{"id":19392,"date":"2011-11-14T22:45:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T03:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=19392"},"modified":"2011-11-14T22:53:42","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T03:53:42","slug":"ncaa-hoops-predictions-florida-gators-vs-ohio-state-buckeyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-hoops-predictions-florida-gators-vs-ohio-state-buckeyes-19392\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Hoops Predictions: Florida Gators vs. Ohio State Buckeyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 8 Florida Gators at No. 3 Ohio State Buckeyes
\nTuesday, 11\/15\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Ohio State -10.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Ohio State -10.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 135.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 136.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Florida Gators are double-digit road underdogs against the Ohio State Buckeyes Tuesday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Florida opened its season with a 99-59 win over Jackson State as it served as the program\u2019s 21st consecutive season-opening win.\u00a0 The Gators saw five players score in double figures, with Kenny Boynton and Mike Rosario scoring 19 points each.\u00a0 Revenge is likely on the minds of the program after suffering a 93-75 loss to the Ohio State Buckeyes in last year\u2019s meeting as 2.5-point home favorites, while the game went over the posted total of 141.\u00a0 Florida is 13-7 ATS as an underdog the last two-plus years, while the \u2018over\u2019 is 12-7 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Gators have six wins over top-three teams in program history, with one at home and five taking place in neutral-site contests.\u00a0 Florida returned its starting guards from its SEC Championship team of a year ago, as both Boynton and Erving Walker were named to the conference\u2019s second team.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that the team posted a .750 winning percentage away form home last season, which was the third best in the nation.<\/p>\n

Ohio State is coming off a dominating 73-42 win over Wright State inside the Value City Arena, covering the 27-point number with ease, while the contest stayed under the posted total of 127.\u00a0 The Buckeyes are 38-1 inside the venue since the start of the 2009-10 season, while owning an 81-5 mark overall against non-conference opponents since it started hosting games there.\u00a0 Head coach Thad Matta is in his eighth season in Columbus, tallying a 33-5 record in November.\u00a0 Ohio State is 3-1 ATS as home favorite of 9.5 to 12 points, while also going 8-5 ATS when playing on Tuesdays.<\/p>\n

The Buckeyes were led by sophomore Jared Sullinger\u2019s 19 points, as he scored in double figures for the 35th time in his career.\u00a0 Senior William Buford is the team\u2019s overall leader, coming in with 1,437 career points, sitting in 21st place in program history in that particular category.\u00a0 Focusing more on the team\u2019s dominance at home, Ohio State outscored opponents by 24.1 points per game on its way to a perfect 20-0 record.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Gators due to their 6-0-1 ATS mark as an underdog, while the Buckeyes are just 2-2 ATS versus SEC opponents.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the college basketball handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No. 8 Florida Gators at No. 3 Ohio State Buckeyes Tuesday, 11\/15\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Ohio State -10.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Ohio State -10.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 135.5 Current Total:\u00a0 136.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Florida opened its season with a 99-59 win over Jackson State as it served as the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[499,3883,5741,463,739,4004,5742],"class_list":["post-19392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-florida-gators","tag-jared-sullinger","tag-kenny-boynton","tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","tag-sec","tag-thad-matta","tag-value-city-arena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19392","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\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19393,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19392\/revisions\/19393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}