{"id":26665,"date":"2012-12-15T12:23:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T17:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=26665"},"modified":"2012-12-15T12:23:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T17:23:28","slug":"indiana-hoosiers-vs-butler-bulldogs-college-basketball-betting-odds-and-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/indiana-hoosiers-vs-butler-bulldogs-college-basketball-betting-odds-and-predictions-26665\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Hoosiers vs. Butler Bulldogs: College Basketball Betting Odds and Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 1 Indiana Hoosiers vs. Butler Bulldogs
\nSaturday, 12\/15\/12, 2:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -12.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -10.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 142
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 142.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Indiana Hoosiers are definitely the best team in the country at this point of the season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Indiana is off to a perfect 9-0 start in the 2012-13 college basketball season, as it comes off a 100-69 victory over Central Connecticut State a week ago.\u00a0 After nine games, the Hoosiers have improved 5.4 points scored, 5.0 fewer points allowed and gained 7.9 rebounds at the same juncture of the season a year ago.\u00a0 The program owns a 37-13 lead in this particular series, including a 75-59 victory as 13.5-point home favorites last year.\u00a0 Indiana is 6-1 ATS as a favorite this season, with the OVER going 3-2 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Hoosiers shot 61.5 percent from the arc in last year\u2019s meeting with the Bulldogs, with four players finishing in double figures in scoring.\u00a0 Sophomore All-American Cody Zeller had a career-best night on the boards last time out, posting 19 points and 19 rebounds.\u00a0 He is averaging a team-best 15.4 points and 8.9 rebounds.\u00a0 Indiana is expected to welcome Hanner Mosquera-Perea and Peter Jurkin to the floor, as the two freshmen completed their NCAA-imposed nine-game suspensions.<\/p>\n

Butler will face a team ranked No. 1 for just the fifth time in school history, as it looks to extend its current win streak to four games.\u00a0 \u201cThey\u2019re the top-ranked team for a reason, they\u2019re very deep,\u201d stated Bulldogs head coach Brad Stevens.\u00a0 The Bulldogs earned a 74-65 victory over the Northwestern Wildcats as 1.5-point road underdogs last time out, while going OVER the posted total of 127.\u00a0 The program has won five straight games inside Bankers Life Fieldhouse, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your college basketball picks against the spread.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs are 9-4 against Big Ten Conference teams under Stevens, which makes them a dangerous underdog when looking over the college basketball odds page.\u00a0 Senior Andrew Smith is the player to watch on the offensive end, averaging 15.0 points per game over the team\u2019s four-game win streak.\u00a0 Rotnei Clark also ranks third in the Atlantic 10 Conference in scoring.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Bulldogs due to their 20-6 ATS mark on a neutral floor, while the Hoosiers are 6-15-1 ATS in that situation.<\/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. 1 Indiana Hoosiers vs. Butler Bulldogs Saturday, 12\/15\/12, 2:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -12.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -10.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 142 Current Total:\u00a0 142.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Indiana is off to a perfect 9-0 start in the 2012-13 college basketball season, as it comes off a 100-69 victory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[5790,6433,1394,695,5922,2485,7240],"class_list":["post-26665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-andrew-smith","tag-bankers-life-fieldhouse","tag-brad-stevens","tag-butler-bulldogs","tag-cody-zeller","tag-indiana-hoosiers","tag-rotnei-clark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26665","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=26665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26666,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26665\/revisions\/26666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}