{"id":27514,"date":"2013-01-27T11:36:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T16:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27514"},"modified":"2013-01-27T11:36:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T16:36:15","slug":"ncaa-basketball-picks-michigan-state-spartans-vs-indiana-hoosiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-picks-michigan-state-spartans-vs-indiana-hoosiers-27514\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Picks: Michigan State Spartans vs. Indiana Hoosiers"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 13 Michigan State Spartans at No. 7 Indiana Hoosiers
\nSunday, 1\/27\/12, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -9.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -9.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 135.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 135.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Indiana Hoosiers are 1-6 ATS in their last seven games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Michigan State will put its six-game win streak on the line Sunday, as it comes off an impressive 49-47 victory over the Wisconsin Badgers as five-point road underdogs, while going UNDER the total for a second consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Spartans have won three straight games away from East Lansing, but have dropped five of their last seven trips to Assembly Hall.\u00a0 The squad has outscored 17 of its 20 opponents in the paint this year.\u00a0 Michigan State is 12-7 ATS as an underdog the last two-plus seasons, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NCAA basketball picks Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Spartans are 6-1 in games decided by five points or less, including a 3-0 mark versus Big Ten Conference play.\u00a0 Michigan State has three players averaging in double figures, with junior point guard Keith Appling scoring 14.1 points per game, as he\u2019s been the team\u2019s leading scorer 11 times.\u00a0 Head coach Tom Izzo is 18-11 in his career against Indiana, including wins in six of the last seven games in the series.<\/p>\n

Indiana has won back-to-back conference games, including a 72-49 blowout victory over the Penn State Nittany Lions as 24-point home favorites, but it\u2019s important to note that the program has failed to cover the spread in six of its last seven contests.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s a hard league,\u201d commented Hoosiers coach Tom Crean.\u00a0 The Hoosiers have been getting it done on the defensive end during Big Ten competition, as they\u2019ve held opponents to 36.9 percent shooting from the floor.\u00a0 Indiana is 1-4 ATS as a home favorite of 6.5 to 9 points since 2010, which is something to consider when looking over the college basketball odds page.<\/p>\n

The Hoosiers are the only team in the country to rank in the top ten in field goal percentage and field goal percentage defense, which has led directly to an average point differential of 23.8 points per game.\u00a0 Indiana has compiled a dominating 30-2 record at home the last two years, with center Cody Zeller being the main player, as he ranks seventh in the country in knocking down 61 percent of his shots.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Hoosiers due to the home team covering the spread in 16 of the last 21 meetings.<\/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. 13 Michigan State Spartans at No. 7 Indiana Hoosiers Sunday, 1\/27\/12, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -9.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -9.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 135.5 Current Total:\u00a0 135.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Michigan State will put its six-game win streak on the line Sunday, as it comes off an impressive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4011,3442,5922,2485,5831,500,4114,778],"class_list":["post-27514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-assembly-hall","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-cody-zeller","tag-indiana-hoosiers","tag-keith-appling","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-tom-crean","tag-tom-izzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27514","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=27514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27515,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27514\/revisions\/27515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}