{"id":27571,"date":"2013-01-31T16:18:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T21:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27571"},"modified":"2013-01-31T16:18:29","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T21:18:29","slug":"college-basketball-predictions-gonzaga-bulldogs-vs-loyola-marymount-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-predictions-gonzaga-bulldogs-vs-loyola-marymount-lions-27571\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Predictions: Gonzaga Bulldogs vs. Loyola Marymount Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 7 Gonzaga Bulldogs at Loyola Marymount Lions
\nThursday, 1\/31\/12, 11:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Gonzaga -16.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Gonzaga -15.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 142
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 142.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Gonzaga Bulldogs are second in the nation in field goal percentage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gonzaga has won back-to-back games since suffering a one-point road loss to Butler, as it comes off a 66-52 victory over San Francisco as 20-point home favorites, while going UNDER the total for a fourth consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Bulldogs have three probable starters averaging in double figures, with junior center Kelly Olynyk leading the way, scoring 18.2 points per game.\u00a0 He has managed to average 25.0 points over his last five games, including a 26-point performance against BYU two games back.\u00a0 Gonzaga is 11-14 ATS on the road the last two-plus seasons, which is important to consider when looking over the college basketball betting lines Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs have gone 26-3 versus the Lions under the direction of head coach Mark Few, while they\u2019ve won 34 of the last 37 meetings dating back to 1996.\u00a0 Both of Gonzaga\u2019s losses this year have come to ranked teams, while it has managed to win its last three West Coast Conference games by double-digits.\u00a0 Offensively, the team ranks second in the country in shooting 51.1 percent from the field, trailing only the Creighton Bluejays in that category.<\/p>\n

Loyola Marymount has lost and failed to cover the spread in its last four games, as it suffered a 60-57 setback to the Pepperdine Waves as 5.5-point home favorites last time out, while going UNDER the total for the first time in four opportunities.\u00a0 The Lions have shot a combined 35.9 percent during their current funk, but have lost each one by nine or fewer points, which makes them a bit attractive in making your college basketball picks against the spread.\u00a0 Loyola Marymount is 1-7 ATS when playing with five or six days rest over the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 6-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Lions have three probable starters averaging in double figures, with junior guard Anthony Ireland leading the way, scoring 20.0 points per game, which ranks second in the WCC and 15th nationally.\u00a0 He does a lot of his damage at the charity stripe\u2014knocking down 81.4 percent of his attempts from that area.\u00a0 The program is 4-4 in its last eight games versus ranked opponents.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the OVER is 7-3-1 in the Lions last 11 games overall.<\/p>\n

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No. 7 Gonzaga Bulldogs at Loyola Marymount Lions Thursday, 1\/31\/12, 11:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Gonzaga -16.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Gonzaga -15.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 142 Current Total:\u00a0 142.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Gonzaga has won back-to-back games since suffering a one-point road loss to Butler, as it comes off a 66-52 victory […]<\/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":[6389,1202,7303,6387,768,3888],"class_list":["post-27571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-anthony-ireland","tag-gonzaga-bulldogs","tag-kelly-olynyk","tag-loyola-marymount-lions","tag-mark-few","tag-west-coast-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27571","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=27571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27572,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27571\/revisions\/27572"}],"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=27571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}