{"id":21155,"date":"2012-01-19T12:21:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T17:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21155"},"modified":"2012-01-19T12:21:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T17:21:11","slug":"college-basketball-picks-vanderbilt-commodores-vs-alabama-crimson-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-vanderbilt-commodores-vs-alabama-crimson-tide-21155\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Vanderbilt Commodores vs. Alabama Crimson Tide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vanderbilt Commodores at Alabama Crimson Tide
\nThursday, 1\/19\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Alabama -6.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Alabama -5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 123
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 127.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Vanderbilt Commodores have started conference play with three wins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vanderbilt has won seven consecutive games that includes a 77-66 win over the Georgia Bulldogs as 13-point home favorites.\u00a0 The Commodores have covered three of their past five games, while the \u2018under\u2019 is on a 5-1 run.\u00a0 \u201cI think if you want to be a championship team, like we want to be this season, you have to start off well,\u201d commented Commodores junior guard John Jenkins.\u00a0 The program is 3-0 in Southeastern Conference play for the second time in the Kevin Stallings\u2019 era.\u00a0 Vanderbilt is 15-5 ATS as an underdog the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Commodores have limited opponents to just 58.0 points per game on 39.1 percent shooting during their seven-game win streak.\u00a0 Vanderbilt has outscored its last five opponents by 15.0 points per game.\u00a0 Jenkins leads the SEC in averaging 19.8 points per game, while Jeffery Taylor sits third in scoring 16.9 points a contest.\u00a0 Stallings is 9-6 all-time in this series, posting a 2-4 mark when playing inside Coleman Coliseum in Tuscaloosa.<\/p>\n

Alabama returns home to face Vanderbilt and will look to push its record to 27-1 in its last 28 home games, while winning its 11th-straight SEC game inside Coleman Coliseum.\u00a0 The Crimson Tide have covered three of their last four games, as they look to bounce back from a 56-52 win over the Mississippi State Bulldogs as 1.5-point road favorites.\u00a0 \u201cThey made the plays they needed, and I think we played hard,\u201d commented Crimson Tide guard Andrew Steele.\u00a0 Senior JaMychal Green is the only player on the roster averaging in double figures, coming off a 14-point performance last time out.\u00a0 Alabama is 4-1 ATS as a home favorite of 3.5 to 6 points the last two-plus campaigns.<\/p>\n

The Crimson Tide continue to have one of the best defenses in college basketball, ranking eighth nationally in allowing just 55.7 points per game.\u00a0 Alabama has allowed just four teams to reach the 60-point mark this season.\u00a0 Of the team\u2019s 17 opponents, 10 have managed to score their season low to date against this squad.\u00a0 Trevor Releford will look to give Green help in the scoring column, leading the team in points in four of the last six contests.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Commodores due to their 9-2 ATS mark as a road underdog of 6.5 points or less, while the favorite is 0-4 ATS in the last four meetings.<\/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":"

Vanderbilt Commodores at Alabama Crimson Tide Thursday, 1\/19\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Alabama -6.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Alabama -5 Opening Total:\u00a0 123 Current Total:\u00a0 127.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Vanderbilt has won seven consecutive games that includes a 77-66 win over the Georgia Bulldogs as 13-point home favorites.\u00a0 The Commodores have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[462,6334,5978,5760,739,3875,456],"class_list":["post-21155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-coleman-coliseum","tag-jamychal-green","tag-john-jenkins","tag-sec","tag-southeastern-conference","tag-vanderbilt-commodores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21155","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=21155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21156,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21155\/revisions\/21156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}