{"id":21021,"date":"2012-01-13T11:13:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T16:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21021"},"modified":"2012-01-13T11:13:20","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T16:13:20","slug":"college-basketball-odds-creighton-blue-jays-vs-illinois-state-redbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-odds-creighton-blue-jays-vs-illinois-state-redbirds-21021\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Odds: Creighton Blue Jays vs. Illinois State Redbirds"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 21 Creighton Blue Jays at Illinois State Redbirds
\nFriday, 1\/13\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Creighton -2.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Creighton -2.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 143
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 141.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Creighton Blue Jays will look to win their fifth-straight contest Friday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Creighton searches for its fourth straight road win in visiting Illinois State inside Redbird Arena and will look to extend its overall win streak to five games in the process.\u00a0 The Blue Jays have won 18 of the past 28 meetings, but are just 7-24 all-time in Normal, IL.\u00a0 The program won and covered the last two meetings, including a 64-53 victory on tonight\u2019s court as one-point underdogs on Dec. 29, 2010.\u00a0 Creighton is 26-19 ATS as a favorite the last two-plus seasons, while the \u2018over\u2019 is 24-18 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Blue Jays are led offensively by sophomore forward Doug McDermott, who is averaging 24.5 points and 8.3 rebounds per game, as he ranks second nationally in scoring average.\u00a0 Creighton was picked to win the Missouri Valley Conference during the preseason, returning 10 lettermen and three starters from last year\u2019s 23-16 squad.\u00a0 The program will likely walk away with a victory tonight, considering its opponent has lost 21 straight games versus ranked foes, including an 0-5 all-time mark in such games inside Redbird Arena.<\/p>\n

Illinois State is coming off a hard fought 65-62 defeat to the Wichita State Shockers as 14-point road underdogs, while going \u2018under\u2019 the total for the first time since Dec. 3.\u00a0 The Redbirds are shooting just 44.4 percent from the field this season, but their defense limits opponents to 40.1 percent.\u00a0 Hitting the 60-point mark is important for this team, tallying an 11-2 record when doing so, while going 0-3 when falling short of that number.\u00a0 \u00a0 Illinois State is 4-1 ATS as an underdog this season.<\/p>\n

The Redbirds will look to get the ball into forward Jackie Carmichael\u2019s hands, as he leads the team in averaging 12.9 points and 8.3 rebounds per game.\u00a0 He will certainly get some help from junior guard Tyler Brown, who has scored in double figures in four straight games, as the team looks to bounce back from defeat.\u00a0 \u201cLosing never feels good, but you hope when you put forth a tremendous effort as we did, you hope that positive things come from it,\u201d commented Redbirds head coach Tim Jankovich.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Blue Jays due to their 12-4 ATS mark as a favorite, while the Redbirds are 6-15 ATS in their last 21 home games.<\/p>\n

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No. 21 Creighton Blue Jays at Illinois State Redbirds Friday, 1\/13\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Creighton -2.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Creighton -2.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 143 Current Total:\u00a0 141.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Creighton searches for its fourth straight road win in visiting Illinois State inside Redbird Arena and will look to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4575,5798,4077,6345,4516,6344],"class_list":["post-21021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-creighton-blue-jays","tag-doug-mcdermott","tag-illinois-state-redbirds","tag-jackie-carmichael","tag-missouri-valley-conference","tag-redbird-arena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21021","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=21021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21022,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21021\/revisions\/21022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}