{"id":27320,"date":"2013-01-17T12:42:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T17:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27320"},"modified":"2013-01-17T12:42:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T17:42:41","slug":"college-basketball-picks-florida-gators-vs-texas-am-aggies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-florida-gators-vs-texas-am-aggies-27320\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Florida Gators vs. Texas A&M Aggies"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 10 Florida Gators at Texas A&M Aggies
\nThursday, 1\/17\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Florida -9.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Florida -10
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 122.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 122.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Florida Gators have four starters averaging in double figures offensively<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Florida has won four games in a row, including a 74-52 victory over the LSU Tigers as 11-point road favorites last time out, while going UNDER the total for the first time in four opportunities.\u00a0 \u201cJust wait until we have everybody healthy,\u201d commented Gators center Pat Young.\u00a0 The Gators are expected to have Mike Rosario back in the lineup for this affair, as he\u2019s one of four probable starters averaging double figures for this squad, with senior guard Kenny Boynton leading the way in scoring 13.8 points per game.\u00a0 Florida is 14-10 ATS on the road the last two-plus years, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your college basketball picks against the spread Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The Gators are in the midst of a stretch of playing four of five games away from Gainesville, as they\u2019ve been led by their defense the entire year, allowing just 52.0 points per game.\u00a0 Florida is shooting a solid 48.3 percent from the floor this season, as it leads the Southeastern Conference in averaging 8.1 3-pointers made per game.\u00a0 Boynton ranks first among active players in the conference with 1,782 career points, while hitting 295 shots from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n

Texas A&M also enters on a four-game win streak, which includes an impressive 83-71 win over the Kentucky Wildcats as 15-point road underdogs, while going OVER the posted total of 127.\u00a0 The Aggies were led offensively by Elston Turner, who scored a career-high 40 points, as he\u2019s now reached double figures in scoring in 38 of 47 career games.\u00a0 He has gotten some help from junior guard Fabyon Harris recently, as he\u2019s posted double-figure points in five of his last six games.\u00a0 Texas A&M is 15-9 ATS at home over the last two-plus seasons, which is something to consider when looking over the college basketball odds page.<\/p>\n

The Aggies are 66-13 at Reed Arena since the start of the 2008-09 season, which includes a solid 23-11 mark at home.\u00a0 Texas A&M ranks just behind Florida in defense, surrendering just 59.4 points per game.\u00a0 The squad must continue to take care of the basketball, averaging 9.7 turnovers over their last three games, as Florida leads all conference members in that category.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total, as the OVER is 7-3 in the Gators\u2019 last 10 road games versus a team with a winning home 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":"

No. 10 Florida Gators at Texas A&M Aggies Thursday, 1\/17\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Florida -9.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Florida -10 Opening Total:\u00a0 122.5 Current Total:\u00a0 122.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Florida has won four games in a row, including a 74-52 victory over the LSU Tigers as 11-point road favorites […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":26004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[6430,499,5741,7259,4117,7317,1145],"class_list":["post-27320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-elston-turner","tag-florida-gators","tag-kenny-boynton","tag-mike-rosario","tag-reed-arena","tag-southeastern-conference-sec","tag-texas-am-aggies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27320","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=27320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27321,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27320\/revisions\/27321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}