sports a horrible 3-15 record in Big Ten play while Penn State (16-13) has broke even in conference play at 9-9.<\/p>\n

Penn State has won 4 of their past 6 games with victories coming against Northwestern (twice) and Minnesota (twice) and with the two losses\u00a0 having come against two ranked teams:\u00a0 #10 Wisconsin and #1 Ohio State.\u00a0 They lost those two games by an average of 15.5 points, showing that they are unable to dance with the elite teams, despite being a decent team.\u00a0 Penn State is barely above break even in point differential with +0.3.\u00a0 They play a slow paced game, scoring only 64.2 and giving up 63.9. The 64.2 points rank them 287th in the nation.<\/p>\n

Indiana has lost 8 straight.\u00a0 Their last win was on February 2nd against the then 20th ranked Minnesota.\u00a0 In Indiana’s defense, 4 of the 8 losses came against ranked teams, but they lost those games by an average of 14 a game.\u00a0 Indiana, despite being 7 games UNDER .500 still sports a +1.6 win differential.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Penn State is 4-2 SU in their last 6 games and the total has gone OVER in 4 of their last 5 games.\u00a0 Penn State is 5-1 SU in their last 6 games against Indiana and Penn State is 7-18 SU in their last 25 against Indiana.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in all 5 of Penn State and Indiana’s last 5 meetings.<\/p>\n

Indiana is led by 6’8″ sophomore forward Christian Watford.\u00a0 Watford averages a team high 16 points per game to go along with 5.4 rebounds per game.\u00a0 He’s an effective player inside and out and shoots 38.7% from three (36 of 93).\u00a0 He has scored in double figres in 28 of Indiana’s 31 games and in the three he failed to score in double figures, Indiana lost all three by an average of 12.3 points.\u00a0 He has scored 20 or more 6 times and Indiana has won 2 of those 6 games.\u00a0 Verdell Jones III and Jordan Hulls also make significant contributions, averaging 12.7 points per game and 11.1 points per game, respectively.\u00a0 Indiana goes 9 deep in their rotation and all 9 players play at least 13 minutes a game.<\/p>\n

Penn State is led by 6’0″ senior point guard Talor Battle.\u00a0 Battle averages 20.4 points per game and 3.1 assists per game, as well as 4.3 boards per game.\u00a0\u00a0 He’s scored in double figures in every Penn State game and has scored 25 or more 8 times, but Penn State has lost 5 of those games.\u00a0 He has scored 31 points twice (both against Michigan).\u00a0 Battle has increased his scoring average every year at Penn State and has averaged 37 minutes a game for the last three years.\u00a0 His career will go down as one of the best at Penn State and he could be selected in the second round of the NBA draft.<\/p>\n

Penn State is favored and really it’s because of Battle.\u00a0 He won’t be challenged by NC State’s guards and it is going to be up to Indiana’s interior players to give Penn State a challenge and win this game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Indiana AT Penn State Mar 10, 2011 at 7:30 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Penn State -4.5 Current Line:\u00a0 Penn State -4 Opening Total:\u00a0 128.5 Current Total: 129 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 Penn -175 \/ Ind +155 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Penn -190 \/ Ind +160 This game brings together the 11th seeded Indiana Hoosiers against the 4th seeded Penn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":9789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[2485,497],"class_list":["post-14016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-indiana-hoosiers","tag-penn-state-nittany-lions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14016","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=14016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14020,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14016\/revisions\/14020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}