{"id":26403,"date":"2012-11-28T06:30:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T11:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=26403"},"modified":"2012-11-27T21:38:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T02:38:25","slug":"ncaa-basketball-picks-virginia-cavaliers-vs-wisconsin-badgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-picks-virginia-cavaliers-vs-wisconsin-badgers-26403\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Picks: Virginia Cavaliers vs. Wisconsin Badgers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virginia Cavaliers at Wisconsin Badgers
\nWednesday, 11\/28\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Wisconsin -9.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Wisconsin -9.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 111
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 112
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Wisconsin Badgers are nearly unbeatable at the Kohl Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Virginia has won three games in a row and will now try to improve upon its 7-5 all-time record in the ACC\/Big Ten Challenge, as it comes off an 80-64 victory over North Texas as 6.5-point home favorites.\u00a0 The Cavaliers had five players score in double figures, while the team shot season-bests from the floor and three-point line.\u00a0 Junior guard Joe Harris is the player to watch offensively, averaging 15.0 points and 4.5 rebounds per game.\u00a0 Virginia is 3-1 ATS as a road underdog of 9.5 to 12 points over the last two-plus seasons, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NCAA basketball picks on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers are 2-4 on the road in this event, while they\u2019ve compiled a 13-19 record away from home in four years under coach Tony Bennett.\u00a0 Virginia went 7-4 on the road last season\u2014with the seven wins being the most for the program since the 1986-87 campaign.\u00a0 Harris must be defended on the perimeter due to hitting a career-high 51.9 percent of his shots from beyond the arc this year.<\/p>\n

Wisconsin has gone 85-6 against non-conference opponents inside the Kohl Center under coach Bo Ryan, as it comes off a 77-70 win over the Arkansas Razorbacks as 8.5-point neutral-site favorites.\u00a0 The Badgers are 9-7 against ACC teams in the Ryan era, while they\u2019ve gone 6-7 all-time in this particular event.\u00a0 Senior center Jared Berggren is averaging a team-high 15.2 points and leads the Big Ten with 15 blocks in six games.\u00a0 Wisconsin is 19-9 ATS in non-conference action since 2010, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college basketball odds page.<\/p>\n

The Badgers and Cavaliers have split their two previous meetings, but Bennett is certainly familiar with the program, as his dad was head coach at Wisconsin for five-plus seasons from 1996 to 2000.\u00a0 Wisconsin\u2019s .918 home winning streak since 2001-02 ranks fourth nationally.\u00a0 It\u2019s also important to note that 127 of the team\u2019s last 169 home wins have come by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Cavaliers due to their 5-2 ATS mark versus Big Ten foes, while the Badgers are 4-9 ATS in their last 13 games following a SU win.<\/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":"

Virginia Cavaliers at Wisconsin Badgers Wednesday, 11\/28\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Wisconsin -9.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Wisconsin -9.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 111 Current Total:\u00a0 112 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Virginia has won three games in a row and will now try to improve upon its 7-5 all-time record in the ACC\/Big Ten […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":26007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[387,3442,5886,7206,6042,2977,437],"class_list":["post-26403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-bo-ryan","tag-joe-harris","tag-kohl-center","tag-virginia-cavaliers","tag-wisconsin-badgers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26403","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=26403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26405,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26403\/revisions\/26405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}