{"id":21231,"date":"2012-01-24T04:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21231"},"modified":"2012-01-23T20:55:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T01:55:53","slug":"college-basketball-picks-south-florida-bulls-vs-marquette-golden-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-south-florida-bulls-vs-marquette-golden-eagles-21231\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: South Florida Bulls vs. Marquette Golden Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Florida Bulls at No. 18 Marquette Golden Eagles
\nTuesday, 1\/24\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Marquette -10.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Marquette -10.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 126.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 126.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Marquette Golden Eagles are 16-3 SU all-time against the South Florida Bulls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

South Florida will put its three-game winning streak on the line Tuesday night and total bettors will find that the \u201cunder\u201d has cashed in the team\u2019s last four games.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s a little early to start making judgements about the Big East Conference power structure,\u201d commented Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim.\u00a0 \u201cThis team is good.\u00a0 South Florida can beat you.\u201d\u00a0 Bulls head coach Stan Heath had 77 percent of his scoring and 67.8 percent of his rebounding return from a year ago.\u00a0 South Florida is 17-13 ATS on the road the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Bulls normally get off to a solid start defensively, holding 15 consecutive opponents to 30 points or less in the opening 20 minutes.\u00a0 South Florida is enjoying its best start to a Big East campaign, posting wins in five of its first seven games.\u00a0 Defensively, the program is first in the conference rankings in allowing just 57.7 points per game, while sitting 13th nationally.\u00a0 On the offensive side, the return of junior guard Jawanza Poland has provided a lift, as he\u2019s averaging 12.0 points over the past nine games after missing the first 11 due to a back injury.<\/p>\n

Marquette shot 53.7 percent from the field in capturing a 79-72 road win over the Providence Friars, winning its fourth game in a row after dropping two consecutive games to Georgetown and Syracuse away from home.\u00a0 The Golden Eagles have won 16 of 19 meetings with the Bulls, including a 63-52 win the last time they played in the Bradley Center on Feb. 13, 2010.\u00a0 Marquette is 0-2 ATS as a home favorite of 9.5 to 12 points this year.<\/p>\n

The Golden Eagles are led by senior guard Darius Johnson-Odom offensively, coming in averaging 18.2 points per game, which ranks third among Big East players and 41st nationally.\u00a0 Forward Jae Crowder is another weapon, adding 16.3 points and grabbing 7.4 rebounds per game on 51.1 percent shooting.\u00a0 Dating back to the start of the 2008-09 campaign, the Golden Eagles are 63-5 when finishing the game with a field goal percentage even-or-better than their opponents.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Bulls due to their 5-1 ATS mark as an underdog, while the Golden Eagles are 0-5 ATS as a favorite of 7 to 12.5 points.<\/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":"

South Florida Bulls at No. 18 Marquette Golden Eagles Tuesday, 1\/24\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Marquette -10.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Marquette -10.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 126.5 Current Total:\u00a0 126.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker South Florida will put its three-game winning streak on the line Tuesday night and total bettors will find that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[2497,4549,6175,6370,3943,1155],"class_list":["post-21231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-east-conference","tag-bradley-center","tag-darius-johnson-odom","tag-jawanza-poland","tag-marquette-golden-eagles","tag-south-florida-bulls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21231","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=21231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21232,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21231\/revisions\/21232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}