{"id":27076,"date":"2013-01-03T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27076"},"modified":"2013-01-03T12:00:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T17:00:27","slug":"ncaa-basketball-picks-penn-state-nittany-lions-vs-wisconsin-badgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-picks-penn-state-nittany-lions-vs-wisconsin-badgers-27076\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Picks: Penn State Nittany Lions vs. Wisconsin Badgers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Penn State Nittany Lions at Wisconsin Badgers
\nThursday, 1\/3\/12, 8:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 Big Ten Network
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Wisconsin -18
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Wisconsin -17.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 124
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 125.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Wisconsin Badgers have never lost to the Penn State Nittany Lions at the Kohl Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Penn State is riding a four-game win streak, which includes an impressive 84-74 win over the Duquesne Dukes as five-point home favorites Saturday, while going OVER the posted total of 133.\u00a0 The Nittany Lions are 7-13 all-time in Big Ten Conference openers, including a 3-9 mark when doing so on the road.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is averaging 78.5 points on 47 percent shooting over its last four outings.\u00a0 Penn State is 0-3 ATS as an underdog this year, with the OVER going 2-1 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Nittany Lions current streak of four straight games of 70-plus points is their longest since 2008.\u00a0 Penn State is 6-2 in the eight games since losing do-everything guard Tim Frazier for the season, but the squad has been boosted by its bench recently, including a season-high 25 points from its reserves last time out.\u00a0 Sophomore guard D.J. Newbill is the team\u2019s leading scorer, putting up double figures in points in 11 of 12 games this year.<\/p>\n

Wisconsin has won its last three games, including a dominating 87-51 victory over Samford as 29-point home favorites, while going OVER the total in consecutive contests.\u00a0 The Badgers have held each of their last 16 home opponents to 60 points or less, which is the longest active streak in college basketball.\u00a0 The program owns an impressive 174-16 record at the Kohl Center, including an 84-9 mark in conference play.\u00a0 Wisconsin is 0-2 ATS as a home favorite of 15.5 to 18 points over the last two-plus seasons, which is important to consider when making your NCAA basketball picks Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The Badgers have won 15 consecutive home games against the Nittany Lions, including a 12-0 mark at this facility.\u00a0 Wisconsin has held Penn State to an average of 52.0 points per game over the last 17 meetings.\u00a0 It\u2019s all about the field goal percentage for this squad, as it boasts a perfect 9-0 record when shooting better than its opponent, while going 0-4 when failing to do so.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Badgers due to their 12-7 ATS mark at home when the total is between 120 to 129.5, while the Nittany Lions are 7-14 ATS as road underdogs.<\/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":"

Penn State Nittany Lions at Wisconsin Badgers Thursday, 1\/3\/12, 8:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 Big Ten Network Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Wisconsin -18 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Wisconsin -17.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 124 Current Total:\u00a0 125.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Penn State is riding a four-game win streak, which includes an impressive 84-74 win over the Duquesne Dukes as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":26007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3442,7282,6042,497,437],"class_list":["post-27076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-d-j-newbill","tag-kohl-center","tag-penn-state-nittany-lions","tag-wisconsin-badgers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27076","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=27076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27078,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27076\/revisions\/27078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}