{"id":14233,"date":"2011-03-16T21:16:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T02:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=14233"},"modified":"2011-03-16T21:16:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T02:16:06","slug":"southeast-region-14-wofford-terriers-at-3-byu-cougars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/southeast-region-14-wofford-terriers-at-3-byu-cougars-14233\/","title":{"rendered":"Southeast Region: (14) Wofford Terriers at (3) BYU Cougars"},"content":{"rendered":"

(14)\u00a0 Wofford Terriers Vs. (3) BYU Cougars<\/strong>
\nMar 17, 2011 at 7:15 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 BYU -8.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 BYU -8.5<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 146.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total: 147<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 BYU -385 \/ Woff +325<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 BYU -415 \/ Woff +345<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Jimmer Fredette should have his way with the Wofford defense<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BYU finds themselves up against another conference winning team in the Wofford Terriers.\u00a0 Their 14-4 record against their very mediocre condition is impressive, but they only played one ranked opponent all year, and they lost that game by 15.\u00a0 BYU has been tested.\u00a0 They beat San Diego State twice by an average of 13 points per game.\u00a0 The third game they lost to the Azteccs, however, by 18 points.\u00a0 BYU lost the Mountain West tournament to San Diego State, however, and find themselves ranked third in the region.<\/p>\n

Wofford closed the season with an 8 game winning streak.\u00a0 None of their opponents were any teams of consequence and it’s difficult to imagine that they can handle that level of competition.\u00a0 It’s just an example of how these teams don’t belong in the tournament and better temas gog to the NIT.\u00a0 It never really completely makes sense.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

BYU is 20-3 SU in their last 23 games.\u00a0 BYU is 30-4 SU in this season and 13-16 ATS this year.\u00a0 They average 81.6 points per game and give up 67.5, for a +14.1 differential.\u00a0 BYU scores 81.6 points per game and only give up 67.5.\u00a0 They dominated the Conference until their loss to San Diego State at the end.<\/p>\n

Wofford is 4-8 ATS at home and 8-4 ATS away.\u00a0 BYU is 6-10 ATS at home and 7-6 ATS away.<\/p>\n

BYU is led by mega stud Jimmer Fredette.\u00a0 Fredette averaged 28.5 points per game, 4.2 assists per game, and 3.5 rebounds per game.\u00a0 He also managed 1.4 steals and shot 45.6% from teh floor and 89.1% from the line.\u00a0 He played over 35 minutes a game and either scored or assisted 45% of all BYU’s points.\u00a0 He has scored 30 or more 11 times and BYU is 9-2 in those games.\u00a0 He has had high games of 52 points (against New Mexico) and 47 points (against Utah).\u00a0 People are already comparing him with the likes of Mark Price.\u00a0 He has a lot of lofty expectations to live up to, even to be the next Danny Ainge.\u00a0 Fredette will succeed because he can do things Adam Morrison (the last big name from the conference) could not, namely lead a team.<\/p>\n

Wofford has one standout player:\u00a0 Noah Dahlman.\u00a0 Dahlman, a 6’6″ junior forward leads the team in both scoring (20 points per game) and rebounding (5.5 rebounds per game).\u00a0 He scored in double figures in every single Wofford game this season, and had two games with 30+ points\u00a0 (37 against Elon and 33 against Xavier).\u00a0 Over the last 8 games, all Wofford wins, Dahlman has averaged 18.8 points per game.\u00a0 Their second best player is 6’1″ senior point guard Cameron Rundles.\u00a0 Rundles is second in scoring with 14 points per game.\u00a0 He scored 20+ in 8 games and Wofford won 6 of those 8 games.\u00a0 He is a bit of a gunner.\u00a0 He shot 5 or more three pointers in 23 of Wofford’s 33 games.\u00a0 Certainly BYU will look to keep him off the three point line and force the less effcient long two point shots.<\/p>\n

There really is no reason BYU should lose this game.\u00a0 I realize they are only favored by 8.5 points, but Fredette is simply too good to let a team like Wofford keep him off his game.\u00a0 He’ll come out focused in the first game of what I think will be a deep young by the BYU Cougars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(14)\u00a0 Wofford Terriers Vs. (3) BYU Cougars Mar 17, 2011 at 7:15 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 BYU -8.5 Current Line:\u00a0 BYU -8.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 146.5 Current Total: 147 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 BYU -385 \/ Woff +325 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 BYU -415 \/ Woff +345 BYU finds themselves up against another conference winning team in the Wofford Terriers.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":9811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4696,4100,4697],"class_list":["post-14233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-byu-cougars-basketball","tag-jimmer-fredette","tag-wofford-terriers-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14233","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=14233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14234,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14233\/revisions\/14234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}