{"id":27181,"date":"2013-01-08T21:42:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T02:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27181"},"modified":"2013-01-08T21:42:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T02:42:22","slug":"college-basketball-betting-picks-washington-huskies-vs-california-golden-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-betting-picks-washington-huskies-vs-california-golden-bears-27181\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Betting Picks: Washington Huskies vs. California Golden Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington Huskies at California Golden Bears
\nWednesday, 1\/9\/12, 11:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 California -6.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 California -6.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 142.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 142.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The California Golden Bears are 0-5 ATS at home this season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Washington is set to open conference play with three road games for just the fourth time in the last 70 years, as it comes off a 68-63 victory over the Washington State Cougars as 4.5-point underdogs Saturday, while going OVER the posted total of 127.5.\u00a0 The Huskies are eighth in the Pac-12 Conference in averaging 70.7 points per game, but that\u2019s the lowest average in the Romar era.\u00a0 Washington is 8-5 ATS as an underdog over the last two-plus seasons, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NCAA basketball picks Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

The Huskies have four players averaging double figures, with junior guard C.J. Wilcox scoring 18.4 points per game, but he\u2019s been limited to 12.8 on the road.\u00a0 It\u2019s still important to note that Wilcox has scored 20-plus points in seven of the last 10 games.\u00a0 Washington is 7-0 on the season when shooting 50 percent or better from the field, while going 2-5 when failing to hit that mark.\u00a0 The program is 3-9 all-time in Berkeley under Romar\u2019s direction, but it did manage to earn a 92-71 win as six-point road favorites in its last trip on Jan. 16, 2011.<\/p>\n

California is set to play its Pac-12 home opener after splitting its Southern California road trip, which included a 72-64 victory over the USC Trojans as one-point underdogs Saturday, while going OVER the total for the first time in three contests.\u00a0 The Golden Bears are second in the Pac-12 in rebounding in averaging 40.2 boards per game, as they\u2019ve won the battle of the boards in 12 of their 14 games.\u00a0 California is 0-5 ATS at home this season, but 6-1 ATS when playing where the total is 140 to 144.5 at Haas Pavilion.<\/p>\n

The Golden Bears are led by the talented backcourt duo of Justin Cobbs and Allen Crabbe, as they\u2019ve combined to score 518 of the team\u2019s 995 points.\u00a0 Crabbe is a player to watch in the second half\u2014recording 16 or more points in the final 20 minutes in five games this season.\u00a0 He ranks fourth on the school\u2019s all-time list with 169 3-point field goals made.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Golden Bears due to the favorite being 5-1 ATS in the last six meetings in this series, while the Huskies are 1-6-1 ATS following a straight-up win.<\/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":"

Washington Huskies at California Golden Bears Wednesday, 1\/9\/12, 11:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 California -6.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 California -6.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 142.5 Current Total:\u00a0 142.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Washington is set to open conference play with three road games for just the fourth time in the last 70 years, as […]<\/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":[5816,5981,2958,4233,7216,5263,563],"class_list":["post-27181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-allen-crabbe","tag-c-j-wilcox","tag-california-golden-bears","tag-haas-pavilion","tag-justin-cobbs","tag-pac-12-conference","tag-washington-huskies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27181","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=27181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27182,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27181\/revisions\/27182"}],"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=27181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}