{"id":20870,"date":"2012-01-06T10:39:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T15:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=20870"},"modified":"2012-01-06T10:39:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T15:39:47","slug":"horizon-league-basketball-butler-bulldogs-vs-wright-state-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/horizon-league-basketball-butler-bulldogs-vs-wright-state-raiders-20870\/","title":{"rendered":"Horizon League Basketball: Butler Bulldogs vs. Wright State Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Butler Bulldogs at Wright State Raiders
\nFriday, 1\/6\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Butler -2
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Butler -2
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 116.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 115.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Butler Bulldogs have trailed at halftime in 11 of their 15 games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Butler will square off against a team sitting atop the Horizon League standings Friday night inside the Nutter Center in Dayton, OH.\u00a0 The Bulldogs have won three consecutive games for the first time this season, coming off a 54-50 victory over Wisconsin-Milwaukee as four-point home favorites.\u00a0 Total players will find that the program has gone \u2018under\u2019 the total in three of its last four games.\u00a0 The team has trailed at halftime in 11 of 15 games this season.\u00a0 Butler is 16-25 ATS against conference foes the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs lead this particular series, 24-16, winning eight of the past nine meetings.\u00a0 Butler tallied a 71-63 victory as eight-point home favorites in the last matchup, but fell on this particular court by five points on Jan. 16, 2011.\u00a0 The team has really struggled to score this year, as not one of the five starters from its last contest came in averaging double-figures in scoring.\u00a0 Sophomore center Andrew Smith leads the way in averaging 9.8 points per game.<\/p>\n

Wright State has won four consecutive games and picked up a two-game sweep in its recent road trip, as the team has covered its last four contests.\u00a0 The Raiders played a very challenging non-conference schedule, facing off against the likes of Cincinnati, Florida and Ohio State.\u00a0 The program hasn\u2019t had a losing record since 2005-06, which signifies that other league members should be on the lookout for this squad down the stretch.\u00a0 Wright State is 0-5 ATS versus good defensive teams that allow 64 points or less after the 15-game mark of the season.<\/p>\n

The Raiders have been very pleased in how their youthful roster has responded during league play after taking on some of college basketball\u2019s best teams.\u00a0 Wright State is led offensively by junior guard Julius Mays, who is averaging 12.1 points, but has been a bit banged up from the start of the year.\u00a0 He has been battling back and elbow injuries from a fall that occurred during the Dec. 20th contest against the Idaho Vandals.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Raiders due to their 8-2 ATS mark when playing at home in this series, while the Bulldogs are 2-9-2 ATS in their last 13 games.<\/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":"

Butler Bulldogs at Wright State Raiders Friday, 1\/6\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Butler -2 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Butler -2 Opening Total:\u00a0 116.5 Current Total:\u00a0 115.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Butler will square off against a team sitting atop the Horizon League standings Friday night inside the Nutter Center in Dayton, OH.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[5790,695,4085,6315,6316,6128],"class_list":["post-20870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-andrew-smith","tag-butler-bulldogs","tag-horizon-league","tag-julius-mays","tag-nutter-center","tag-wright-state-raiders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20870","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=20870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20872,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20870\/revisions\/20872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}