{"id":19903,"date":"2011-12-01T15:44:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T20:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=19903"},"modified":"2011-12-01T15:44:08","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T20:44:08","slug":"big-eastsec-challenge-georgetown-hoyas-vs-alabama-crimson-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/big-eastsec-challenge-georgetown-hoyas-vs-alabama-crimson-tide-19903\/","title":{"rendered":"Big East\/SEC Challenge: Georgetown Hoyas vs. Alabama Crimson Tide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Georgetown Hoyas at No. 12 Alabama Crimson Tide
\nThursday, 12\/1\/11, 9:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Alabama -8
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Alabama -7.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 126.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 131.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Alabama Crimson Tide are 24-26 all-time versus Big East Conference opponents<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Georgetown has won three straight games and comes off an 81-58 victory over IUPUI on Monday.\u00a0 The Hoyas will be meeting the Crimson Tide for the fifth time, with each schools collecting a pair of victories, picking up a 70-60 win on a neutral floor during the 2007-08 season as part of the Big East\/SEC Challenge.\u00a0 The roster is extremely young on this squad, possessing 10 freshmen and sophomores.\u00a0 Georgetown is 18-6 ATS in non-conference action the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Hoyas are averaging 82.0 points per game and have beaten opponents by an average of 19.8 points a contest.\u00a0 Senior guard Jason Clark has the most experience of any player on the roster, playing in 103 career games.\u00a0 He was named to the Maui Invitational All-Tournament team, leading all players with 69 points, averaging 23 points a contest.\u00a0 Georgetown is 39-7 in the month of December since John Thompson III took over as head coach prior to the 2004-05 season.\u00a0 The team brought back two starters from last year\u2019s team.<\/p>\n

Alabama is set to finish up a three-game homestand Thursday and will put its perfect 7-0 record on the line.\u00a0 The Crimson Tide tallied a 72-64 win over the VCU Rams last time out, failing to cover the 14.5-point spread at home, while going over the posted total of 125.\u00a0 Head coach Anthony Grant was pleased with his team\u2019s effort after going into the break with a one-point deficit.\u00a0 \u201cDuring the last four or five minutes of the game, our guys really stepped up on the defensive end,\u201d Grant stated after the game.\u00a0 Alabama is 25-12 ATS as a favorite over the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Crimson Tide are led by a defense that allows just 52.6 points per game, which is eighth-best nationally.\u00a0 Alabama has allowed just two of its opponents to reach the 60-point mark.\u00a0 Senior guard Jamychal Green leads the team in averaging 15.5 points per game and scored 16 of his season-high 21 points in the second half of last week\u2019s game.\u00a0 The program has tallied a 24-26 all-time mark against Big East Conference opponents, but 31 of those meetings came on neutral courts.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Crimson Tide due to their 14-3-1 ATS mark as a home favorite, while the Hoyas are 1-6 ATS versus winning teams.<\/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":"

Georgetown Hoyas at No. 12 Alabama Crimson Tide Thursday, 12\/1\/11, 9:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Alabama -8 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Alabama -7.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 126.5 Current Total:\u00a0 131.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Georgetown has won three straight games and comes off an 81-58 victory over IUPUI on Monday.\u00a0 The Hoyas will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[462,2497,1341,5978,5834,739],"class_list":["post-19903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-big-east-conference","tag-georgetown-hoyas","tag-jamychal-green","tag-jason-clark","tag-sec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19903","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=19903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19904,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19903\/revisions\/19904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}