{"id":26469,"date":"2012-11-30T18:50:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T23:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=26469"},"modified":"2012-11-30T18:50:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T23:50:28","slug":"college-basketball-betting-predictions-saint-josephs-hawks-vs-creighton-bluejays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-betting-predictions-saint-josephs-hawks-vs-creighton-bluejays-26469\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Betting Predictions: Saint Joseph’s Hawks vs. Creighton Bluejays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saint Joseph\u2019s Hawks at No. 11 Creighton Blue Jays
\nSaturday, 12\/1\/12, 3:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Creighton -6.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Creighton -5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Creighton Bluejays are capable of bouncing back from their first loss of the season on Saturday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Saint Joseph\u2019s is coming off a 74-55 win over American on Wednesday, as the team continues to be led by forward Ronald Roberts, who is averaging double-double with 13.5 points and 10.8 rebounds per game.\u00a0 The Hawks have held all but one of their opponents below 40 percent from the floor and 70 points in regulation.\u00a0 \u201cWe just gotta go out there and play tough defense,\u201d commented Hawks guard Langston Galloway.\u00a0 Saint Joseph\u2019s is 26-12 ATS in its last 38 games, which is something to keep in mind when making your college basketball picks against the spread on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Hawks begin a three-game road swing with this contest, as they will also visit Coppin State and Villanova in the next two weeks.\u00a0 Saint Joseph\u2019s is shooting 46.0 percent from the floor this season, while holding opponents to a 38.8 percent mark.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that senior Carl Jones made his first start of the year against American, scoring 16 points after missing the first two regular-season games due to a university violation.<\/p>\n

Creighton will look to bounce back from an 83-70 setback to the Boise State Broncos as 13-point home favorites, as the team may have lost focus after picking up a pair of neutral-site wins over Arizona State and Wisconsin.\u00a0 \u201cI think we celebrated too much, those wins,\u201d stated Bluejays forward Doug McDermott.\u00a0 He is the nation\u2019s only returning consensus first-team All-American, as well as college basketball\u2019s top returning scorer from a year ago.\u00a0 Creighton is 12-3 ATS following a straight-up loss, while the OVER is 7-2 in the team\u2019s last nine home games.<\/p>\n

The Blue Jays are 4-5 all-time against the Hawks, but they\u2019ve managed to win four of the past five encounters, but suffered an 80-71 defeat as one-point road favorites last year.\u00a0 Creighton has compiled a dominating 69-8 record in non-conference games since CenturyLink Center Omaha opened, while the program hasn\u2019t lost back-to-back home games since 1996.\u00a0 The program ranks 12th nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio, which is two spots ahead of this Saturday\u2019s opponent.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Bluejays due to their 5-0 ATS mark following a double-digit home loss, while the Hawks are 2-5 ATS on the road versus winning home teams.<\/p>\n

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Saint Joseph\u2019s Hawks at No. 11 Creighton Blue Jays Saturday, 12\/1\/12, 3:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Creighton -6.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Creighton -5 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Saint Joseph\u2019s is coming off a 74-55 win over American on Wednesday, as the team continues to be led […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[6379,7215,4797,5798,6380,4046],"class_list":["post-26469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-carl-jones","tag-centurylink-center-omaha","tag-creighton-bluejays","tag-doug-mcdermott","tag-langston-galloway","tag-saint-josephs-hawks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26469","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=26469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26470,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26469\/revisions\/26470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}