{"id":20574,"date":"2011-12-27T15:17:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T20:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=20574"},"modified":"2011-12-27T15:17:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T20:17:50","slug":"big-east-conference-basketball-providence-friars-vs-st-johns-red-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/big-east-conference-basketball-providence-friars-vs-st-johns-red-storm-20574\/","title":{"rendered":"Big East Conference Basketball: Providence Friars vs. St. John’s Red Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Providence Friars at St. John\u2019s Red Storm
\nTuesday, 12\/27\/11, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 St. John\u2019s -1
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 St. John\u2019s -1
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 135.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 133.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Providence Friars are led by a trio of guards offensively<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Providence will put its seven-game win streak on the line Tuesday night and has won 12 of the last 15 contests against St. John\u2019s dating back to 2001.\u00a0 The Friars are opening Big East Conference play on the road for the 10th time in 12 seasons.\u00a0 Playing away from home hasn\u2019t been that bad for this squad, posting true road wins over South Carolina, Fairfield and Rhode Island.\u00a0 Providence is 11-6 ATS in December the past two-plus seasons, while the \u2018over\u2019 is 12-5 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Friars will be looking to earn their fourth consecutive true road win of the season, last accomplishing such a feat during the 2003-04 season.\u00a0 A trio of Providence guards is leading the offense, with junior Vincent Council leading the way in averaging 16.9 points per game.\u00a0 Gerard Coleman is averaging 15.8 points and Bryce Cotton ranks third on the team in scoring 15.7 points per game.\u00a0 The program may be catching St. John\u2019s at the right time with one of the shallowest rosters in the country and head coach Steve Lavin still recovering from a surgical procedure.<\/p>\n

St. John\u2019s will open up conference play in hosting Providence inside the Carnesecca Arena.\u00a0 The Red Storm are 6-1 at home and 5-1 on campus this season.\u00a0 Lavin\u2019s teams are 6-2 all-time in conference openers, including an 81-71 win at West Virginia on Dec. 29, 2010.\u00a0 The team has bounced back from dropping five of six games and enters on a two-game win streak, but one of those victories came against a non-lined opponent in Texas Pan American.\u00a0 St. John\u2019s is 3-2 ATS as a home favorite of three points or less the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Red Storm received an early Christmas present on Dec. 21 as rookie forward and Top 100 prospect Amir Garrett was declared eligible to join the squad.\u00a0 He played 15 minutes and contributed three points and two rebounds.\u00a0 \u201cThey went through a lot, playing with six people. That\u2019s going to be hard for any team,\u201d commented Garrett about the team\u2019s limited roster.\u00a0 St. John\u2019s is 1-4 ATS as a favorite so far during the 2011-12 campaign.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Friars due to their 5-2 ATS mark in the last seven meetings, while the Red Storm are 3-8 ATS overall.<\/p>\n

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Providence Friars at St. John\u2019s Red Storm Tuesday, 12\/27\/11, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 St. John\u2019s -1 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 St. John\u2019s -1 Opening Total:\u00a0 135.5 Current Total:\u00a0 133.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Providence will put its seven-game win streak on the line Tuesday night and has won 12 of the last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[6243,2497,6242,4267,4205,1386,6058],"class_list":["post-20574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-amir-garrett","tag-big-east-conference","tag-carnesecca-arena","tag-providence-friars","tag-st-johns-red-storm","tag-steve-lavin","tag-vincent-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20574","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=20574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20577,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20574\/revisions\/20577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}