{"id":20395,"date":"2011-12-20T10:30:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T15:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=20395"},"modified":"2011-12-20T09:31:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T14:31:53","slug":"butler-vs-gonzaga-college-basketball-mid-major-foes-square-off-tuesday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/butler-vs-gonzaga-college-basketball-mid-major-foes-square-off-tuesday-night-20395\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler vs. Gonzaga: College Basketball Mid-Major Foes Square Off Tuesday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Butler Bulldogs at Gonzaga Bulldogs
\nTuesday, 12\/20\/11, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Gonzaga -12.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Gonzaga -12.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 134
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 134
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker
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Gonzaga and Butler will face off Tuesday night inside the McCarthey Athletic Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Butler will need to regroup emotionally after picking up a 67-65 win over the Purdue Boilermakers as 8.5-point neutral-site underdogs.\u00a0 The Bulldogs have also gone \u2018over\u2019 the total in four of their last five games versus lined competition.\u00a0 Tuesday night will be just the second meeting between the two programs, with Butler coming away with a 79-71 win in the 2006 NIT Season Tip-Off at Madison Square Garden as five-point underdogs.\u00a0 Over the last two-plus seasons, the program is 11-16 ATS on the road, while the \u2018under\u2019 is 14-12 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs will be playing their first-ever game in the state of Washington tonight, while playing two games on the West Coast that will finish up with a game against Stanford in Palo Alto, CA.\u00a0 Butler has faced a tough schedule over the last five contests, with those teams possessing a combined record of 40-10 during the 2011-12 season thus far.\u00a0 Bench scoring proved to be the difference against the Boilermakers, outscoring them by a 36-9 margin.\u00a0 Junior Andrew Smith was named Horizon League Player of the Week for his game-winning tip-in with just a second remaining on the clock.<\/p>\n

Gonzaga will be hosting this mid-major clash inside the McCarthey Athletic Center and comes off a 71-60 win over the Arizona Wildcats as 4.5-point neutral-site favorites.\u00a0 The Bulldogs only two losses this year have come against a pair of Big Ten Conference foes, dropping an 82-75 decision to Illinois that was followed by a 74-67 defeat to Michigan State.\u00a0 The program is a dominating 93-7 inside tonight\u2019s facility since it opened during the 2004-05 season.\u00a0 Gonzaga is 13-15 ATS at home the last two-plus campaigns.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs have been led recently by junior forward Elias Harris, who was named the West Coast Conference\u2019s player of the week after averaging 18.5 points and 9.0 rebounds.\u00a0 Gonzaga was picked to win the conference by coaches during the preseason for a 12th straight time.\u00a0 Robert Sacre is a player to watch on tonight\u2019s broadcast, leading the team in averaging 14.9 points per game, while also collecting 7.2 boards a contest.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back Gonzaga due to the program\u2019s 7-3-1 ATS mark as a home favorite of 7 to 12.5 points, while Butler is 1-6-1 ATS versus non-conference foes.<\/p>\n

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Butler Bulldogs at Gonzaga Bulldogs Tuesday, 12\/20\/11, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Gonzaga -12.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Gonzaga -12.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 134 Current Total:\u00a0 134 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Butler will need to regroup emotionally after picking up a 67-65 win over the Purdue Boilermakers as 8.5-point neutral-site underdogs.\u00a0 The Bulldogs have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[5790,695,5744,1202,4085,5729,6003,3888],"class_list":["post-20395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-andrew-smith","tag-butler-bulldogs","tag-cbb","tag-gonzaga-bulldogs","tag-horizon-league","tag-mccarthey-athletic-center","tag-robert-sacre","tag-west-coast-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20395","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=20395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20397,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20395\/revisions\/20397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}