{"id":20973,"date":"2012-01-11T13:03:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T18:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=20973"},"modified":"2012-01-11T13:03:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T18:03:40","slug":"sec-basketball-preview-lsu-tigers-vs-alabama-crimson-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/sec-basketball-preview-lsu-tigers-vs-alabama-crimson-tide-20973\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC Basketball Preview: LSU Tigers vs. Alabama Crimson Tide"},"content":{"rendered":"

LSU Tigers at Alabama Crimson Tide
\nWednesday, 1\/11\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Alabama -11.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Alabama -11.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 117
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 118.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Alabama Crimson Tide are one of the best defensive teams in the country<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LSU has held 11 of 15 opponents under 60 points in scoring and has won eight of nine coming into Wednesday night\u2019s Southeastern Conference showdown.\u00a0 The Tigers have more depth this season than last, but injuries are starting to pile up on the roster.\u00a0 \u201cI thought going into this year – that we were going to be in a situation that if we played well, we would be able to withstand an injury or two,\u201d stated Tigers head coach Trent Johnson.\u00a0 Offensively, the team exploded in tallying 81 points in a victory over the Mississippi Rebels, going \u2018over\u2019 the total for the first time since Nov. 23, 2011.\u00a0 LSU is 5-1 ATS as an underdog this season.<\/p>\n

The Tigers have been very happy with the recent play of Iowa State transfer Justin Hamilton, as the junior center earned SEC Player of the Week honors in combining to score 44 points and grabbing 25 rebounds in two games last week.\u00a0 He currently ranks 16th in the conference in scoring and eighth in rebounding.\u00a0 LSU is averaging 68.7 points per game and allowing just 59.8 points.<\/p>\n

Alabama returns to Coleman Coliseum to host LSU in its first home conference game of the season and also try and pick up a sweep over one of its biggest rivals this week.\u00a0 The Crimson Tide football team beat the Tigers to capture the BCS National Championship Game on Monday night in New Orleans.\u00a0 The program won both of its road games against Georgia Tech and Georgia last week, while going \u2018over\u2019 the total in both contests.\u00a0 Alabama is 3-0 ATS as a home favorite of 9.5 to 12 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Crimson Tide defense is 10th nationally in allowing just 55.9 points per game, allowing their last four opponents to score just 53.5 points per contest.\u00a0 Alabama\u2019s opponents have converted just 36.7 percent of their shots during the 2011-12 campaign.\u00a0 Tony Mitchell is the player to watch offensively, leading the team in scoring 15.2 points per game on 49.5 percent shooting.\u00a0 He also paces the squad in grabbing 7.2 rebounds per game.\u00a0 Senior forward Jamychal Green is another player to watch on the court, averaging 14.7 points and 7.1 rebounds in just 27.8 minutes per game.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Crimson Tide due to the favorite being 6-1 ATS in this series, while the Tigers are 1-6 ATS when playing in Tuscaloosa.<\/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":"

LSU Tigers at Alabama Crimson Tide Wednesday, 1\/11\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Alabama -11.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Alabama -11.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 117 Current Total:\u00a0 118.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker LSU has held 11 of 15 opponents under 60 points in scoring and has won eight of nine coming into Wednesday night\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[462,6332,6334,5978,6092,498,739,6169],"class_list":["post-20973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-bcs-national-championship-game","tag-coleman-coliseum","tag-jamychal-green","tag-justin-hamilton","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-sec","tag-tony-mitchell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20973","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=20973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20975,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20973\/revisions\/20975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}