{"id":21023,"date":"2012-01-13T11:35:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T16:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21023"},"modified":"2012-01-13T11:35:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T16:35:51","slug":"horizon-league-basketball-butler-bulldogs-welcome-in-the-cleveland-state-vikings-into-hinkle-fieldhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/horizon-league-basketball-butler-bulldogs-welcome-in-the-cleveland-state-vikings-into-hinkle-fieldhouse-21023\/","title":{"rendered":"Horizon League Basketball: Butler Bulldogs Welcome the Cleveland State Vikings into Hinkle Fieldhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleveland State Vikings at Butler Bulldogs
\nFriday, 1\/13\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Butler -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Butler -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 118
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 120.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Butler Bulldogs own a 30-7 all-time record against the Cleveland State Vikings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cleveland State enters this contest with a 14-3 overall record and tied for first place in the Horizon League.\u00a0 The Vikings won two of three in their recent homestand, going \u2018over\u2019 the posted total in each contest, including a 69-48 win over Loyola Chicago on Saturday.\u00a0 The program has had very little success in this particular series, winding up on the losing end in 30 of 37 meetings, including five losses in a row.\u00a0 Cleveland State is 1-5 ATS when playing with five or six days of rest the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Vikings take care of the basketball and rank 12th nationally with a plus-4.5 turnover margin, while sitting 16th in three-point percentage defense.\u00a0 Cleveland State has been on fire from beyond the arc in the past five games, hitting 48-of-100 shots.\u00a0 Winning on the road is something the team has taken pride in during the 2011-12 campaign, capturing seven of eight true road games away from the Wolstein Center.\u00a0 Three senior starters currently average in double figures\u2014led by forward D\u2019Aundray Brown, who is scoring 12.6 points a night.<\/p>\n

Butler has faced a first-place Cleveland State squad in the last three meetings in this series, as it looks to bounce back from a disappointing 76-65 loss to the Detroit Titans as two-point road underdogs last time out.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that the program suffered its first two-game homecourt losing streak during the Brad Stevens era earlier this year.\u00a0 The team is still a dominating 158-22 inside Hinkle Fieldhouse since the start of the 1999-2000 campaign.\u00a0 Butler is 0-5 ATS as a favorite this season.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs last five wins have come by an average margin of 3.2 points per contest, with each being decided in the final minute of play.\u00a0 Butler will certainly need to improve upon its defensive effort in this affair, as it allowed Detroit to shoot 56.3 percent from beyond the arc last time out.\u00a0 Junior Andrew Smith has been a force offensively over the past five games, hitting 24-of-36 shots from the field.\u00a0 He averaged 15.7 points and 7.7 rebounds in three games against tonight\u2019s opponent last year.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Bulldogs due to their 4-1-1 ATS as a home favorite of 6.5 points or less, while the Vikings are 2-5 ATS in their last seven road games.<\/p>\n

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Cleveland State Vikings at Butler Bulldogs Friday, 1\/13\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Butler -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Butler -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 118 Current Total:\u00a0 120.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Cleveland State enters this contest with a 14-3 overall record and tied for first place in the Horizon League.\u00a0 The Vikings won […]<\/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":[5790,1394,695,6346,6347,5789,4085],"class_list":["post-21023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-andrew-smith","tag-brad-stevens","tag-butler-bulldogs","tag-cleveland-state-vikings","tag-daundray-brown","tag-hinkle-fieldhouse","tag-horizon-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21023","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=21023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21025,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21023\/revisions\/21025"}],"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=21023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}