{"id":21194,"date":"2012-01-21T03:44:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T08:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21194"},"modified":"2012-01-21T03:44:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T08:44:11","slug":"big-ten-rivals-clash-in-east-lansing-purdue-boilermakers-at-michigan-st-spartans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/big-ten-rivals-clash-in-east-lansing-purdue-boilermakers-at-michigan-st-spartans-21194\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Ten Rivals Clash In East Lansing: Purdue Boilermakers at Michigan St Spartans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Purdue Boilermakers at Michigan St Spartans
\nJack Breslin Student Events Center – East Lansing, Michigan
\nSaturday, January 21, 2012, 12:00 pm Eastern, TV: ESPN
\nOpening Line: Michigan St -8 1\/2
\nCurrent Line: Michigan St -8
\nOpening Total: 136 1\/2
\nCurrent Total: 136
\nOpening Money Line: Michigan St -420 \/ Purdue +330
\nCurrent Money Line: Michigan St -420 \/ Purdue +330<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Michigan St and Purdue are both 4-2 in Big Ten play this season as they meet Saturday in East Lansing. The Spartans are 8 point home favorites.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Big Ten is a jumbled mess as Michigan is 5-2 and leads a pack of 4 teams by a half game at 4-2. That pack includes the 14-5 Purdue Boilermakers and the 15-4 Michigan St Spartans. The Boilermakers and Spartans meet Saturday in a crucial conference game. Purdue leads the overall series 65-46, but Michigan St is 28-25 all time in East Lansing. The Boilermakers have won 2 straight games in East Lansing. The Spartans won the last meeting 74-56 in the Big Ten tournament quarterfinals last year in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n

Purdue is coached by Matt Painter. The Boilermakers have losses to Alabama, Xavier, Butler, Penn St, and Wisconsin. Purdue has wins over Northern Illinois, Iona, Temple,\u00a0 Western Michigan, Miami-FL, Eastern Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa 75-68 Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Michigan St is coached by Tom Izzo. The Spartans have losses to North Carolina Duke, Northwestern, and Tuesday night at Michigan 60-59. The Spartans have lost two games in a row after a 15 game winning streak. Michigan St has wins over Milwaukee, Eastern Michigan, Florida St, Gonzaga, Bowling Green, Indiana, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Iowa.<\/p>\n

Purdue is outscoring opponents 73-62 this season. The Boilermakers shoot 44.5% from the field, including 36.5% from 3 point range. Purdue makes 61.9% of their free throws. The Boilermakers average 34.8 rebounds a game, and have a rebounding margin of +0.5. Purdue averages 13.8 points, 9.6 turnovers, 7.6 steals, and 3.7 blocks a game. Boilermaker opponents are shooting 41% from the field including 35.2% from 3 point range. Purdue forces 14.5 turnovers a game.<\/p>\n

Purdue forward Robbie Hummel averages 16.1 points, 6.3 rebounds, 1.7 assists, and 1.2 blocks a game. He leads the team in scoring, rebounds, and blocks and is shooting 37.1% from 3 point range. Ryne Smith averages 10.2 points, 2.8 rebounds, and 1.3 assists. Smith shoots 45.3% from 3 point range. Lewis Jackson averages 10 points, 3.4 rebounds, 3.7 assists to lead the team, and 1.2 steals a game. Kelsey Barlow averages 8.8 points, 4.1 rebounds, 2.1 assists, and 1.4 steals a game to lead the team. Terone Johnson averages 7.6 points, 3.3 rebounds, 1.8 assists, and 1.2 steals a game.<\/p>\n

Michigan St is outscoring opponents 76-61 this season. The Spartans are shooting 47.8% from the field including 36.9% from 3 point range. MSU makes 69.6% of their free throws. The Spartans average 40.2 rebounds a game and have a rebounding margin of +10.2. Michigan St is #10 in the country in rebounding. The Spartans average 16.7 assists, 13.9 turnovers, 8.2 steals, and 4.7 blocks a game. MSU opponents are shooting 38.6% from the field including 30.1% from 3 point range. The Spartans force 14.3 turnovers a game.<\/p>\n

MSU forward Draymond Green averages 15.4 points, 10.1 rebounds, 3.4 assists, 1.6 steals, and 1.2 blocks a game. He leads the Spartans in all categories except assists. Green is shooting 40.3% on three pointers.\u00a0 Keith Appling averages 12.7 points, 3.5 rebounds, 3.9 assists to lead the team, and 1.1 steals a game.\u00a0 Brandon Wood averages 9.7 points, 2.9 rebounds, and 2.4 assists. Branden Dawson, Adreian Payne, Travis Trice and Derrick Nix all contribute significantly as well.<\/p>\n

Michigan St is 10-6 against the spread and the total is 8-7-1 overall. Purdue is 8-8 ATS and the total is also 8-8 this season. Purdue is 8-3 ATS in the last 11 meetings against Michigan St, including 4-1 in East Lansing. Twelve of the last fifteen meetings have gone under the total. The Boilermakers are 7-1 ATS after failing to cover, 4-1 as a road underdog, 5-2 in Saturday games, 7-18-1 as an underdog of between 7-12.5 points, 2-7 in Big Ten games, 1-4 after a straight up win, and 1-4 as a road dog of between 7 and 12.5 points. The Spartans are 4-1 ATS after failing to cover, and as a favorite of 7-12.5 points, 5-2 at home, and as a home favorite, 10-4 against teams with winning records, 9-4 overall, 3-8-1 after a straight up win, and 2-8-1 in Saturday games.<\/p>\n

Though Purdue has had success recently at East Lansing, the Spartans return home after two tough road losses. A loss for either team would send them further back in the pack of the parity driven Big ten. I like Michigan St to rebound at home in a close hard fought game.<\/p>\n

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Purdue Boilermakers at Michigan St Spartans Jack Breslin Student Events Center – East Lansing, Michigan Saturday, January 21, 2012, 12:00 pm Eastern, TV: ESPN Opening Line: Michigan St -8 1\/2 Current Line: Michigan St -8 Opening Total: 136 1\/2 Current Total: 136 Opening Money Line: Michigan St -420 \/ Purdue +330 Current Money Line: Michigan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40249,"featured_media":19813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[737,4308,9528,3631,6030,1492,4292,30,1295],"class_list":["post-21194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-ten","tag-colelge-basketball-betting","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-basketball-handicapping","tag-college-basketball-odds","tag-espn","tag-michigan-st-spartans","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-purdue-boilermakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21194","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\/40249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21196,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21194\/revisions\/21196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}