{"id":26436,"date":"2012-11-29T13:29:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=26436"},"modified":"2012-11-29T13:29:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:29:42","slug":"ncaa-basketball-picks-marquette-golden-eagles-vs-florida-gators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-picks-marquette-golden-eagles-vs-florida-gators-26436\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Picks: Marquette Golden Eagles vs. Florida Gators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marquette Golden Eagles at No. 7 Florida Gators
\nThursday, 11\/29\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Florida -10
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Florida -11
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 136.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 138.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker
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The Florida Gators will be facing a revenge-minded opponent on Thursday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Marquette travels to Florida Thursday night for a SEC\/Big East Challenge matchup, while it also serves as a rematch of last year\u2019s NCAA Sweet 16 encounter.\u00a0 The Golden Eagles suffered a 68-58 loss as one-point favorites in that affair, with the game going UNDER the posted total of 148.\u00a0 \u201cTwo total different teams,\u201d stated Gators head coach Billy Donovan this week.\u00a0 The team is being sparked by its bench in winning five of its first six games this season, as the group is averaging 35.0 points and 22.0 rebounds per game.\u00a0 Marquette is 13-4 ATS as an underdog over the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 11-6 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Golden Eagles have been led offensively by Davante Gardner, who has appeared off the bench in all six outings, averaging 14.0 points per game.\u00a0 Marquette has a total of 10 players averaging at least 10 minutes per game, while seven are contributing at least 5.3 points per night.\u00a0 Dating back to the start of the 2008-09 campaign, the program is 75-7 when finishing the game with a field goal percentage even-or-better than its opponents.<\/p>\n

Florida owns a perfect 5-0 record to start the year, as it comes off a 79-66 win over the UCF Knights as 16-point home favorites.\u00a0 The Gators are 16-10 against current Big East Conference teams under Donovan\u2019s direction, while going 2-2 ATS in that situation since 2010.\u00a0 Offensively, the team welcomed back three starters from a year ago, with senior guard Kenny Boynton leading the way in averaging 16.2 points per game.\u00a0 Florida is 2-3 ATS as a home favorite of 9.5 to 12 points over the last two-plus seasons, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NCAA basketball picks on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The Gators are shooting 46.2 percent from the floor this season, which includes knocking down 18 of their first 24 shots against the Wisconsin Badgers earlier this year\u2014a team that led the nation in scoring defense a year ago.\u00a0 Florida\u2019s first five wins have come by an average of 23.8 points, which is something to consider when looking at the college basketball odds page.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, with the OVER going 20-8 in the Gators\u2019 last 28 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":"

Marquette Golden Eagles at No. 7 Florida Gators Thursday, 11\/29\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Florida -10 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Florida -11 Opening Total:\u00a0 136.5 Current Total:\u00a0 138.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Marquette travels to Florida Thursday night for a SEC\/Big East Challenge matchup, while it also serves as a rematch of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[2497,3881,7210,499,5741,3943,739],"class_list":["post-26436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-east-conference","tag-billy-donovan","tag-davante-gardner","tag-florida-gators","tag-kenny-boynton","tag-marquette-golden-eagles","tag-sec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26436","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=26436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26437,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26436\/revisions\/26437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}