{"id":21182,"date":"2012-01-21T08:45:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T13:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21182"},"modified":"2012-01-20T20:49:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T01:49:22","slug":"sec-basketball-predictions-lsu-tigers-vs-florida-gators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/sec-basketball-predictions-lsu-tigers-vs-florida-gators-21182\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC Basketball Predictions: LSU Tigers vs. Florida Gators"},"content":{"rendered":"

LSU Tigers at No. 14 Florida Gators
\nSaturday, 1\/21\/12, 6:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Florida -13.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Florida -13.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 137.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 137.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Florida Gators guard Kenny Boynton is one of the best three-point shooters in the nation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LSU has split its last four games with both losses coming on the road against Southeastern Conference opponents, as the team travels to Gainesville to take on the Florida Gators inside the Stephen C. O\u2019Connell Center.\u00a0 The Tigers tallied a 65-58 overtime win over the Auburn Tigers as 8.5-point home favorites last time out, while going \u2018over\u2019 the total for the third time in four games.\u00a0 Sophomore guard Andre Stringer leads the offense in averaging 10.8 points per game, with the defense holding 12 of its 18 opponents under 60 points this season.\u00a0 LSU is 5-2 ATS in its last seven road games.<\/p>\n

The Tigers have lost the last two games in this series, including a 72-58 loss as 10.5-point road underdogs the last time they visited Gainesville on Jan. 16, 2010.\u00a0 LSU will certainly hope that Justin Hamilton continues his recent play on the offensive end, posting double figures in all four SEC games.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that the program has lost 10 straight road games versus ranked opponents and 17 of 19 versus conference opponents away from home.<\/p>\n

Florida has won four of seven meetings with LSU when hosting during the Billy Donovan era, as the squad has five starters averaging in double figures.\u00a0 The Gators are led offensively by the play of guard Kenny Boynton, who is averaging 18.7 points per game.\u00a0 \u201cFlorida, in goodness of guard play, is exceptional,\u201d commented Tigers head coach Trent Johnson.\u00a0 The team is 9-0 at home this season and has posted 15 consecutive wins inside Saturday\u2019s venue.\u00a0 Florida is 4-0-1 ATS in its last five games as a home favorite.<\/p>\n

The Gators have won four of their last five games and registered an impressive 79-65 win over the South Carolina Gamecocks as seven-point road favorites last time out.\u00a0 Total players will find that the squad has gone \u2018over\u2019 the total in five of its last seven games.\u00a0 Hitting shots from beyond the arc is this team\u2019s specialty, nailing 10 or more three-pointers in 13 games this year.\u00a0 Boynton is third all-time in the SEC in hitting 218 shots from three-point range.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Tigers due to their 4-1 ATS mark in the last five meetings, while the Gators are 2-7-1 ATS as a home favorite of 13 or more points.<\/p>\n

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LSU Tigers at No. 14 Florida Gators Saturday, 1\/21\/12, 6:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Florida -13.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Florida -13.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 137.5 Current Total:\u00a0 137.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker LSU has split its last four games with both losses coming on the road against Southeastern Conference opponents, as the team […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[6090,499,6092,5741,498,3875,3885],"class_list":["post-21182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-andre-stringer","tag-florida-gators","tag-justin-hamilton","tag-kenny-boynton","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-southeastern-conference","tag-stephen-c-oconnell-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21182","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=21182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21183,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21182\/revisions\/21183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}