{"id":27595,"date":"2013-02-01T21:20:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T02:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27595"},"modified":"2013-02-01T21:20:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T02:20:39","slug":"college-basketball-picks-michigan-wolverines-vs-indiana-hoosiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-michigan-wolverines-vs-indiana-hoosiers-27595\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Michigan Wolverines vs. Indiana Hoosiers"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 1 Michigan Wolverines at No. 3 Indiana Hoosiers
\nSaturday, 2\/2\/13, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -4.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -4
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 145
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 143
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Michigan Wolverines are 22-11 ATS as underdogs the last two-plus seasons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Michigan has won four games in a row since suffering its only setback of the season, as it comes off a convincing 68-46 victory over the Northwestern Wildcats as 15-point home favorites, while going UNDER the total in five of its last six contests.\u00a0 The Wolverines are led by guard Trey Burke on the offensive end, who is averaging 17.9 points and 7.1 assists per game.\u00a0 \u201cI know guys are ready,\u201d stated Burke this week about this particular matchup.\u00a0 The team\u2019s 20-1 start is the best in program history, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your college basketball picks against the spread.\u00a0 Michigan is 22-11 ATS as an underdog the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Wolverines have gone 23-19 away from Ann Arbor over the last three seasons, which is important to consider when looking over the college basketball betting lines Saturday night.\u00a0 Michigan is averaging 78.0 points per game, which currently ranks as the highest per-game average under coach John Beilein since he arrived on campus,\u00a0 The team has won its 20 games this year by an average margin of 19.4 points per game, which is the third-best point differential in the country.<\/p>\n

Indiana has also won four consecutive games entering the first-ever matchup between two teams ranked in the top three in the history of Assembly Hall, as it comes off a 97-60 blowout victory over the Purdue Boilermakers as 7.5-point road favorites.\u00a0 The Hoosiers have compiled a dominating 31-2 record at this venue over the last two years, which includes a 2-1 ATS mark as favorites of 3.5 to 6 points.\u00a0 Indiana is 2-6 ATS versus Big Ten Conference foes during the 2012-13 campaign.<\/p>\n

The Hoosiers have been led by Victor Oladipo recently, as he averaged 20.0 points and 6.5 rebounds in two games last week, which earned him conference honors for that period.\u00a0 Indiana leads the nation in outscoring opponents by 23.5 points per game, as its offense enters averaging 84.0 points per game.\u00a0 Sophomore center Cody Zeller is another key player to watch, averaging 16.1 points and 8.2 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Hoosiers due to the home team covering the spread in five of the last seven meetings in this series.<\/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. 1 Michigan Wolverines at No. 3 Indiana Hoosiers Saturday, 2\/2\/13, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -4.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -4 Opening Total:\u00a0 145 Current Total:\u00a0 143 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Michigan has won four games in a row since suffering its only setback of the season, as it comes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4011,3442,5922,2485,468,7202,7354],"class_list":["post-27595","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-michigan-wolverines","tag-trey-burke","tag-victor-oladipo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27595","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=27595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27596,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27595\/revisions\/27596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}