{"id":26725,"date":"2012-12-18T12:17:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T17:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=26725"},"modified":"2012-12-18T12:17:05","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T17:17:05","slug":"ncaa-basketball-picks-ucsb-gauchos-vs-california-golden-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-picks-ucsb-gauchos-vs-california-golden-bears-26725\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Picks: UCSB Gauchos vs. California Golden Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"

UCSB Gauchos at California Golden Bears
\nTuesday, 12\/18\/12, 11:00 PM EST, TV: Pac-12 Networks
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 California -13
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 California -13
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The California Golden Bears will try to snap their three-game losing streak Tuesday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

UCSB has alternated wins and losses over its last four games, as it prepares to travel to Berkeley on Tuesday night after picking up an 87-60 win over San Diego Christian.\u00a0 The Gauchos set a season-high with 13 three-point baskets in that contest, while Alan Williams led the way with 24 points and 12 rebounds.\u00a0 The program is 1-4 on the road this season, with the only win coming in overtime over Santa Clara on Dec. 1.\u00a0 UCSB is 3-1 ATS as a road underdog of 12.5 or more points over the last two-plus season, which must be considered when making your college basketball picks against the spread.<\/p>\n

The Gauchos are very young this year, with Williams being a sophomore, while their second-leading scorer is freshman Taran Brown.\u00a0 First or second-year players have scored 444 of the team\u2019s 608 points this season, which is 73.1 percent of the scoring.\u00a0 UCSB has been dealing with numerous injuries in the early going, including junior forward Keegan Hornbuckle, who continues to be sidelined with an ankle injury.<\/p>\n

California looks to get back on track after losing three games in a row, including a 74-64 setback to the Creighton Bluejays as 1.5-point home underdogs on Saturday night, while going OVER the total in its last three opportunities.\u00a0 Five of the Golden Bears\u2019 six wins this year have come by double digits, while they\u2019ve out-rebounded seven of their first nine opponents overall.\u00a0 California is 8-5 ATS as a home favorite of 12.5 or more points over the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Golden Bears are still dangerous on the college basketball odds page due to the junior guard duo of Allen Crabbe and Justin Cobbs, as they are averaging 38.8 points per game.\u00a0 Crabe is the Pac-12 Conference\u2019s leading scorer, with his numbers being helped by hitting 84.6 percent of his shots from the charity stripe.\u00a0 California has scored 643 points through nine games, with this tandem accounting for 349 of them.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Golden Bears due to their 8-5 ATS mark as a home favorite of 12.5 or more points, while the Gauchos are 2-4 ATS as an underdog.<\/p>\n

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UCSB Gauchos at California Golden Bears Tuesday, 12\/18\/12, 11:00 PM EST, TV: Pac-12 Networks Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 California -13 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 California -13 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker UCSB has alternated wins and losses over its last four games, as it prepares to travel to Berkeley on Tuesday night […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":26011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[7244,5816,2958,7216,5263,4133],"class_list":["post-26725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-alan-williams","tag-allen-crabbe","tag-california-golden-bears","tag-justin-cobbs","tag-pac-12-conference","tag-ucsb-gauchos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26725","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=26725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26726,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26725\/revisions\/26726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}