{"id":26765,"date":"2012-12-20T18:02:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T23:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=26765"},"modified":"2012-12-20T18:02:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T23:02:33","slug":"ncaa-basketball-picks-florida-atlantic-owls-vs-indiana-hoosiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-picks-florida-atlantic-owls-vs-indiana-hoosiers-26765\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Picks: Florida Atlantic Owls vs. Indiana Hoosiers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida Atlantic Owls at Indiana Hoosiers
\nFriday, 12\/21\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -32.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -32.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 145
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 145
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Indiana Hoosiers are leading the country in point differential<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Florida Atlantic will play its final non-conference road game of the 2012-13 season Friday night, as it prepares to take on the sixth-ranked team in the country.\u00a0 The Owls have lost back-to-back games, including a 69-68 home loss to Stetson last time out.\u00a0 The program is 0-4 all-time against current members of the Big Ten Conference, with losses to Iowa, Minnesota, Northwestern and Ohio State.\u00a0 Florida Atlantic is 0-7 ATS in its last seven road games, which is hard to ignore when making your NCAA basketball picks.<\/p>\n

The Owls are led offensively by senior guard Greg Gantt, who is averaging 21.5 points and 5.8 rebounds per game.\u00a0 He is second on the school\u2019s all-time list in career points, which was helped by a 34-point performance last time out.\u00a0 Freshman guard Stefan Moody provides a major lift off the bench for this squad, which isn\u2019t surprising due to being the first Parade All-American to land at the school in its history.<\/p>\n

Indiana bounced back after suffering its first loss of the year on Saturday, as it tallied an impressive 93-54 victory over Mount St. Mary\u2019s as 30-point home favorites, while going OVER the total in consecutive contests.\u00a0 \u201cI was really proud of our team in the way that they responded,\u201d stated Hoosiers head coach Tom Crean.\u00a0 The Hoosiers have won 15 straight games at Assembly Hall, outscoring opponents by an average of 26.5 points.\u00a0 Indiana is 5-11 ATS in its last 16 games versus a team with a losing record.<\/p>\n

The Hoosiers lead the nation in scoring 89.2 points per game, while also pacing all teams in outscoring opponents by an average of 29.3 points.\u00a0 Indiana shot 70.6 percent in its last contest, which was the fourth-best single-game shooting percentage in program history.\u00a0 Junior Victor Oladipo has really come on in his last five games, averaging 16.0 points on 66.7 percent shooting.\u00a0 It\u2019s still important to point out that center Cody Zeller is still the leader offensively, averaging a team-best 15.7 points and 8.3 rebounds.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the OVER is 7-3 in the Hoosiers last 10 home games versus a team with a losing road record.<\/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":"

Florida Atlantic Owls at Indiana Hoosiers Friday, 12\/21\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -32.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -32.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 145 Current Total:\u00a0 145 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Florida Atlantic will play its final non-conference road game of the 2012-13 season Friday night, as it prepares to take on the […]<\/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":[4011,3442,5922,3957,7253,2485,7254],"class_list":["post-26765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-assembly-hall","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-cody-zeller","tag-florida-atlantic-owls","tag-greg-gantt","tag-indiana-hoosiers","tag-stefan-moody"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26765","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=26765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26766,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26765\/revisions\/26766"}],"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=26765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}