{"id":20059,"date":"2011-12-06T21:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T02:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=20059"},"modified":"2011-12-06T21:11:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T02:11:01","slug":"college-basketball-picks-arizona-wildcats-vs-florida-gators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-arizona-wildcats-vs-florida-gators-20059\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Arizona Wildcats vs. Florida Gators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arizona Wildcats at No. 12 Florida Gators
\nWednesday, 12\/7\/11, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Arizona -11
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Arizona -11.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 143.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 143.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Florida Gators guard Kenny Boynton is the team's leading scorer early on<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Arizona hits the road for Gainesville, FL, and will face its toughest test to date, taking on the 12th-ranked Florida Gators Wednesday night.\u00a0 \u201cThis program is all about having big games, we play tough teams day in and day out,\u201d commented Wildcats forward Solomon Hill.\u00a0 \u201cThis is what is going to make our future.\u201d\u00a0 Watching the shooting percentage for both teams will likely tell the story, as the Wildcats are 4-0 this year and 35-3 in the Sean Miller era when outshooting the opposition.\u00a0 Arizona is 0-2 ATS versus SEC opponents the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats tallied an unimpressive 53-39 win over the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks last time out as 21-point home favorites, as Hill led all scorers with 15 points.\u00a0 Arizona will be meeting Florida for the third time, winning the first meeting in 2001, while dropping a 78-77 decision in 2003.\u00a0 Both games were played on a neutral court.\u00a0 Despite being one of the proudest programs in the country, Arizona is just 13-23 all-time against teams from the Southeastern Conference, but 5-6 in the last 11 games played since the 1999-2000 season.<\/p>\n

Florida will be hosting a Pac-12 Conference opponent for the first time inside the Stephen C. O\u2019Connell Center.\u00a0 The Gators are 10-9 all-time against teams that make up the conference, including wins in seven straight.\u00a0 Head coach Billy Donovan has made things tough for his squad early against some major opponents, as both losses came against the Ohio State Buckeyes and Syracuse Orange on the road.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve played two road games against two legitimate top-five teams,\u201d stated Donovan this week.\u00a0 Florida is 11-16 ATS at home the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Gators will be looking for their 10th straight home victory dating back to last season, posting a 3-0 record inside Wednesday night\u2019s venue already.\u00a0 Florida is led offensively by the play of guard Kenny Boynton, who is averaging 19.0 points per game, coming off a 22-point performance against Syracuse.\u00a0 Offensively, the team ranks fourth nationally and first in the SEC in averaging 87.6 points per game.\u00a0 The roster also crashes the boards, out-rebounding six of seven opponents.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Gators due to their 6-1 ATS mark versus Pac-12 foes, while the Wildcats are 1-4 ATS versus SEC 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":"

Arizona Wildcats at No. 12 Florida Gators Wednesday, 12\/7\/11, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Arizona -11 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Arizona -11.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 143.5 Current Total:\u00a0 143.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Arizona hits the road for Gainesville, FL, and will face its toughest test to date, taking on the 12th-ranked Florida Gators […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[578,3881,499,5741,5263,4102,739,6040],"class_list":["post-20059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-arizona-wildcats","tag-billy-donovan","tag-florida-gators","tag-kenny-boynton","tag-pac-12-conference","tag-sean-miller","tag-sec","tag-solomon-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20059","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=20059"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20062,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20059\/revisions\/20062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}