{"id":21270,"date":"2012-01-25T14:55:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T19:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21270"},"modified":"2012-01-25T14:55:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T19:55:27","slug":"ncaa-basketball-predictions-byu-cougars-vs-virginia-tech-hokies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-predictions-byu-cougars-vs-virginia-tech-hokies-21270\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Predictions: BYU Cougars vs. Virginia Tech Hokies"},"content":{"rendered":"

BYU Cougars at Virginia Tech Hokies
\nWednesday, 1\/25\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Virginia Tech -2
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Virginia Tech -2.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 139.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 142
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Virginia Tech Hokies are very good defensively in guarding the three-point area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BYU has won six of its past seven games and comes off a 77-64 win over the Pepperdine Waves as 13.5-point road favorites.\u00a0 The Cougars have been struggling from beyond the arc in their past two games, shooting a combined 4-for-36 from the three-point area in that span.\u00a0 Senior forward Noah Hartsock is still the team\u2019s leading scorer, averaging 17.5 points per game, as he\u2019s shooting 58.3 percent from the field and 82.5 percent from the charity stripe.\u00a0 BYU is 1-5 ATS on the road this season.<\/p>\n

The Cougars have had six players on their roster score 20-plus points this season, while forward Brandon Davies has tallied five double-doubles.\u00a0 He scored a career-high 29 points and grabbed six rebounds in the team\u2019s win over the Waves last time out.\u00a0 BYU leads the West Coast Conference in scoring offense, while sitting fifth in scoring defense.\u00a0 These two teams have met just once, with the Cougars capturing a 97-64 win on Dec. 29, 1967.<\/p>\n

Virginia Tech takes a break from Atlantic Coast Conference play and comes off an impressive 47-45 win over the Virginia Cavaliers inside John Paul Jones Arena Sunday night as 7.5-point road underdogs.\u00a0 The Hokies did a great job in limiting Cavaliers star forward Mike Scott in that contest, holding him to 10 points in 36 minutes.\u00a0 The team has been great in defending the three-point line this season, ranking fourth in college basketball in allowing opponents to hit just 25.4 percent of their shots from beyond the arc.\u00a0 Virginia Tech is 2-4 ATS at home this year.<\/p>\n

The Hokies are led offensively by junior guard Erick Green, who comes in averaging 16.1 points and 3.2 assists per game.\u00a0 He returned from a knee injury on Jan. 19 and had just one turnover against the North Carolina Tar Heels and Virginia Cavaliers.\u00a0 Virginia Tech\u2019s 47 points versus Virginia was its lowest point total for the program to ever walk away with a conference victory.\u00a0 The team will be hosting its first ever game against a West Coast Conference team tonight inside Cassell Coliseum.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Hokies due to their 4-1-1 ATS mark versus non-conference opponents, while the Cougars are 0-6 ATS versus ACC teams.<\/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":"

BYU Cougars at Virginia Tech Hokies Wednesday, 1\/25\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Virginia Tech -2 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Virginia Tech -2.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 139.5 Current Total:\u00a0 142 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker BYU has won six of its past seven games and comes off a 77-64 win over the Pepperdine Waves as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[387,434,6382,5869,5910,1926,3888],"class_list":["post-21270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-byu-cougars","tag-cassell-coliseum","tag-erick-green","tag-noah-hartsock","tag-virginia-tech-hokies","tag-west-coast-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21270","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=21270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21272,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21270\/revisions\/21272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}