{"id":27354,"date":"2013-01-18T23:45:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T04:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27354"},"modified":"2013-01-18T23:45:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T04:45:23","slug":"college-basketball-picks-ohio-state-buckeyes-vs-michigan-state-spartans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-ohio-state-buckeyes-vs-michigan-state-spartans-27354\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Michigan State Spartans"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 11 Ohio State Buckeyes at No. 18 Michigan State Spartans
\nSaturday, 1\/19\/12, 6:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -1.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -2
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 130
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 130
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ohio State Buckeyes forward Deshaun Thomas leads the Big Ten Conference in averaging 20.3 points per game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ohio State has won its last two games, including a 56-53 victory over the Michigan Wolverines as two-point home favorites Sunday, while going UNDER the total for the fourth time in five contests.\u00a0 The Buckeyes have been led offensively by the play of forward Deshaun Thomas, who leads the Big Ten in scoring at 20.3 points per game.\u00a0 \u201cOpposing teams just try to do as much as they can to put different bodies on me,\u201d stated Thomas in practice this week.\u00a0 Ohio State is 6-2 ATS in its last eight Big Ten Conference games, something to consider when making your NCAA basketball picks Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Buckeyes have won four of their last six meetings with the Spartans, while also posting a 3-1 mark in their last four trips to East Lansing.\u00a0 Ohio State is 20-10 in the Michigan State series when playing as a ranked team, but just 5-6 when both teams land in that role.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is second in the conference in allowing just 57.8 points per game, while ranking third with a scoring margin of plus-16.8 points.<\/p>\n

Michigan State rides a four-game win streak into this affair, including an 81-72 victory over the Penn State Nittany Lions as 11-point road favorites last time out, while going OVER the total for the fourth time in five opportunities.\u00a0 The Spartans have compiled a dominating 321-45 record at the Breslin Center since 1989, which includes a 165-34 mark when facing conference rivals.\u00a0 Eight of the team\u2019s next 11 games will comes against foes currently ranked in the AP Top 25 Poll.<\/p>\n

The Spartans have done a great job of taking care of the basketball over the last four games, averaging just 10.5 turnovers in that span.\u00a0 Michigan State has four players averaging double figures offensively, with junior guard Keith Appling leading the way in scoring 13.7 points per game.\u00a0 The program owns a 65-54 all-time advantage in this series, including a 40-17 record when playing in front of the home fans.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Buckeyes due to their 4-1 ATS mark in their last five trips to East Lansing, while the favorite is 0-6 ATS in the last six meetings overall.<\/p>\n

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No. 11 Ohio State Buckeyes at No. 18 Michigan State Spartans Saturday, 1\/19\/12, 6:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -1.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -2 Opening Total:\u00a0 130 Current Total:\u00a0 130 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Ohio State has won its last two games, including a 56-53 victory over the Michigan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3442,3874,3884,5831,500,463],"class_list":["post-27354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-breslin-center","tag-deshaun-thomas","tag-keith-appling","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-ohio-state-buckeyes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27354","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=27354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27359,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27354\/revisions\/27359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}