{"id":21582,"date":"2012-02-07T23:45:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T04:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21582"},"modified":"2012-02-07T21:15:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T02:15:01","slug":"big-ten-conference-basketball-penn-state-nittany-lions-vs-michigan-state-spartans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/big-ten-conference-basketball-penn-state-nittany-lions-vs-michigan-state-spartans-21582\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Ten Conference Basketball: Penn State Nittany Lions vs. Michigan State Spartans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Penn State Nittany Lions at No. 12 Michigan State Spartans
\nWednesday, 2\/8\/12, 6:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 Big Ten Network
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -17
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -17
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 124.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 124.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Michigan State Spartans forward Draymond Green is averaging a double-double this season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Penn State has lost seven of eight games and travels to East Lansing looking to snap a four-game losing streak.\u00a0 The Nittany Lions are 7-29 overall in this series and have won just once in 19 prior meetings in East Lansing.\u00a0 \u201cIf you polled the Big Ten coaches right now, I\u2019m sure just about all of them would vote Penn State as one of the hardest playing teams,\u201d commented Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo.\u00a0 The team will be looking for its first road win in conference action, coming in with an 0-6 record away from home.\u00a0 Penn State is 1-7 ATS on the road this season and the \u201cunder\u201d is 5-3 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Nittany Lions continue to be led by junior point guard Tim Frazier offensively, averaging 18.3 points and leading the Big Ten in assists.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that he\u2019s never scored inside tonight\u2019s venue, missing all seven shots from the floor in two contests.\u00a0 Penn State actually won two of three meetings with Michigan State a year ago, including a 61-48 win in the semifinals of the 2011 Big Ten Tournament as 3.5-point underdogs.<\/p>\n

Michigan State is fresh off an impressive 64-54 win over in-state rival Michigan as seven-point home favorites, going \u201cunder\u201d the total in four of five games.\u00a0 The Spartans may have a tough time keeping their focus considering that they travel to face the Ohio State Buckeyes on Saturday.\u00a0 Forward Draymond Green will play an important part in this contest, scoring 14 points and grabbing 16 rebounds versus the Wolverines, as he showed no signs of being hampered by a sprained knee.\u00a0 Michigan State is 8-3 ATS at home this season and the \u201cover\u201d is 6-5 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Spartans are a dominating 234-29 inside the Breslin Center under Izzo\u2019s direction, including a 119-20 conference record.\u00a0 Green currently leads the Big Ten in grabbing 10.5 rebounds per game, ranking 13th nationally in that particular category.\u00a0 Michigan State averages 73.7 points per game on the offensive end, while giving up just 59.1, which comes out to outscoring opponents by an average of 14.6 points a contest.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Nittany Lions due to their 5-3 ATS mark as a road underdog of 12.5 or more points, while the Spartans are 7-12 ATS as a home favorite of more than 12.5 points.<\/p>\n

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Penn State Nittany Lions at No. 12 Michigan State Spartans Wednesday, 2\/8\/12, 6:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 Big Ten Network Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -17 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -17 Opening Total:\u00a0 124.5 Current Total:\u00a0 124.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Penn State has lost seven of eight games and travels to East Lansing looking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3442,3874,5832,500,497,6304,778],"class_list":["post-21582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-breslin-center","tag-draymond-green","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-penn-state-nittany-lions","tag-tim-frazier","tag-tom-izzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21582","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=21582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21583,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21582\/revisions\/21583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}