{"id":20393,"date":"2011-12-20T09:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T14:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=20393"},"modified":"2011-12-20T09:01:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T14:01:01","slug":"ncaa-basketball-preview-old-dominion-monarchs-vs-richmond-spiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-preview-old-dominion-monarchs-vs-richmond-spiders-20393\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Preview: Old Dominion Monarchs vs. Richmond Spiders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Old Dominion Monarchs at Richmond Spiders
\nTuesday, 12\/20\/11, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Richmond -4.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Richmond -4.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 119
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 119
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Richmond Spiders will look to snap a three-game losing streak Tuesday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Old Dominion comes in off a 61-53 defeat against the Central Florida Knights as 5.5-point road underdogs, as it hopes to snap a two-game losing streak.\u00a0 The Monarchs defeated the Spiders, 77-70, at the Constant Center last year as 4.5-point home favorites, continuing a string of six consecutive victories by the home team in this particular series.\u00a0 Old Dominion is 0-3 ATS as a road underdog of 3.5 to 6 points, while the \u2018under\u2019 has cashed in all of those games.<\/p>\n

The Monarchs are led by senior guard Kent Bazemore offensively, averaging 12.0 points per game.\u00a0 He had a great conference opener against Northeastern, scoring 21 points and grabbing nine rebounds.\u00a0 Senior forward Chris Cooper is also a player to watch and is becoming a double-double machine, leading the CAA with five of them.\u00a0 Old Dominion will be looking for its first win in Richmond since the 1996-97 campaign.<\/p>\n

Richmond has lost three-straight games for the first time in the regular season since January\/February 2009, entering off a 79-65 defeat against Bucknell.\u00a0 The Spiders have played just one home games in the last month, posting a 3-1 record inside the Robins Center.\u00a0 Snapping the losing streak is expected by many due to the team\u2019s 16-2 record inside the venue versus non-conference opponents over the last three seasons.\u00a0 One thing to watch as the game goes along is the disparity at the free throw line, as the squad is averaging 22.2 free throws per game, which is much higher than last year\u2019s 17.2 figure.\u00a0 Richmond is 2-0 ATS as a favorite this season.<\/p>\n

The Spiders were expected to struggle a bit this year after graduating the winningest class in school history, with four starters leaving the program.\u00a0 Richmond\u2019s troubles start and end on defense, allowing three consecutive opponents to break the 70-point barrier, something that happened just eight times the entire 2010-11 campaign.\u00a0 Offensively, the backcourt could be something special as the season wears on, with Cedrick Lindsay averaging 13.0 points and 4.3 assists to run the show at point guard.\u00a0 Junior Darien Brothers is the only returning starter and is currently averaging 10.5 points per game.\u00a0 A player to watch off the bench is freshman Kendall Anthony, who leads the team in scoring 15.0 points per game.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Spiders due to their 11-1 ATS mark as a favorite, while the Monarchs are 4-10 ATS as a road underdog of 6.5 points or less.<\/p>\n

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Old Dominion Monarchs at Richmond Spiders Tuesday, 12\/20\/11, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 N\/A Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Richmond -4.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Richmond -4.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 119 Current Total:\u00a0 119 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Old Dominion comes in off a 61-53 defeat against the Central Florida Knights as 5.5-point road underdogs, as it hopes to snap […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[6182,6180,6183,6184,4605,4648,6181],"class_list":["post-20393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-cedrick-lindsay","tag-chris-cooper","tag-darien-brothers","tag-kendall-anthony","tag-old-dominion-monarchs","tag-richmond-spiders","tag-robins-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20393","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=20393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20394,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20393\/revisions\/20394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}