{"id":21390,"date":"2012-01-31T11:29:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T16:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21390"},"modified":"2012-01-31T11:29:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T16:29:09","slug":"ncaa-basketball-picks-seton-hall-pirates-vs-marquette-golden-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-picks-seton-hall-pirates-vs-marquette-golden-eagles-21390\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Picks: Seton Hall Pirates vs. Marquette Golden Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seton Hall Pirates at No. 15 Marquette Golden Eagles
\nTuesday, 1\/31\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Marquette -9
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Marquette -8.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 137
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 139.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Seton Hall Pirates forward Herb Pope has really struggled over the past 10 games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Seton Hall has dropped its last four games in straight-up and against-the-spread fashion, as it comes in off a 60-51 defeat to the Louisville Cardinals as one-point home favorites.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re lacking a lot of confidence and it\u2019s kind of making us a step slow,\u201d stated Pirates head coach Kevin Willard.\u00a0 The Pirates are led by the three starters that average in double figures, with senior guard Jordan Theodore leading the way in averaging 16.1 points per game.\u00a0 Senior forward Herb Pope is right behind him in averaging a double-double in points and rebounds.\u00a0 Seton Hall is 0-4 ATS as a road underdog of 6.5 to 9 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Pirates are 2-8 all-time in their series versus the Golden Eagles, picking up an 85-72 victory in the last meeting as one-point home favorites.\u00a0 Seton Hall can only hope that Pope is able to find some extra energy down the stretch, averaging just 9.9 points and shooting 36 percent from the field over the last 10 games.\u00a0 The program has dropped 22 of 23 road games versus ranked competition.<\/p>\n

Marquette is enjoying a six-game win streak and has gone \u201cover\u201d the total in three of four games during its current run.\u00a0 The Golden Eagles have also covered their last four games, including an 82-78 win over the Villanova Wildcats as 3.5-point road favorites on Saturday.\u00a0 The program is 11-1 inside the Bradley Center this year and has outscored its opponents by an average of 17.7 points a game.\u00a0 Marquette is 20-6 ATS in January the last two-plus campaigns.<\/p>\n

The Golden Eagles have been shooting the ball well over the past three weeks, hitting 41.1 percent of their shots from beyond the arc, while nailing down 73.4 percent of their attempts from the charity stripe.\u00a0 Guard Darius Johnson-Odom is the main threat on the perimeter, averaging 18.5 points per game.\u00a0 Marquette moves the ball around as good as any team in the country, ranking sixth nationally in averaging 17.5 assists per game.\u00a0 Dating back to the start of the 2008-09 campaign, the program is 64-5 when finishing with a even-or-better field goal percentage than its opponents.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Pirates due to their 12-5 ATS mark versus winning teams, while the Golden Eagles are 1-5 ATS as a favorite of 7 to 12.5 points.<\/p>\n

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Seton Hall Pirates at No. 15 Marquette Golden Eagles Tuesday, 1\/31\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Marquette -9 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Marquette -8.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 137 Current Total:\u00a0 139.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Seton Hall has dropped its last four games in straight-up and against-the-spread fashion, as it comes in off a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[2497,4549,6175,5987,6290,3943,4300],"class_list":["post-21390","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-herb-pope","tag-jordan-theodore","tag-marquette-golden-eagles","tag-seton-hall-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21390","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=21390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21391,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21390\/revisions\/21391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}