{"id":22338,"date":"2012-03-17T10:42:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T15:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=22338"},"modified":"2012-03-17T10:42:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T15:42:48","slug":"ncaa-tournament-2012-picks-murray-state-racers-vs-marquette-golden-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-tournament-2012-picks-murray-state-racers-vs-marquette-golden-eagles-22338\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Tournament 2012 Picks: Murray State Racers vs. Marquette Golden Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 6 Murray State Racers vs. No. 3 Marquette Golden Eagles
\nSaturday, 3\/17\/12, 5:15 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Marquette -4.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Marquette -5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 140
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 142
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Forward Jae Crowder will lead the Marquette Golden Eagles against the Murray State Racers on Saturday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Murray State goes for its second win of the 2012 NCAA Tournament when taking on the 3rd seeded Marquette Golden Eagles in the third round of the West Region inside the KFC Yum! Center.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve come a long way as a team,\u201d commented Racers guard Isaiah Canaan.\u00a0 The Racers are 3-14 all-time in the Big Dance and are making their 15th appearance.\u00a0 The program is trying to reach the Sweet 16 for the first time in school history.\u00a0 Murray State is 10-4 ATS when playing a team with a winning record this year and the \u201cunder\u201d is 8-6 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Racers entire starting five saw action in 2010 NCAA Tournament when beating the Vanderbilt Commodores before losing to the Butler Bulldogs.\u00a0 Canaan is the offensive leader, averaging 19 points a game and shooting 46 percent from beyond the arc.\u00a0 Murray State earned a bid to the event in winning its third straight Ohio Vally Conference regular season championship.\u00a0 The Racers captured a 58-41 win over the Colorado State Rams as five-point favorites in the second round on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Marquette earned a convincing 88-68 win over the BYU Cougars in the second round and have now gone \u201cover\u201d the total in eight of the last 10 games.\u00a0 The Golden Eagles have matched up with the Racers just once in school history, posting an 82-62 victory in the 1969 NCAA Tournament.\u00a0 Senior Jae Crowder has been awesome down the stretch in earning Big East Player of the Year honors, while scoring 25 points and grabbing 16 rebounds in 35 minutes versus the Cougars.\u00a0 Marquette is 11-10 ATS when playing on a neutral court the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Golden Eagles are playing in their seventh-straight NCAA Tournament and will be looking to advance to the Sweet 16 for the second-straight season.\u00a0 Marquette is known as a physical team and Murray State head coach Steve Prohm knows his team must match the intensity.\u00a0 \u201cThey are some physical, physical guys,\u201d commented Prohm on Friday.\u00a0 \u201cTheir style of play is about being physical and tough.\u201d\u00a0 Marquette shot 43.6 percent from the floor and held BYU to 37.9 percent shooting.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Racers due to their 4-0 ATS mark in the NCAA Tournament, while the Golden Eagles are 8-9 ATS in March the last two-plus years.<\/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. 6 Murray State Racers vs. No. 3 Marquette Golden Eagles Saturday, 3\/17\/12, 5:15 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Marquette -4.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Marquette -5 Opening Total:\u00a0 140 Current Total:\u00a0 142 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Murray State goes for its second win of the 2012 NCAA Tournament when taking on the 3rd […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[2497,6601,6600,5939,3943,1375,3,4147],"class_list":["post-22338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-east-conference","tag-isaiah-canaan","tag-jae-crowder","tag-kfc-yum-center","tag-marquette-golden-eagles","tag-murray-state-racers","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-ohio-valley-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22338","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=22338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22339,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22338\/revisions\/22339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}