{"id":26500,"date":"2012-12-04T04:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=26500"},"modified":"2012-12-03T19:53:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T00:53:33","slug":"college-basketball-picks-against-the-spread-southern-miss-golden-eagles-vs-arizona-wildcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-against-the-spread-southern-miss-golden-eagles-vs-arizona-wildcats-26500\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks Against the Spread: Southern Miss Golden Eagles vs. Arizona Wildcats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Southern Miss Golden Eagles at No. 8 Arizona Wildcats
\nTuesday, 12\/4\/12, 9:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 Pac-12 Network
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Arizona -16
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Arizona -16
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Arizona Wildcats are explosive on the offensive end this year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Southern Miss plays the second game of a three-game road trip on Tuesday night, coming off a 68-60 setback to New Mexico State as 5.5-point underdogs.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s the most talented team we\u2019ve played so far,\u201d commented Golden Eagles first-year head coach Donnie Tyndall.\u00a0 The Golden Eagles are led offensively by senior guard Dwayne Davis, who is averaging 15.1 points per game.\u00a0 Southern Miss is 9-8 ATS as an underdog since the 2010 campaign, which should be considered when looking at the college basketball odds page.<\/p>\n

The Golden Eagles are scoring 64.9 points per game, but allowing just 58.9.\u00a0 Southern Miss is doing a fantastic job in defending the perimeter, as it leads all Conference USA teams in allowing opponents to shoot just 28.4 percent from beyond the arc.\u00a0 The program returned just four players from last year\u2019s squad, with that group having just six years of Division I experience.<\/p>\n

Arizona ranks sixth nationally in scoring offense, averaging 85.2 points per game, as it returns to the McKale Center after picking up an 85-57 victory over the Texas Tech Red Raiders as 12-point road favorites.\u00a0 The Wildcats out-rebounded the Red Raiders by a 41-26 advantage, as they\u2019ve recruited size under head coach Sean Miller.\u00a0 \u201cUntil you go through that 35-game season being small, you don\u2019t realize how important size is,\u201d stated Miller in practice this week.\u00a0 Arizona is 20-12 ATS in non-conference action the last two-plus years, with the UNDER going 15-11 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats have four players averaging in double figures, with Solomon Hill and Mark Lyons both averaging 14.0 points per game.\u00a0 Sophomore guard Nick Johnson has also really turned it on, averaging the same amount of points and 4.0 rebounds and 4.0 assists in his last two games.\u00a0 Offensively, the team shot 57.1 percent combined from the floor over its last two contests, while seven of its 10-man rotation have field goal percentages of 50 percent or better.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Wildcats due to their 4-1 ATS mark versus Conference USA foes, while the Golden Eagles are 0-6 ATS after a SU loss.<\/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":"

Southern Miss Golden Eagles at No. 8 Arizona Wildcats Tuesday, 12\/4\/12, 9:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 Pac-12 Network Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Arizona -16 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Arizona -16 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Southern Miss plays the second game of a three-game road trip on Tuesday night, coming off a 68-60 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":26012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[578,2558,7221,5942,5650,4102,6040,3976],"class_list":["post-26500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-arizona-wildcats","tag-conference-usa","tag-dwyane-davis","tag-mark-lyons","tag-mckale-center","tag-sean-miller","tag-solomon-hill","tag-southern-miss-golden-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26500","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=26500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26501,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26500\/revisions\/26501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}