{"id":26232,"date":"2012-11-19T04:30:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T09:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=26232"},"modified":"2012-11-18T20:20:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T01:20:30","slug":"college-basketball-picks-against-the-spread-ucla-bruins-vs-georgetown-hoyas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-against-the-spread-ucla-bruins-vs-georgetown-hoyas-26232\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks Against the Spread: UCLA Bruins vs. Georgetown Hoyas"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 13 UCLA Bruins vs. Georgetown Hoyas
\nMonday, 11\/19\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 UCLA -5.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 UCLA -6.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 128
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 131
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The UCLA Bruins are 15-12 SU all-time when playing in New York City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

UCLA has opened up its 2012-13 season with a 3-0 record, which includes a 100-70 blowout win over James Madison as 16-point home favorites on Thursday night.\u00a0 The Bruins are expected to have freshman Shabazz Muhammad in the lineup, who was penalized for accepting travel and lodging during unofficial visits to Duke and North Carolina.\u00a0 \u201cI am excited to play,\u201d commented Muhammed over the weekend.\u00a0 The program will play in New York City for the third consecutive season and the fourth time in the last five.\u00a0 UCLA is 0-2 ATS as a neutral court favorite of 6.5 to 9 points since 2010, which is something to watch when monitoring the college basketball odds.<\/p>\n

The Bruins have been led offensively by the play of freshman guard Jordan Adams, who has scored at least 20 points in each of their first three games.\u00a0 He has made 28 of 29 free throws this year, including each of his last 26 attempts.\u00a0 UCLA returned three starters from its 2011-12 team, while welcoming in ESPN.com\u2019s No. 1 recruiting class.\u00a0 The team has recorded a 15-12 all-time record when playing in the Big Apple, including 2-5 under head coach Ben Howland.<\/p>\n

Georgetown has won consecutive games to start the year, including a 68-59 victory over Liberty on Wednesday, as it hit 50 percent of its field goal attempts.\u00a0 \u201cWith all due respect to Liberty, we got some games coming up, and we\u2019re preparing for some teams that are little bit better than them,\u201d commented Hoyas forward Nate Lubick.\u00a0 The Hoyas could have Otto Porter back on the floor, who has been sitting out with concussion-like symptoms.\u00a0 Georgetown is 16-5 ATS in non-conference action the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Hoyas have lost both meetings against their opponent on Monday, as they hope freshman guard D\u2019Vauntes Smith-Rivera can continue to excel on the offensive end, as he leads the team in scoring with 15.0 points per game.\u00a0 Sophomore forward Greg Whittington is second on the roster in averaging 13.0 points per game and leads the team with 12.0 rebounds.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Hoyas due to their 15-5 ATS mark in neutral-site affairs, while the Bruins are 1-5 ATS in that situation.<\/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. 13 UCLA Bruins vs. Georgetown Hoyas Monday, 11\/19\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 UCLA -5.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 UCLA -6.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 128 Current Total:\u00a0 131 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker UCLA has opened up its 2012-13 season with a 3-0 record, which includes a 100-70 blowout win over James Madison as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3963,7166,1341,7167,7165,5837,7164,11],"class_list":["post-26232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-ben-howland","tag-dvauntes-smith-rivera","tag-georgetown-hoyas","tag-greg-whittington","tag-jordan-adams","tag-otto-porter","tag-shabazz-muhammad","tag-ucla-bruins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26232","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=26232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26234,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26232\/revisions\/26234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}