{"id":19872,"date":"2011-11-30T09:42:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T14:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=19872"},"modified":"2011-11-30T09:42:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T14:42:58","slug":"college-basketball-picks-creighton-bluejays-vs-san-diego-state-aztecs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-creighton-bluejays-vs-san-diego-state-aztecs-19872\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Creighton Bluejays vs. San Diego State Aztecs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Creighton Bluejays at San Diego State Aztecs
\nWednesday, 11\/30\/11, 10:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 SDSU -2.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 SDSU -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 138.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 139.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The San Diego State Aztecs have won 10 consecutive home games in November<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Creighton has started the year with five wins and will be taking part in the third annual Mountain West\/Missouri Valley Conference Challenge Series.\u00a0 The Bluejays have won all five of their games by a double-digit margin, including a dominating 82-59 win over the Iowa Hawkeyes two games back as 2.5-point neutral-site underdogs.\u00a0 Sophomore forward Doug McDermott is the star of the show, averaging 23.4 points and 7.8 rebounds, entering the season as one of 50 candidates for the Wooden and Naismith Awards.\u00a0 Creighton is 15-13 ATS on the road the past two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Bluejays own a 3-1 lead in the all-time series, but the two teams haven\u2019t met since the 1974 season.\u00a0 Creighton hopes to get the MVC off to a better start in this year\u2019s event, losing eight of nine games a year ago, which followed winning the series by a 5-4 margin in 2009.\u00a0 Offensively, the team ranks first nationally with 23.2 assists per game and fourth in scoring 89.6 points per game.\u00a0 McDermott\u2019s current scoring average would make him the first MVC player over 20 points per game since the 2000-01 campaign.<\/p>\n

San Diego State is 7-1 on the year and has won four straight games since dropping a 77-67 road decision to the Baylor Bears on Nov. 15.\u00a0 The Aztecs will put their perfect 5-0 home record on the line and have beaten their opponents by an average margin of 13.2 points.\u00a0 The program has tallied a perfect 2-0 mark in this Challenge, facing the MVC favorites for the second consecutive season, handing the Wichita State Shockers an 83-69 loss a year ago.\u00a0 San Diego State is 2-3 ATS as a favorite this year and the \u2018under\u2019 is 29-23 in that situation the past two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Aztecs are led offensively by junior guard Chase Tapley, who is averaging 16.5 points per game and scored a career-high 28 points in the loss to the Bears.\u00a0 San Diego State has won 10 consecutive home games in November and will be looking for its fifth-straight win over the MVC, which is quite a turnaround from its 9-28 all-time mark.\u00a0 One player to watch tonight is sophomore guard Jamaal Franklin, who is making a case as one of the best sixth men in the nation, averaging 15.7 points in just 25 minutes of action.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Aztecs due to their 10-3 ATS mark as a home favorite of 6.5 of fewer points, while the Blue Jays are just 3-3 ATS as a road underdog of three points or less.<\/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":"

Creighton Bluejays at San Diego State Aztecs Wednesday, 11\/30\/11, 10:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 N\/A Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 SDSU -2.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 SDSU -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 138.5 Current Total:\u00a0 139.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Creighton has started the year with five wins and will be taking part in the third annual Mountain West\/Missouri Valley Conference […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":3959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[5744,5736,4797,5798,5737,4113,1675,2491],"class_list":["post-19872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-cbb","tag-chase-tapley","tag-creighton-bluejays","tag-doug-mcdermott","tag-jamaal-franklin","tag-missouri-valley","tag-mountain-west","tag-san-diego-state-aztecs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19872","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=19872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19874,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19872\/revisions\/19874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}