{"id":27004,"date":"2012-12-31T11:14:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T16:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27004"},"modified":"2012-12-31T11:14:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T16:14:45","slug":"college-basketball-predictions-indiana-hoosiers-vs-iowa-hawkeyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-predictions-indiana-hoosiers-vs-iowa-hawkeyes-27004\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Predictions: Indiana Hoosiers vs. Iowa Hawkeyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indiana Hoosiers at Iowa Hawkeyes
\nMonday, 12\/31\/12, 4:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -6.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 150
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 150
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Indiana Hoosiers are the highest-scoring team in the nation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Indiana has won three games in a row since suffering its first loss of the season to Butler, including a dominating 93-59 victory over Jacksonville on Friday.\u00a0 The Hoosiers will now play their first true road game of the 2012-13 college basketball season, which could be a major challenge due to numerous injuries on the roster.\u00a0 The team is 11-9 away from Assembly Hall since the start of last season.\u00a0 Indiana is 8-3 ATS on the year, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NCAA basketball picks Monday.<\/p>\n

The Hoosiers lead the nation in averaging 89.4 points per game, while also outscoring foes by an average of 30.2 points.\u00a0 Indiana\u2019s biggest improvement from last year to this one has been on the boards, as it leads the Big Ten Conference in rebounding margin with a 42.1 to 29.1 advantage.\u00a0 All-American Cody Zeller is the player to watch on both end of the floor, averaging 16.4 points and 7.9 rebounds per game, while shooting a remarkable 62.6 percent from the floor.<\/p>\n

Iowa is off to its best start since the 2004-05 campaign, wining six straight games, including an 80-50 blowout victory over Coppin State nine days ago.\u00a0 The Hawkeyes won that game by a large margin despite going 0 for 17 from beyond the arc, which is important to consider when looking over the college basketball odds page.\u00a0 \u201cA little surprised,\u201d stated Hawkeyes coach Fran McCaffery about his team\u2019s shooting from the perimeter.\u00a0 The program ranks fourth in the country in free throw makes and sixth in attempts.\u00a0 Iowa is 5-0 ATS in December this year.<\/p>\n

The Hawkeyes will be trying to hold the Hoosiers under the 80-point barrier, as they\u2019ve gone 16-2 when doing so over the last three seasons.\u00a0 Iowa has three players averaging in double figures the last three games, with Roy Devyn Marble leading the way, scoring 22.7 points per game during that stretch.\u00a0 The team has won 14 of its last 15 games, while proving victorious against ranked foes four times a year ago.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the Hoosiers have gone UNDER the total in five of their last six games with a number between 150 to 159.5.<\/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":"

Indiana Hoosiers at Iowa Hawkeyes Monday, 12\/31\/12, 4:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -6.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 150 Current Total:\u00a0 150 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Indiana has won three games in a row since suffering its first loss of the season to Butler, including a dominating 93-59 victory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":26017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3442,5922,2485,1281,7272],"class_list":["post-27004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-cody-zeller","tag-indiana-hoosiers","tag-iowa-hawkeyes","tag-roy-devyn-marble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27004","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=27004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27005,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27004\/revisions\/27005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}