{"id":20772,"date":"2012-01-02T11:55:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T16:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=20772"},"modified":"2012-01-02T11:56:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T16:56:06","slug":"college-basketball-odds-virginia-cavaliers-vs-lsu-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-odds-virginia-cavaliers-vs-lsu-tigers-20772\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Odds: Virginia Cavaliers vs. LSU Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 24 Virginia Cavaliers at LSU Tigers
\nMonday, 1\/2\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV: ESPN3
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Virginia -2.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Virginia -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 111.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 111.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Virginia Cavaliers are 0-12 SU all-time against SEC opponents on the road<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Virginia concludes its non-conference schedule with a trip to the Pete Maravich Center in Baton Rouge, LA, seeking its first 11-game win streak since 1992-93.\u00a0 The Cavaliers are a terrible 0-12 all-time against SEC teams on the road.\u00a0 Head coach Tony Bennett wasn\u2019t very happy with this team\u2019s performance in tallying a 57-50 win over the Towson Tigers Friday night.\u00a0 \u201cIf we play liked this in conference play, no, we\u2019re not ready,\u201d he stated after the game.\u00a0 Virginia is 12-8 ATS on the road the past two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers are led by senior forward Mike Scott, who is the ACC\u2019s active leader in points, rebounds and double-doubles.\u00a0 He\u2019s currently averaging 16.3 points and 9.0 rebounds per game.\u00a0 Dating back to last season, Virginia has won four consecutive true road games, which is the longest such streak since the 1994-95 season.\u00a0 It\u2019s all about defense under Bennett\u2019s direction, ranking second nationally in giving up just 50.3 points per game.\u00a0 The Cavaliers are 22-2 when scoring at least 70 points during his time on the sidelines.<\/p>\n

LSU has won seven consecutive games and has held all of those opponents to under 60 points.\u00a0 The Tigers will be seeking their first-ever victory in this series, dropping the first two meetings.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s my responsibility to make sure that they understand that yes, we\u2019ve done a good job, but here\u2019s the next game,\u201d stated Tigers head coach Trent Johnson.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is averaging 69.1 points per game, producing a scoring margin of +8.7 at this point of the season.\u00a0 LSU is 3-12 ATS in January the past two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Tigers have produced 10 wins entering the new year for the first time since the 2008-09 team.\u00a0 LSU has really regained a home-court advantage inside tonight\u2019s venue under Johnson, producing a 33-6 mark in his four years against non-conference opponents.\u00a0 There\u2019s some hope that sophomore guard Andre Stringer will be back on the court for this affair, missing the last five games due to fainting in practice in early December.\u00a0 He\u2019s averaging a team-best 12.1 points and is listed as questionable after being cleared to practice again.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Cavaliers due to their 21-8 ATS mark in their last 29 games, while the Tigers are 1-4 ATS when playing on Monday.<\/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":"

No. 24 Virginia Cavaliers at LSU Tigers Monday, 1\/2\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV: ESPN3 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Virginia -2.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Virginia -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 111.5 Current Total:\u00a0 111.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Virginia concludes its non-conference schedule with a trip to the Pete Maravich Center in Baton Rouge, LA, seeking its first 11-game […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[387,6090,498,6039,6289,739,761,6177,2977],"class_list":["post-20772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-andre-stringer","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-mike-scott","tag-pete-maravich-center","tag-sec","tag-tony-bennett","tag-trent-johnson","tag-virginia-cavaliers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20772","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=20772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20773,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20772\/revisions\/20773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}