{"id":20946,"date":"2012-01-09T11:45:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T16:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=20946"},"modified":"2012-01-09T11:41:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T16:41:21","slug":"cincinnati-vs-georgetown-big-east-conference-rivals-face-off-monday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/cincinnati-vs-georgetown-big-east-conference-rivals-face-off-monday-night-20946\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati vs. Georgetown: Big East Conference Rivals Face Off Monday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cincinnati Bearcats at No. 9 Georgetown Hoyas
\nMonday, 1\/9\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Georgetown -7
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Georgetown -6.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 124.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 124.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Georgetown Hoyas have failed to cover the spread in nine of their last 10 Big East Conference games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cincinnati has won its last five Big East Conference road games dating back to last season, while also winning seven of the last eight.\u00a0 The Bearcats are coming off a disappointing 57-55 defeat to the St. John\u2019s Red Storm as 12.5-point home favorites on Saturday.\u00a0 \u201cThe reason we lost, we weren\u2019t ready to play,\u201d commented Bearcats head coach Mick Cronin.\u00a0 \u201cWe played as individuals.\u201d\u00a0 Sophomore guard Sean Kilpatrick is averaging a team-high 16.9 points and has scored 20 or more points four times this season.\u00a0 Cincinnati is 6-13 ATS after suffering a loss versus a conference rival.<\/p>\n

The Bearcats won both meetings against the Hoyas last season, but have split the eight all-time games in the series.\u00a0 Cincinnati is hoping that Yancy Gates can continue to build on his recent play since coming off a suspension, combining for 16 points and 15 rebounds off the bench the last two games.\u00a0 The team\u2019s starting five has four players averaging double figures in scoring.<\/p>\n

Georgetown enters today\u2019s game with a 13-2 record and will look to bounce back from a 74-62 loss to the West Virginia Mountaineers as two-point road underdogs.\u00a0 The Hoyas have actually dropped their last three games versus the spread.\u00a0 Offensively, the team will need to shoot a lot better than it did against tonight\u2019s opponent in two meetings a year ago, as it was limited to 28.7 percent shooting in dropping both games.\u00a0 Georgetown is 4-2 ATS as a favorite this year, but 1-6 ATS after failing to cover the spread in three or more consecutive games the last two-plus campaigns.<\/p>\n

The Hoyas rank second in the Big East and 14th nationally in allowing just 59.1 points per game, while scoring 73.4 points a game.\u00a0 Georgetown is 31st among all major college basketball programs in shooting 47.5 percent from the field.\u00a0 Senior guard Jason Clark leads the team in scoring with 15.5 points per game, followed closely by junior forward Hollis Thompson pouring in 14.3 points a contest.\u00a0 Georgetown has used the same starting lineup through 15 games of the season, as that group has accounted for 74.3 percent of the team\u2019s scoring.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Bearcats due to their 4-1 ATS mark in the last five meetings, while the Hoyas are 1-9 ATS versus conference foes.<\/p>\n

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Cincinnati Bearcats at No. 9 Georgetown Hoyas Monday, 1\/9\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Georgetown -7 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Georgetown -6.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 124.5 Current Total:\u00a0 124.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Cincinnati has won its last five Big East Conference road games dating back to last season, while also winning seven of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[2497,1152,1341,5834,6130,5985],"class_list":["post-20946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-east-conference","tag-cincinnati-bearcats","tag-georgetown-hoyas","tag-jason-clark","tag-sean-kilpatrick","tag-yancy-gates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20946","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=20946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20947,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20946\/revisions\/20947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}