{"id":19529,"date":"2011-11-20T11:27:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T16:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=19529"},"modified":"2011-11-20T11:27:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T16:27:30","slug":"college-basketball-odds-purdue-boilermakers-vs-alabama-crimson-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-odds-purdue-boilermakers-vs-alabama-crimson-tide-19529\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Odds: Purdue Boilermakers vs. Alabama Crimson Tide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Purdue Bulldogs vs. Alabama Crimson Tide
\nSunday, 11\/20\/11, 7:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Alabama -1
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Alabama -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 128
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 131
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Purdue Boilermakers are underdogs against the Alabama Crimson Tide despite winning the last two meetings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Purdue will be meeting up with Alabama for the third consecutive year, winning the last two meetings easily and also covering the spread.\u00a0 The Boilermakers overcome a 16-point deficit in Tuscaloosa in 2009 and earned a 66-47 win in last year\u2019s meeting inside Mackey Arena.\u00a0 The two teams are playing in the Puerto Rico Tip-off championship game.\u00a0 Purdue has tallied a 26-16 record on neutral courts under the direction of coach Matt Painter, playing in the fourth exempt-event championship in as many years.\u00a0 Purdue is 3-0 ATS versus SEC opponents the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Boilermakers offense has been driven by their success behind the arc, averaging 11.3 three-pointers per game, hitting 45 of their 101 attempts.\u00a0 Senior Robbie Hummel has certainly shown signs of being healthy this season after tearing his right ACL in February of last year, averaging 20.8 points and 5.3 rebounds in 31.8 minutes.\u00a0 Purdue is getting solid play from its trio of seniors, led by Hummel, with all three averaging at lest 12.8 points per game.<\/p>\n

Alabama advanced through the winners\u2019 bracket with victories over Maryland and Wichita State, as the defense is allowing just 50.8 points per game, which is the 17th-lowest mark nationally.\u00a0 \u201cThat was the goal coming in and we\u2019re happy to have the opportunity to play for a championship,\u201d stated Crimson Tide coach Anthony Grant.\u00a0 The Crimson Tide defense was in all its glory versus the Shockers, tallying a tournament-record 14 blocks, while also forcing 18 turnovers.\u00a0 Alabama is 24-11 ATS as a favorite the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Crimson Tide will certainly be tested in facing a Boilermakers\u2019 squad that\u2019s scored 80 or more points the last two games, but they\u2019ve managed to hold opponents to just 30.9 percent shooting this year.\u00a0 Alabama returns three starters and six players from last year\u2019s team that reached the NIT championship game and finished with a 25-12 record.\u00a0 A victory in this contest would make the program 5-0 to open a season for the first time since the 2006-07 campaign.\u00a0 The team has enjoyed spending time in Puerto Rico, winning nine of 12 games heading into this contest.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Boilermakers due to their 7-2 ATS mark as an underdog of less than 6.5 points, while the Crimson Tide are 3-7 ATS in neutral site contests.<\/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":"

Purdue Bulldogs vs. Alabama Crimson Tide Sunday, 11\/20\/11, 7:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Alabama -1 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Alabama -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 128 Current Total:\u00a0 131 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Purdue will be meeting up with Alabama for the third consecutive year, winning the last two meetings easily and also covering the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[5745,4019,5796,1295,5797,739],"class_list":["post-19529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-anthony-grant","tag-matt-painter","tag-puerto-rico-tip-off","tag-purdue-boilermakers","tag-robbie-hummel","tag-sec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19529","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=19529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19530,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19529\/revisions\/19530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}