{"id":26451,"date":"2012-11-30T09:35:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T14:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=26451"},"modified":"2012-11-30T09:35:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T14:35:58","slug":"ncaa-basketball-picks-syracuse-orange-vs-arkansas-razorbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-picks-syracuse-orange-vs-arkansas-razorbacks-26451\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Picks: Syracuse Orange vs. Arkansas Razorbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 6 Syracuse Orange at Arkansas Razorbacks
\nFriday, 11\/30\/12, 8:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Syracuse -8
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Syracuse -7.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 146.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 149
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Syracuse Orange are 3-2 ATS as road favorites of 6.5 to 9 points since 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Syracuse has won its first four outings this season, including an 87-51 victory against Colgate on Sunday, with point guard Michael Carter-Williams leading the way with 13 assists and only a single turnover.\u00a0 \u201cHe\u2019s getting better,\u201d stated Orange coach Jim Boeheim.\u00a0 \u201cHe\u2019s getting the ball in the right places.\u201d\u00a0 The Orange will certainly be tested in protecting the basketball in this affair, as the Razorbacks have forced the opposition into an average of 18.4 turnovers per game.\u00a0 Syracuse is 3-2 ATS as a road favorite of 6.5 to 9 points the last two-plus seasons, which has to be considered when making your college basketball picks against the spread on Friday night.<\/p>\n

The Orange are outscoring opponents by an average of 25.0 points per game, as they are shooting 47.1 percent from the field, while holding opponents to a 33.5 percent mark.\u00a0 Senior forward James Southerland enters this game as the team\u2019s leading scorer averaging 14.3 points per game, which includes a career-high 22 points in a 73-53 victory over the Princeton Tigers on Nov. 21.<\/p>\n

Arkansas returns home after suffering back-to-back losses to the Wisconsin Badgers and Arizona State Sun Devils in Las Vegas, but were pleased by the production out of sophomore guard BJ Young.\u00a0 He is averaging 20.5 points and 3.8 rebounds through five games.\u00a0 The Razorbacks know they must improve in a big way to pull off the upset in this spot, going against one of the premier programs in the nation.\u00a0 \u201cWhen you talk about the ultimate challenge, that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to face here,\u201d stated Razorbacks coach Mike Anderson this week.\u00a0 Arkansas is 1-4 ATS in November the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Razorbacks are shooting just 27.8 percent from beyond the arc this year, which will be difficult to improve on against an opponent that\u2019s holding opponents to 28.4 percent shooting in that category.\u00a0 Arkansas is 84-117 all-time against ranked opponents, which includes owning a 4-6 mark against teams ranked No. 6 in the AP poll.\u00a0 The program hopes to improve upon its even 1-1 record in the SEC\/Big East Challenge.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the UNDER is 5-2 in the Razorbacks last seven games versus Big East opponents.<\/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 Syracuse Orange at Arkansas Razorbacks Friday, 11\/30\/12, 8:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Syracuse -8 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Syracuse -7.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 146.5 Current Total:\u00a0 149 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Syracuse has won its first four outings this season, including an 87-51 victory against Colgate on Sunday, with point guard Michael […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[2448,559,7211,5689,7212,739,580],"class_list":["post-26451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-arkansas-razorbacks","tag-big-east","tag-bj-young","tag-james-southerland","tag-michael-carter-williams","tag-sec","tag-syracuse-orange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26451","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=26451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26452,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26451\/revisions\/26452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}