{"id":27689,"date":"2013-02-09T11:21:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T16:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27689"},"modified":"2013-02-09T11:21:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T16:21:39","slug":"college-basketball-picks-pittsburgh-panthers-vs-cincinnati-bearcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-pittsburgh-panthers-vs-cincinnati-bearcats-27689\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Pittsburgh Panthers vs. Cincinnati Bearcats"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 23 Pittsburgh Panthers at No. 17 Cincinnati Bearcats
\nSaturday, 2\/9\/13, 6:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Cincinnati PK
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Cincinnati -1.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 121
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 123
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Pittsburgh Panthers are 5-2 ATS as road underdogs of three points or less the last two-plus seasons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pittsburgh has won six of its last seven games, including a 56-46 victory over the Seton Hall Pirates as 16.5-point home favorites last time out, while going UNDER the total for a third consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Panthers have already won more overall games (19) and more Big East Conference games (seven) than they did a year ago.\u00a0 The team has three starters averaging in double figures, with senior guard Tray Woodall leading the way in scoring 10.8 points per game.\u00a0 Pittsburgh is 5-2 ATS as a road underdog of three points or less the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Panthers have used a 10-player rotation for most of the season, with each member averaging 4.3 points or more and at least 11.9 minutes.\u00a0 Through 24 games, Pittsburgh has outscored its opponents by a plus-16.9 margin, while out-rebounding foes by an average of 8.5 boards per game.\u00a0 Defensively, the team has allowed 55.4 points over the last seven games, which is a big improvement from surrendering 64.0 in the first four league contests.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati returns home after earning a split of its recent two-game road trip, which includes a 54-50 defeat to the Providence Friars as four-point favorites Wednesday night, while going UNDER the total for the eight time in nine contests.\u00a0 \u201cWe started off sluggish,\u201d stated Bearcats guard Sean Kilpatrick.\u00a0 He is averaging a team-high 18.3 points per game, while JaQuon Parker (10.7) and Cashmere Wright (13.9) also score in double figures.\u00a0 Cincinnati is 4-0 ATS as a home favorite of three points or less the last two-plus years, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your college basketball picks against the spread Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Bearcats are worth a long look when checking out the college basketball betting lines, considering they\u2019ve won 10 of their last 15 games against ranked opponents.\u00a0 Since the 2010-11 campaign, Cincinnati is 6-1 in the second meeting against conference teams that it played earlier in the season.\u00a0 The program has dropped two of its last three home games in this particular series.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Bearcats due to their 5-2 ATS mark following a straight-up loss, while the Panthers are 3-8 ATS following a win.<\/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. 23 Pittsburgh Panthers at No. 17 Cincinnati Bearcats Saturday, 2\/9\/13, 6:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Cincinnati PK Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Cincinnati -1.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 121 Current Total:\u00a0 123 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Pittsburgh has won six of its last seven games, including a 56-46 victory over the Seton Hall Pirates as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":26022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[2497,1152,615,6130,7367],"class_list":["post-27689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-east-conference","tag-cincinnati-bearcats","tag-pittsburgh-panthers","tag-sean-kilpatrick","tag-tray-woodall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27689","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=27689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27690,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27689\/revisions\/27690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}