{"id":26397,"date":"2012-11-28T04:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=26397"},"modified":"2012-11-27T18:56:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T23:56:37","slug":"college-basketball-picks-michigan-state-spartans-vs-miami-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-michigan-state-spartans-vs-miami-hurricanes-26397\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Michigan State Spartans vs. Miami Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 13 Michigan State Spartans at Miami Hurricanes
\nWednesday, 11\/28\/12, 7:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami PK
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -2
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 127.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 127.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Miami Hurricanes are 2-4 ATS as home favorites of three points or less since 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Michigan State makes its third road trip of November, as it gets set to take on Miami in the ACC\/Big Ten Challenge inside the BankUnited Center on Wednesday night.\u00a0 The Spartans have won five games in a row since suffering a season-opening loss to Connecticut overseas, which includes a 63-60 win over Louisiana-Lafayette as 23-point home favorites on Sunday.\u00a0 \u201cI think our guys are going to be great citizens when they get done with basketball, because the Christmas season is lasting all year,\u201d stated Spartans coach Tom Izzo about his team\u2019s major problem of turning the ball over.\u00a0 Michigan State is 11-5 ATS as an underdog over the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Spartans are led offensively by guard Keith Appling, who is averaging 16.8 points and was the leading returning scorer coming into the 2012-13 campaign.\u00a0 Michigan State has never met Miami in this event, but has gone 6-6 in its 12 opportunities in playing in the Challenge.\u00a0 Defensively, the team is allowing opponents to shoot 37.3 percent form the floor, which is actually lower than the 37.9 percent mark it finished with last year in ranking second nationally in that category.<\/p>\n

Miami wraps up a three-game homestand in this affair, as it picked up a 77-62 victory over Detroit as seven-point home favorites last time out.\u00a0 The Hurricanes are 1-4 in this event, while ACC teams are 44-18 when playing on their home court, while the Big Ten is 35-26 in that situation.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re not a team that forces a lot of turnovers,\u201d commented Hurricanes coach Jim Larranaga.\u00a0 Miami is 2-4 ATS as a home favorite of three points or less since 2010, which is important to consider when making your college basketball picks against the spread.<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes are led offensively by sophomore guard Shane Larkin, who is averaging 17.3 points per game, while senior center Reggie Johnson is averaging 10.0 rebounds per game.\u00a0 Miami has shot better than 50 percent from the field in its three home games, which is significant due to the defensive pressure that Michigan State places on its opponent.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total, as the UNDER is 16-5-1 in the Spartans last 22 road games following three or more consecutive home games.<\/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 Michigan State Spartans at Miami Hurricanes Wednesday, 11\/28\/12, 7:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami PK Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -2 Opening Total:\u00a0 127.5 Current Total:\u00a0 127.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Michigan State makes its third road trip of November, as it gets set to take on Miami in the ACC\/Big […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[387,3442,5831,1083,500,5888,7205],"class_list":["post-26397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-keith-appling","tag-miami-hurricanes","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-reggie-johnson","tag-shane-larkin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26397","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=26397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26399,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26397\/revisions\/26399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}