{"id":22064,"date":"2012-03-08T08:35:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T13:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=22064"},"modified":"2012-03-08T08:35:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T13:35:45","slug":"college-basketball-predictions-penn-state-nittany-lions-vs-indiana-hoosiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-predictions-penn-state-nittany-lions-vs-indiana-hoosiers-22064\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Predictions: Penn State Nittany Lions vs. Indiana Hoosiers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Penn State Nittany Lions vs. No. 15 Indiana Hoosiers
\nThursday, 3\/8\/12, 1:55 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 Big Ten Network
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -13.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -13
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 137
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 135
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Indiana Hoosiers have been one-and-done in the last three Big Ten Conference tournaments<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Penn State will be the No. 12 seed and take on the No. 5 seeded Indiana Hoosiers Thursday afternoon inside Bankers Life Field House in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament.\u00a0 The Nittany Lions tied for last in the conference with a 4-14 record after suffering a fourth consecutive defeat in dropping a 71-65 decision to the Michigan Wolverines as 5.5-point home underdogs.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s very easy when you\u2019re in the situation like we were in to mail it in,\u201d commented Nittany Lions head coach Patrick Chambers.\u00a0 Penn State is 5-12 ATS as an underdog this year.<\/p>\n

The Nittany Lions dropped both series meetings with the Hoosiers this year, including a 73-54 loss as 15-point road underdogs on Jan. 22.\u00a0 Penn State has gotten a bit better offensively of late, shooting 45.6 percent over the last three games, which is a dramatic improvement from its 39.4 percent mark for the year.\u00a0 Getting the ball inside is key for this program, outscoring its last six opponents in the paint.\u00a0 Junior point guard Tim Frazier is the player to watch, leading the team in scoring 18.6 points per game and pacing the entire conference in dishing out 6.3 assists.<\/p>\n

Indiana has won four games in a row and will try to avoid looking ahead to a potential matchup with the Wisconsin Badgers.\u00a0 The Hoosiers are already the most improved team among major conference programs with a plus-12 in the win column from the previous season and the entire locker room is wanting to push it even further.\u00a0 Since beginning a surge on Feb.4 in winning seven of eight, the Hoosiers have outscored opponents by a 76.0 to 61.9-point margin.\u00a0 Indiana is 10-5 ATS as a favorite this year and the \u201cover\u201d is 11-5 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Hoosiers have been one-and-done in Indianapolis in the first three seasons of the Tom Crean era, but this team is much different than the previous ones.\u00a0 Indiana has struggled at times away from its home floor and has gone 5-6 away from Assembly Hall this season.\u00a0 Freshman forward Cody Zeller has scored in double figures 27 times this season and Verdell Jones III is currently 23rd all-time in scoring in the program\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Nittany Lions due to their 5-2 ATS mark when playing at a neutral site, while the Hoosiers are 1-6 ATS when being a favorite in that particular situation.<\/p>\n

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Penn State Nittany Lions vs. No. 15 Indiana Hoosiers Thursday, 3\/8\/12, 1:55 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 Big Ten Network Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -13.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -13 Opening Total:\u00a0 137 Current Total:\u00a0 135 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Penn State will be the No. 12 seed and take on the No. 5 seeded Indiana Hoosiers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[6524,3442,5922,2485,497,6304],"class_list":["post-22064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-bankers-life-field-house","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-cody-zeller","tag-indiana-hoosiers","tag-penn-state-nittany-lions","tag-tim-frazier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22064","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=22064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22068,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22064\/revisions\/22068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}