{"id":20446,"date":"2011-12-21T22:09:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T03:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=20446"},"modified":"2011-12-21T22:09:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T03:09:57","slug":"florida-state-vs-florida-college-basketball-in-state-rivals-face-off-thursday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/florida-state-vs-florida-college-basketball-in-state-rivals-face-off-thursday-night-20446\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida State vs. Florida: College Basketball In-State Rivals Face Off Thursday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida State Seminoles at No. 12 Florida Gators
\nThursday, 12\/22\/11, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Florida -8
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Florida -8
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 137
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 136
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>Florida State has won three of its last five games against Florida and travels to Gainesville on a three-game winning streak.\u00a0 The Seminoles are led by their defense once again this year, holding opponents to 34.2 percent shooting, which is actually lower than their 36.3 percent mark from a year ago.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that most of the program\u2019s most impressive work has occurred in Tallahassee, posting a 1-3 record on the road.\u00a0 Florida State is 0-4 ATS as a road underdog of 6.5 to 9 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Seminoles are led offensively by All-American candidate Michael Snaer, who has scored in double figures in a career-high seven consecutive games.\u00a0 He is averaging 14.0 points and 4.7 rebounds a game.\u00a0 Florida State is the third winningest program in the ACC in the last four years and has averaged 23.3 wins per season over that span.\u00a0 As mentioned before, the team\u2019s defensive effort is spectacular, holding 109 of its last 111 opponents below 50 percent shooting from the field.<\/p>\n

Florida is 9-6 against Florida State under head coach Billy Donovan and is going for its 12th consecutive win inside the O\u2019Connell Center, posting a 5-0 mark inside the venue already during the 2011-12 campaign.\u00a0 The Gators are scoring 86.1 points per game, which has been made possible by averaging 11.2 three-point makes a contest.\u00a0 All five starters scored in double figures in the team\u2019s last effort, handing Mississippi Valley State an 82-54 defeat.\u00a0 Florida shot a season-best 83.3 percent from the charity stripe and is 11-17 ATS at home the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Gators are more than a three-point shot, out-rebounding their opponents in 10 of 11 games.\u00a0 Florida will look for junior guard Kenny Boynton to lead the way offensively, averaging 18.7 points per game.\u00a0 He comes in as the second-leading scorer in the SEC and has gone over the 20-point mark six times this season.\u00a0 Senior Erving Walker joins him in the backcourt and both were named preseason second-team conference selections.\u00a0 He will look to have a better game against the Seminoles than his previous three tries, averaging just 8.0 points on 30 percent shooting.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Gators due to their 3-0 ATS mark against ACC opponents, while the Seminoles are 7-12 ATS as an underdog.<\/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":"

Florida State Seminoles at No. 12 Florida Gators Thursday, 12\/22\/11, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Florida -8 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Florida -8 Opening Total:\u00a0 137 Current Total:\u00a0 136 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Florida State has won three of its last five games against Florida and travels to Gainesville on a three-game winning […]<\/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":[387,3881,499,1112,5741,5850,6211],"class_list":["post-20446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-billy-donovan","tag-florida-gators","tag-florida-state-seminoles","tag-kenny-boynton","tag-michael-snaer","tag-oconnell-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20446","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=20446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20447,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20446\/revisions\/20447"}],"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=20446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}