{"id":21126,"date":"2012-01-17T11:48:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T16:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21126"},"modified":"2012-01-17T11:48:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T16:48:36","slug":"college-basketball-odds-michigan-state-spartans-vs-michigan-wolverines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-odds-michigan-state-spartans-vs-michigan-wolverines-21126\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Odds: Michigan State Spartans vs. Michigan Wolverines"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 9 Michigan State Spartans at No. 19 Michigan Wolverines
\nTuesday, 1\/17\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -2
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State PK
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 133
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 128.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Michigan Wolverines are a dangerous home underdog Tuesday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Michigan State looks to bounce back from its first conference loss of the season as it travels to Michigan and will look to snap a two-game losing streak in this series.\u00a0 \u201cI never want to lose to Michigan,\u201d commented Spartans forward Draymond Green.\u00a0 \u201cThis year is where it starts.\u201d\u00a0 The senior is leading the team in averaging 15.8 points and 10.1 rebounds per game.\u00a0 The team is 4-1 in true road games this season and is limiting opponents to 37.9 percent shooting away from East Lansing.\u00a0 Michigan State is 24-37 ATS as a favorite the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Spartans have registered a 3-2 record against ranked opponents this season, including road wins over Gonzaga and Wisconsin.\u00a0 Green has upped his performance against such foes, averaging 17.2 points versus ranked teams.\u00a0 Head coach Tom Izzo is 18-10 in his career in this in-state rivalry, as the program has captured 18 of the last 23 meetings.\u00a0 Offensively, the Spartans rank second during conference play in shooting 49.8 percent from the floor.<\/p>\n

Michigan is 14-4 overall this season and continues to enjoy its best start for the program under current head coach John Beilein.\u00a0 The Wolverines have registered a perfect 11-0 record at home this season, winning their last 12 games inside the Crisler Center.\u00a0 There\u2019s no question that the entire roster knows it must perform at a high level to pick up a victory Tuesday night.\u00a0 \u201cThey come out swinging,\u201d commented Wolverines forward Zack Novak.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re going to come out swinging too.\u201d\u00a0 The program has tallied two wins over ranked opponents, defeating Memphis and Wisconsin.\u00a0 Michigan is 3-0 ATS as a home underdog of three points or less the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Wolverines have two players that average in double figures\u2014led by the play of guard Tim Hardaway Jr., who is averaging 15.7 points per game.\u00a0 Michigan has responded after each loss this season, winning the next game by an average of 14.6 points per game.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is shooting 46.1 percent from the field this year, which would be the top mark for any squad during the Beilein era in Ann Arbor.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Wolverines due to their 22-8 ATS mark in their last 30 overall games, while the Spartans are 0-5 ATS as a road favorite of 6.5 points or less.<\/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":"

No. 9 Michigan State Spartans at No. 19 Michigan Wolverines Tuesday, 1\/17\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -2 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State PK Opening Total:\u00a0 133 Current Total:\u00a0 128.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Michigan State looks to bounce back from its first conference loss of the season as it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3442,5744,6358,5832,500,468,5803],"class_list":["post-21126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-cbb","tag-crisler-center","tag-draymond-green","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-michigan-wolverines","tag-tim-hardaway-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21126","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=21126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21127,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21126\/revisions\/21127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}