{"id":21728,"date":"2012-02-18T22:17:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T03:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21728"},"modified":"2012-02-18T22:17:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T03:17:06","slug":"college-basketball-picks-michigan-state-spartans-vs-purdue-boilermakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-michigan-state-spartans-vs-purdue-boilermakers-21728\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Michigan State Spartans vs. Purdue Boilermakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 8 Michigan State Spartans at Purdue Boilermakers
\nSunday, 2\/19\/12, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 134
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 134
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Purdue Boilermakers forward Robbie Hummel will need to play big in order to upset the Michigan State Spartans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Michigan State looks to stay atop the Big Ten Conference standings and will look to push its current win streak to five games.\u00a0 The Spartans have won and covered their last four contests, which includes an impressive 69-55 victory over the Wisconsin Badgers as six-point home favorites.\u00a0 \u201cThat win says a lot,\u201d commented Spartans forward Draymond Green.\u00a0 \u201cWisconsin is not an easy team to play against.\u201d\u00a0 Michigan State is 1-3 ATS as a road favorite of three points or less over the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Spartans have won five true road games this season, as Green has shown great leadership in being a three-time captain, averaging 15.2 points and 10.5 rebounds per game.\u00a0 Michigan State leads the conference in field-goal percentage defense and sit second in allowing just 57.5 points per game.\u00a0 The program has won 18 of the last 28 games in this particular series, with head coach Tom Izzo producing an 18-13 mark in his 31 meetings on the sidelines.<\/p>\n

Purdue aims to win three in a row in Big Ten play for the first time this season and has won four of the last five with Sunday\u2019s opponent inside Mackey Arena.\u00a0 The Boilermakers will be seeking to gain revenge from a lopsided 83-58 loss in the first meeting this season as 7.5-point road underdogs.\u00a0 In order to pull off the slight upset, the team will need to continue hitting shots from the perimeter, knocking down 29-of-58 attempts from beyond the arc in the last two games.\u00a0 Purdue is 6-2 ATS as an underdog this year.<\/p>\n

The Boilermakers are led offensively by senior forward Robbie Hummel, who is averaging 15.7 points and 6.6 rebounds per game.\u00a0 Purdue owns a 65-47 all-time edge in this series, but current head coach Matt Painter will look to even his record to 7-7 versus Michigan State since he arrived on campus.\u00a0 Hummel will need to step up his game offensively, shooting just 29.5 percent versus ranked opponents this year, including missing all 11 field-goal attempts against the Spartans in East Lansing on Jan. 21.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Boilermakers due to their 5-2 ATS mark on Sundays, while the Spartans are 2-5 ATS in the same situation.<\/p>\n

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No. 8 Michigan State Spartans at Purdue Boilermakers Sunday, 2\/19\/12, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 134 Current Total:\u00a0 134 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Michigan State looks to stay atop the Big Ten Conference standings and will look to push its current […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3442,5832,6338,500,1295,5797],"class_list":["post-21728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-draymond-green","tag-mackey-arena","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-purdue-boilermakers","tag-robbie-hummel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21728","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=21728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21729,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21728\/revisions\/21729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}