{"id":20837,"date":"2012-01-05T11:43:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T16:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=20837"},"modified":"2012-01-05T11:43:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T16:43:45","slug":"big-ten-conference-basketball-purdue-boilermakers-vs-penn-state-nittany-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/big-ten-conference-basketball-purdue-boilermakers-vs-penn-state-nittany-lions-20837\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Ten Conference Basketball: Purdue Boilermakers vs. Penn State Nittany Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Purdue Boilermakers at Penn State Nittany Lions
\nThursday, 1\/5\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Purdue -7
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Purdue -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 126
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 125
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Purdue Boilermakers are led by senior forward Robbie Hummel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Purdue heads east in search of its fourth-straight win and 3-0 start to Big Ten Conference play when taking on Penn State in the Bryce Jordan Center.\u00a0 The Boilermakers have won 27 true road games since the beginning of the 2007-08 season, tied for the most in the Big Ten over that period of time.\u00a0 One of the strength of this squad is taking care of the basketball, ranking third nationally in turning the ball over just 9.7 times per game.\u00a0 Purdue is 3-1 ATS as a road favorite of 6.5 to 9 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Boilermakers have received some big contributions from junior Kelsey Barlow over the last three games, averaging 12.0 points and shooting 65 percent from the field.\u00a0 Senior forward Robbie Hummel is the leader of the team, averaging 16.5 points in playing 30.2 minutes per night.\u00a0 Purdue owns a 26-10 advantage in the all-time series, including a 10-8 mark when playing in University Park.\u00a0 During the Matt Painter era, the program is 10-3 against tonight\u2019s opponent.<\/p>\n

Penn State dropped both games on its two-game road trip against the Michigan Wolverines and Northwestern Wildcats, while also failing to cover the spread in those contests.\u00a0 The Nittany Lions are 6-2 at home this season and has actually out-rebounded 12 of its 15 opponents this year.\u00a0 Junior guard Tim Frazier is the main threat on this squad, averaging 17.3 points and 5.6 rebounds per game.\u00a0 He has tallied a Big Ten-best six 20-point games this season.\u00a0 Penn State is 1-4 ATS as an underdog this year and all six games have gone \u2018under\u2019 the total in that particular situation.<\/p>\n

The Nittany Lions suffered two losses in the series a year ago, including an 83-68 defeat as six-point home underdogs on Jan. 5, 2011.\u00a0 Frazier is the only major college basketball player that\u2019s averaging 17-plus points and 6.5-plus assists per game.\u00a0 Jermaine Marshall has become another offensive weapon, scoring in double-digits in seven of the last eight games.\u00a0 Penn State has still had offensive problems throughout, scoring fewer than 60 points in seven of 15 games this year.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Boilermakers due to their 7-3 ATS mark in the last 10 meetings, while the Nittany Lions are 2-5 ATS as an underdog of 7 to 12.5 points.<\/p>\n

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Purdue Boilermakers at Penn State Nittany Lions Thursday, 1\/5\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 N\/A Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Purdue -7 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Purdue -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 126 Current Total:\u00a0 125 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Purdue heads east in search of its fourth-straight win and 3-0 start to Big Ten Conference play when taking on Penn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3442,6305,497,1295,5797,6304],"class_list":["post-20837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-jermaine-marshall","tag-penn-state-nittany-lions","tag-purdue-boilermakers","tag-robbie-hummel","tag-tim-frazier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20837","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=20837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20838,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20837\/revisions\/20838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}