{"id":27197,"date":"2013-01-10T11:59:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T16:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27197"},"modified":"2013-01-10T11:59:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T16:59:37","slug":"college-basketball-predictions-saint-marys-gaels-vs-gonzaga-bulldogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-predictions-saint-marys-gaels-vs-gonzaga-bulldogs-27197\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Predictions: Saint Mary’s Gaels vs. Gonzaga Bulldogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saint Mary\u2019s Gaels at No. 9 Gonzaga Bulldogs
\nThursday, 1\/10\/12, 11:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Gonzaga -10
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Gonzaga -9.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 148.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 147.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Gonzaga Bulldogs are just 2-4 ATS as home favorites of 9.5 to 12 points<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Saint Mary\u2019s has won four consecutive games since suffering a loss at Northern Iowa, which includes a 74-61 victory over Loyola Marymount as 17-point home favorites, while going UNDER the total in two-straight contests.\u00a0 The Gaels are led by point guard Matthew Dellavedova, who is averaging 17.4 points and a West Coast Conference-leading 6.7 assists per game.\u00a0 He has compiled a remarkable 89-24 record as a starter since joining the program.\u00a0 Saint Mary\u2019s is 4-6 ATS as an underdog over the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 8-2 in those affairs.<\/p>\n

The Gaels will be trying to score 70 or more points against the Bulldogs, as they\u2019ve won 100 of their last 109 games over the last four years when reaching that mark.\u00a0 Saint Mary\u2019s is second in the league in scoring, while leading the WCC in shooting 76.5 percent from the charity stripe.\u00a0 Dellavedova, Tim Williams and Mitchell Young own a 92-24 mark as four-year players.<\/p>\n

Gonzaga returns home after sweeping through a three-game road trip, as the team has won six straight, including an 81-74 victory over the Santa Clara Broncos as 5.5-point favorites Saturday.\u00a0 The Bulldogs have gone OVER the total in five of their last seven opportunities, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college basketball odds page.\u00a0 The team holds a 54-27 all-time lead in this series, but has dropped four of the last seven meetings, including a 78-74 setback in the conference championship last year as two-point favorites.\u00a0 Gonzaga is 2-4 ATS as a home favorite of 9.5 to 12 points, with the UNDER going 4-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs are certainly one of the best offensive teams nationally, something to consider when making your college basketball picks against the spread, as they average 80.7 points per game.\u00a0 Gonzaga is shooting 51.5 percent from the field overall, with junior Kelly Olynyk hitting 83 of 123 shots this season.\u00a0 The squad is 55-2 at home in WCC games since the McCarthey Athletic Center opened for the 2004-05 campaign.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Gaels due to their 7-3 ATS record versus good offensive teams, while the Bulldogs are 6-9 ATS in January.<\/p>\n

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Saint Mary\u2019s Gaels at No. 9 Gonzaga Bulldogs Thursday, 1\/10\/12, 11:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Gonzaga -10 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Gonzaga -9.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 148.5 Current Total:\u00a0 147.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Saint Mary\u2019s has won four consecutive games since suffering a loss at Northern Iowa, which includes a 74-61 victory over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[1202,7303,6388,5729,1376,4229,3888],"class_list":["post-27197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-gonzaga-bulldogs","tag-kelly-olynyk","tag-matthew-dellavedova","tag-mccarthey-athletic-center","tag-saint-marys-gaels","tag-wcc","tag-west-coast-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27197","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=27197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27198,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27197\/revisions\/27198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}