{"id":21483,"date":"2012-02-03T21:45:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T02:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21483"},"modified":"2012-02-03T21:45:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T02:45:41","slug":"college-basketball-predictions-virginia-cavaliers-vs-florida-state-seminoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-predictions-virginia-cavaliers-vs-florida-state-seminoles-21483\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Predictions: Virginia Cavaliers vs. Florida State Seminoles"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 18 Virginia Cavaliers at No. 24 Florida State Seminoles
\nSaturday, 2\/4\/12, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Florida State -5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Florida State -4.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 114.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 114.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Virginia Cavaliers have lost 14 straight games when playing in the state of Florida<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Virginia is looking for its fourth consecutive win and also capture its sixth true win of the season, something the program hasn\u2019t accomplished since the 1994-95 campaign.\u00a0 The Cavaliers are coming off a 65-61 win over the Clemson Tigers as 7.5-point home favorites, while going \u201cover\u201d the posted total of 112.5.\u00a0 The program has lost 14-straight games played in the state of Florida, including eight games in this particular series.\u00a0 Saturday\u2019s contest will be the first meeting with both teams being ranked since 1992-93.\u00a0 \u00a0 Virginia is 5-0 ATS on the road this season.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers continue to be led by senior forward Mike Scott, who managed to score 23 points and grab 10 rebounds versus the Tigers.\u00a0 He is the ACC\u2019s active leader in points, rebounds and double-doubles.\u00a0 Dating back to last season, the program has proven victorious in seven of its last eight true road games.\u00a0 Virginia is second in the nation in scoring defense, giving up 51.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

Florida State has won a school record-tying six consecutive ACC games and has managed to cover each of those games.\u00a0 The Seminoles registered an impressive 68-54 win over the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets as 12-point home favorites last time out, while going \u201cunder\u201d the total for the second straight game.\u00a0 \u201cWe are in a position that we have never been in before,\u2019 commented Seminoles head coach Leonard Hamilton about being atop the conference standings at this stage.\u00a0 Florida State is 8-2 ATS at home this year.<\/p>\n

The Seminoles are the only team in the ACC with multiple wins over top-five ranked teams, while being one of only two programs to have a perfect record in conference play (North Carolina).\u00a0 Junior All-American and All-ACC candidate Michael Snaer is certainly a player to watch Saturday, averaging 16.3 points and shooting 58.3 percent from beyond the arc during the team\u2019s current win streak.\u00a0 Florida State is the third winningest program in the ACC in the last four years, averaging 23.3 wins per season in the previous three campaigns.\u00a0 The program relies heavily on its starters, receiving just five points from its reserves in its latest win.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Seminoles due to their 16-5-1 ATS mark versus conference opponents, while the Cavaliers are 2-9 ATS in the last 11 meetings in this series.<\/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":"

No. 18 Virginia Cavaliers at No. 24 Florida State Seminoles Saturday, 2\/4\/12, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Florida State -5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Florida State -4.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 114.5 Current Total:\u00a0 114.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Virginia is looking for its fourth consecutive win and also capture its sixth true win of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[387,1112,5850,6039,2977],"class_list":["post-21483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-florida-state-seminoles","tag-michael-snaer","tag-mike-scott","tag-virginia-cavaliers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21483","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=21483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21484,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21483\/revisions\/21484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}