{"id":21487,"date":"2012-02-03T22:24:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T03:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21487"},"modified":"2012-02-03T22:24:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T03:24:40","slug":"sec-basketball-picks-vanderbilt-commodores-vs-florida-gators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/sec-basketball-picks-vanderbilt-commodores-vs-florida-gators-21487\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC Basketball Picks: Vanderbilt Commodores vs. Florida Gators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vanderbilt Commodores at No. 11 Florida Gators
\nSaturday, 2\/4\/12, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Florida -7
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Florida -6.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 145.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 146.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Florida Gators won all three meetings with the Vanderbilt Commodores last season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vanderbilt dropped to 16-6 on the season and 5-2 in Southeastern Conference play in suffering an 82-74 loss to the Arkansas Razorbacks as two-point road favorites last time out.\u00a0 The Commodores have gone \u201cover\u201d the total in five of their last six games, while posting a 2-4 ATS record in those contests.\u00a0 The program is still outscoring its opponents by 10.0 points per game during conference play, while shooting 47.4 percent from the floor and 44.7 percent from beyond the arc.\u00a0 Vanderbilt is 16-5 ATS as an underdog the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Commodores sport the leading scorer in all games and SEC action, with John Jenkins scoring 19.9 points per game.\u00a0 He has managed to score in double figures in 55 consecutive games, while doing so in 74 contests during his career.\u00a0 Vanderbilt has done a great job in defending the three-point line over the last two seasons, something that will prove critical in this matchup, allowing teams to hit just 32.2 percent of their shots beyond the arc.<\/p>\n

Florida is taking on its fifth ranked opponent of the 2011-12 campaign and picked up two wins in the previous four tries.\u00a0 The Gators are 21-11 against the Commodores under the direction of head coach Billy Donovan, including a 12-3 mark inside the O\u2019Connell Center.\u00a0 The teams have traded sweeps for the past three seasons, with the Gators taking all three meetings a year ago, including a 77-66 win in the SEC tournament as three-point favorites.\u00a0 Florida is 7-8 ATS in February the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Gators come in with an 18-game home win streak, which is tied for the fourth-longest in program history and tied for the seventh-longest active streak nationally.\u00a0 Florida has five players averaging double figures, with guard Kenny Boynton leading the way in scoring 17.5 points per game.\u00a0 The team comes off a 74-66 win over South Carolina, as Boynton poured in 24 points and Bradley Beal recorded his fourth career double-double with 17 points and 11 rebounds.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is averaging 80.4 points per game, shooting 47.6 percent from the field.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Commodores due to their 19-6 ATS mark in road games, while the Gators are 7-8 ATS as a favorite.<\/p>\n

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Vanderbilt Commodores at No. 11 Florida Gators Saturday, 2\/4\/12, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Florida -7 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Florida -6.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 145.5 Current Total:\u00a0 146.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Vanderbilt dropped to 16-6 on the season and 5-2 in Southeastern Conference play in suffering an 82-74 loss to the Arkansas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[499,5760,5741,6211,739,456],"class_list":["post-21487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-florida-gators","tag-john-jenkins","tag-kenny-boynton","tag-oconnell-center","tag-sec","tag-vanderbilt-commodores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21487","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=21487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21488,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21487\/revisions\/21488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}