{"id":14422,"date":"2011-03-24T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=14422"},"modified":"2011-03-24T13:51:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T18:51:41","slug":"southeast-region-2-florida-vs-3-byu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/southeast-region-2-florida-vs-3-byu-14422\/","title":{"rendered":"Southeast Region: (2) Florida vs (3) BYU"},"content":{"rendered":"

BYU Cougars Vs.\u00a0 Florida Gators<\/strong>
\nMar 24, 2011 at 7:27 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Florida -2.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Florida -3<\/strong>
\nOpening total: 149<\/strong>
\nCurrent total: 149<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 Fla -150 \/ BYU + 130<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Fla -160 \/ BYU +140<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Fredette is averaging 28.8 points per game this year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For all that Fredette is, and for all that he is talked about, it is his teammates that are starting to receive credit and most coaches now realize that to beat BYU, a team must do more than just keep Jimmer Fredette in check, but also limit his teammates, such as Jackson Emory, Noah Hartsock, and Charles Abouo.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s see what they\u2019ll do with Jimmer\u2019s ball screens,\u2019\u2019 BYU coach Dave Rose said. \u201cThe rest of our team will react to that. If they\u2019re going to come off that ball screen and just trap him and make him get the ball out of his hands, then we\u2019re going to be playing with an advantage the whole night because we\u2019ll have four offensive players attacking three defensive players.\u00a0 If they\u2019re going to go underneath that thing, then Jimmer is probably going to get a couple of shots off, So we all know, the whole team understands, what the first few minutes are.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Florida is favored by most experts, but BYU is a good team and it seems that the great players always seem to shine when the pressure is the greatest.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Florida is 6-1 SU in their last 7 games and the total has gone OVER in 8 of Florida’s last 10 games.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Comparison Statistics:<\/strong><\/p>\n

BYU Overall Scoring\u00a0 81.61<\/strong>
\nFlorida Overall Defense\u00a0 62.77<\/strong><\/p>\n

BYU Road Rebounds 36.93<\/strong>
\nFlorida Home Rebounds Allowed\u00a0 30.96<\/strong><\/p>\n

Florida Overall Scoring\u00a0 71.80<\/strong>
\nBYU Overall Defense\u00a0 64.47<\/strong><\/p>\n

Florida Home Scoring 72.65<\/strong>
\nBYU Road Defense\u00a0 71.00<\/strong><\/p>\n

Florida Home Rebounds: 37.39<\/strong>
\nBYU Road Rebounds Allowed 34.79<\/strong><\/p>\n

All five Gator starters will receive significant minutes in this game.\u00a0 Look for Macklin and Alex Tyus to get more involved with the slight bump in playing time.\u00a0 Erving Walker and Boynton combine to average 28.7 points per game and account for 5.9 assists too, meaning they have a hand in 56% of Florida’s points.\u00a0 He has scored 18 (against UC Santa Barbara) and 21 (vs UCLA) and he shot 5 of 8 from the floor in both games.\u00a0 It was nice redemption from the 8 point performance he turned in for the SEC championship game against Kentucky.<\/p>\n

Fredette averages 28.8 points per game, but BYU is a very good scoring team (8th in the nation) and Emery and Davies combine for 23.7 points per game.\u00a0 Emery, a 6’3″ junior guard, is second to Fredette in scoring with 12.6 points per game, 2.7 assists per game, and 2.8 steals per game.\u00a0 He’ll play passing lanes extremely well and will always look to push the ball.\u00a0 Emery shoots 35.9% from three (89 of 248) and put up 16 points on 6 of 11 shooting against Gonzaga last game.\u00a0 He didn’t play particularly well against Wofford in the opening round (8 points on 2 of 8 shooting), but he has only had back to back scoring under 10 points games once (1\/26 vs SDSU & 1\/29 vs New Mex).\u00a0 He hit a three in all but three BYU games this season, but BYU still won the matchups in which he did not hit a three, which might be expected when a team has a record as solid as BYU’s.<\/p>\n

While most are selecting Florida for this matchup, I am not going to write BYU off by any means.\u00a0 Their scoring prowess makes them very tough for anyone to beat and just having one of the best players in the tournament makes them that much more of a threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BYU Cougars Vs.\u00a0 Florida Gators Mar 24, 2011 at 7:27 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Florida -2.5 Current Line:\u00a0 Florida -3 Opening total: 149 Current total: 149 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 Fla -150 \/ BYU + 130 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Fla -160 \/ BYU +140 For all that Fredette is, and for all that he is talked about, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":9812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3385,499],"class_list":["post-14422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-brigham-young-cougars","tag-florida-gators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14422","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=14422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14426,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14422\/revisions\/14426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}