{"id":26732,"date":"2012-12-18T19:23:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T00:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=26732"},"modified":"2012-12-18T19:23:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T00:23:32","slug":"ncaa-basketball-predictions-xavier-musketeers-vs-cincinnati-bearcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-predictions-xavier-musketeers-vs-cincinnati-bearcats-26732\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Predictions: Xavier Musketeers vs. Cincinnati Bearcats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Xavier Musketeers vs. Cincinnati Bearcats
\nWednesday, 12\/19\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Cincinnati -8
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Cincinnati -7.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 135.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 134
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The favorite has covered the last four meetings between the Cincinnati Bearcats and Xavier Musketeers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Xavier has won four of its last five games, including a 62-55 victory over Kent State as eight-point home favorites.\u00a0 The Musketeers are 31-48 all-time against the Bearcats, but they\u2019ve won seven out of the last 10 meetings, including a 76-53 blowout win as 7.5-point home favorites last year.\u00a0 Freshman guard Semaj Christon is the player to watch offensively, averaging a team-high 15.8 points and 5.4 assists per game.\u00a0 Xavier is 3-12 ATS in December the last two-plus years, while the OVER is 8-7 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Musketeers are always going to be a dangerous underdog when looking over the college basketball betting odds, considering their one of four teams that have made the NCAA Sweet 16 four times in the last five years.\u00a0 This will be the 11th meeting between the two rivals at the U.S. Bank Arena, with each side winning three games apiece in the last six meetings.\u00a0 Xavier returned no starters from last year\u2019s team, but is still shooting 49.9 percent from the floor as a team.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati enters this high stakes game with a perfect 10-0 record to start the 2012-13 college basketball season, as it comes off a 72-56 victory over the Marshall Thundering Herd as 13-point neutral-site favorites Saturday.\u00a0 The Bearcats have three probable starters averaging in double figures, with junior guard Sean Kilpatrick leading the way, scoring 19.3 points per game.\u00a0 The program has the upper hand in terms of streaks at this venue, as it has proven victorious in its last 17 tries.\u00a0 Cincinnati is 3-0 ATS on a neutral floor this year, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NCAA basketball predictions.<\/p>\n

The Bearcats will lean on Kilpatrick on the offensive end, considering he\u2019s scored in double figures in all 10 games this season, but Cashmere Wright is dangerous on the perimeter, as he ranks third in the Big East Conference in shooting 47.5 percent from beyond the arc.\u00a0 Cincinnati has the nation\u2019s sixth-best scoring offense in averaging 83.0 points per game, while sitting seventh in allowing opponents to shoot 34.5 percent from the floor.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Bearcats due to the favorite covering the last four meetings in this series, while the Musketeers are 0-2 ATS when playing with seven or more days of rest.<\/p>\n

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Xavier Musketeers vs. Cincinnati Bearcats Wednesday, 12\/19\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Cincinnati -8 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Cincinnati -7.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 135.5 Current Total:\u00a0 134 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Xavier has won four of its last five games, including a 62-55 victory over Kent State as eight-point home favorites.\u00a0 The Musketeers are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[2497,1152,6130,7246,7247,1369],"class_list":["post-26732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-east-conference","tag-cincinnati-bearcats","tag-sean-kilpatrick","tag-semaj-christon","tag-u-s-bank-arena","tag-xavier-musketeers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26732","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=26732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26733,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26732\/revisions\/26733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}