{"id":26508,"date":"2012-12-04T17:23:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T22:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=26508"},"modified":"2012-12-04T17:23:21","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T22:23:21","slug":"college-basketball-picks-south-florida-bulls-vs-oklahoma-state-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-south-florida-bulls-vs-oklahoma-state-cowboys-26508\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: South Florida Bulls vs. Oklahoma State Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Florida Bulls at No. 23 Oklahoma State Cowboys
\nWednesday, 12\/5\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma State -11
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma State -11
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Oklahoma State Cowboys are 36-15-3 ATS in their last 54 home games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

South Florida takes its second road trip of the season, as it enters Wednesday night\u2019s contest on a three-game winning streak, which includes a 64-53 victory over the Georgia Bulldogs as 3.5-point home favorites.\u00a0 \u201cThis should be the stiffest challenge we\u2019ve had all year,\u201d stated Bulls coach Stan Heath.\u00a0 The Bulls are known for getting after it defensively, holding teams to 38.8 percent shooting and 58.7 points per game.\u00a0 South Florida is 6-1 ATS in its last seven road games, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking at the college football odds page.<\/p>\n

The Bulls are taking care of the basketball this year, as they\u2019ve only had 12 turnovers or higher in one games this season.\u00a0 South Florida has held 17 of its last 20 opponents to 60 points or less, which includes the program allowing just 56.6 points per game a year ago, which was a single-season record.\u00a0 Heath welcomed back four of his top five scorers from a year ago.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma State returns to Gallagher-Iba Arena for the first of six-straight home games, which is the first time the program will enjoy such a streak since the 1997-98 campaign.\u00a0 \u00a0 The Cowboys have a great opportunity to pick up a victory in this contest, considering the Bulls have lost 10 straight true road games against ranked teams by an average of 16.2 points per game.\u00a0 The team is also limiting opponents to just 61.7 points per game on 35.9 percent shooting from the floor.\u00a0 Oklahoma State is 36-15-3 ATS in its last 54 home games.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys are 37-27 all-time against Big East opponents, but have never faced the Bulls.\u00a0 Oklahoma State has compiled a formidable 315-45 record on this court since the 1988-89 season, including wins in 175 of its last 179 non-conference games.\u00a0 Of the program\u2019s last 12 losses at home, nine have been to ranked opponents, which is important to consider when making your college basketball picks against the spread.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is the only school in the Big 12 Conference to have three different players ranked among the league\u2019s top 21 in scoring.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Bulls due to their 6-1 ATS mark on the road versus winning home teams, while the Cowboys are 2-5 ATS at home versus a team with a road winning percent of 60 percent or better.<\/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":"

South Florida Bulls at No. 23 Oklahoma State Cowboys Wednesday, 12\/5\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma State -11 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma State -11 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker South Florida takes its second road trip of the season, as it enters Wednesday night\u2019s contest on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":3960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3267,559,6484,1141,1155],"class_list":["post-26508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-12-conference","tag-big-east","tag-gallagher-iba-arena","tag-oklahoma-state-cowboys","tag-south-florida-bulls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26508","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=26508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26509,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26508\/revisions\/26509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}