{"id":20236,"date":"2011-12-14T09:42:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T14:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=20236"},"modified":"2011-12-14T09:42:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T14:42:53","slug":"ncaa-basketball-picks-cincinnati-bearcats-vs-wright-state-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-picks-cincinnati-bearcats-vs-wright-state-raiders-20236\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Picks: Cincinnati Bearcats vs. Wright State Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cincinnati Bearcats at Wright State Raiders
\nWednesday, 12\/14\/11, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Cincinnati -4.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Cincinnati -4.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 111
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 110.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Cincinnati Bearcats will be dealing with numerous suspensions Wednesday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cincinnati will be dealing with some suspensions off its 76-53 loss to Xavier last time out, as Yancy Gates, Octavius Ellis and Cheikh Mbodj were each suspended six games, while Ge\u2019Lawn Guyn will miss a single contest.\u00a0 The Bearcats led the Big East Conference in scoring defense a year ago, allowing 59.6 points per game, but that number is even lower at 55.6 through eight games during the 2011-12 campaign.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that its non-conference schedule isn\u2019t exactly the Big East.\u00a0 Cincinnati is 16-20 ATS as a favorite over the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Bearcats and Raiders have played one common opponent this year, both handing Miami (Ohio) a defeat.\u00a0 Cincinnati is 7-0 all-time against Wright State, but all seven of those were played in Cincinnati, including a 77-69 victory last year as 11-point home favorites.\u00a0 The four suspended players combined to account for 34.8 percent of the team\u2019s rebounding and 31.3 percent of the team\u2019s scoring.\u00a0 Redshirt-sophomore guard Sean Kilpatrick will need to step it up on the floor, as he leads the entire roster in averaging 14.5 points per game, scoring in double figures in seven of eight games.<\/p>\n

Wright State has alternated wins and losses over its last four games, picking up a 51-49 win over the Miami (OH) RedHawks as six-point road underdogs last time out.\u00a0 It served as the team\u2019s first road win over the season and the program will now play four straight non-conference home games.\u00a0 The Raiders are led in scoring by junior guard Julis Mays, who is averaging 10.2 points per game, leading the team in making 13 shots from beyond the arc.\u00a0 Wright State is 3-4 ATS on the season and the \u2018under\u2019 is 4-3 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Raiders possess a very youthful roster with 11 of 15 players being freshmen or sophomores, as the team is coming off a 19-14 season from a year ago.\u00a0 Wright State is allowing 60.0 points per game and allowing opponents to shoot 42.7 percent from the field.\u00a0 Those particular numbers drop when playing at home, giving up 54.0 points and holding opponents to 40.6 percent shooting from the floor.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Bearcats due to their 4-1 ATS mark as a road favorite of 6.5 points or less, while the Raiders are 1-5-1 ATS after picking up a straight-up victory.<\/p>\n

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Cincinnati Bearcats at Wright State Raiders Wednesday, 12\/14\/11, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Cincinnati -4.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Cincinnati -4.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 111 Current Total:\u00a0 110.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Cincinnati will be dealing with some suspensions off its 76-53 loss to Xavier last time out, as Yancy Gates, Octavius Ellis and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[2497,5744,1152,6129,6130,6128,5985],"class_list":["post-20236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-east-conference","tag-cbb","tag-cincinnati-bearcats","tag-julis-mays","tag-sean-kilpatrick","tag-wright-state-raiders","tag-yancy-gates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20236","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=20236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20237,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20236\/revisions\/20237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}