{"id":20927,"date":"2012-01-08T10:02:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T15:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=20927"},"modified":"2012-01-08T10:02:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T15:02:02","slug":"college-basketball-picks-indiana-hoosiers-vs-penn-state-nittany-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-indiana-hoosiers-vs-penn-state-nittany-lions-20927\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Indiana Hoosiers vs. Penn State Nittany Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 12 Indiana Hoosiers at Penn State Nittany Lions
\nSunday, 1\/8\/12, 12:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -7
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -6.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 130
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 129.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Indiana Hoosiers will play six of their next nine games on the road<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Indiana is coming off home wins against Ohio State and Michigan, heading out on the road for the first time since an 80-65 defeat to the Michigan State Spartans as six-point underdogs on Dec. 28.\u00a0 \u201cWe have done a good job of preparing only for the task at hand,\u201d stated Hoosiers head coach Tom Crean.\u00a0 \u201cI think that is a by-product of a maturing, player-led team.\u201d\u00a0 The program will play six of its next nine games away from home, posting a perfect 11-0 mark inside Assembly Hall.\u00a0 Indiana is 6-1 ATS as a favorite this season.<\/p>\n

The Hoosiers are shooting 50.5 percent from the field and 45.6 percent from three-point range.\u00a0 Freshman Cody Zeller is the main player offensively, averaging 14.5 points and 6.5 rebounds per game, being named Big Ten Conference Freshman of the Week four times.\u00a0 Indiana loves to make things happen on the perimeter, especially with sharp shooter Jordan Hulls, who has hit 32-of-58 attempts from beyond the arc.\u00a0 Indiana shot a season-high 63.6 percent from three-point range in its 73-71 win over the Wolverines as 7.5-point home favorites last time out.<\/p>\n

Penn State is certainly coming off its best performance of the season in capturing a 65-45 win over the Purdue Boilermakers as 7.5-point home underdogs.\u00a0 The Nittany Lions dropped five consecutive games against the spread before that contest.\u00a0 Junior point guard Tim Frazier is enjoying a fantastic season, averaging 17.1 points and 6.8 assists per game in playing 35.8 minutes a night.\u00a0 \u201cTim is playing as well as anyone in the league and he does a great job of getting in the lane as he looks to score or facilitating for others,\u201d stated Crean in preparing for this particular opponent.\u00a0 Penn State is 1-4 ATS as a home underdog of 6.5 to 9 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Nittany Lions have won six of the last seven games in this series, including a 61-55 victory as five-point favorites on March 10.\u00a0 That particular contest was played in the first-round of the Big Ten tournament.\u00a0 Frazier ranks first in the conference in assists and third in scoring.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Hoosiers due to their 8-2 ATS mark in their last 10 games overall, while the Nittany Lions are 1-4 ATS as an underdog.<\/p>\n

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No. 12 Indiana Hoosiers at Penn State Nittany Lions Sunday, 1\/8\/12, 12:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 N\/A Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -7 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -6.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 130 Current Total:\u00a0 129.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Indiana is coming off home wins against Ohio State and Michigan, heading out on the road for the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3442,5922,2485,497,6304],"class_list":["post-20927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-cody-zeller","tag-indiana-hoosiers","tag-penn-state-nittany-lions","tag-tim-frazier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20927","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=20927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20929,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20927\/revisions\/20929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}