{"id":27774,"date":"2013-02-14T12:46:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T17:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27774"},"modified":"2013-02-14T12:46:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T17:46:36","slug":"ncaa-basketball-picks-gonzaga-bulldogs-vs-saint-marys-gaels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-picks-gonzaga-bulldogs-vs-saint-marys-gaels-27774\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Picks: Gonzaga Bulldogs vs. Saint Mary’s Gaels"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 5 Gonzaga Bulldogs at Saint Mary\u2019s Gaels
\nThursday, 2\/15\/13, 11:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Gonzaga PK
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Gonzaga -1
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 144
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 143
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Gonzaga Bulldogs are one of the top shooting teams in the country<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gonzaga remained undefeated in West Coast Conference play with a 74-55 win over Loyola Marymount as 24.5-point home favorites last Saturday, while going UNDER the total for the seventh time in eight contests.\u00a0 The Bulldogs will now prepare to face an opponent that would love to gain revenge from an 83-78 defeat in the first meeting this year on Jan. 10.\u00a0 \u201cIt will be a very intense game that will be very physical,\u201d commented Bulldogs coach Mark Few.\u00a0 Gonzaga is 21-21 ATS versus conference opponents the last two-plus years, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NCAA basketball picks Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs are 55-27 all-time against the Gaels, but they\u2019ve split the last eight meetings in the series.\u00a0 Gonzaga deserves to be respected when looking over the college basketball odds page, considering both of its losses have come against ranked opponents during the 2012-13 season.\u00a0 It\u2019s also important to note that 16 of its 23 wins this season have come by a double-digit margin, as it manages to shoot 50.7 percent from the field.<\/p>\n

Saint Mary\u2019s has won a season-best nine-straight games, which happens to be tied for the fifth-longest win streak in school history.\u00a0 The Gaels are second in the conference in allowing just 64.0 points per game, which has led to a point differential of plus-13.8.\u00a0 The team is second behind tonight\u2019s opponent in terms of field goal percentage, while pacing all programs in knocking down 73.1 percent of its attempts from the charity stripe.\u00a0 Saint Mary\u2019s is 2-0 ATS as an underdog this season, which makes them playable when making your college basketball picks against the spread.<\/p>\n

The Gaels are led on the offensive end by senior All-America candidate Matthew Dellavedova, who is one of four players that averages double figures, scoring 15.6 points and dishing out 6.6 assists per game.\u00a0 Over the last six seasons, Saint Mary\u2019s has lost just once at home to a WCC opponent other than Gonzaga, while going 37-4 overall in that particular situation.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the OVER is 7-1 in the last eight meetings in Moraga.<\/p>\n

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No. 5 Gonzaga Bulldogs at Saint Mary\u2019s Gaels Thursday, 2\/15\/13, 11:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Gonzaga PK Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Gonzaga -1 Opening Total:\u00a0 144 Current Total:\u00a0 143 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Gonzaga remained undefeated in West Coast Conference play with a 74-55 win over Loyola Marymount as 24.5-point home favorites last […]<\/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":[1202,768,6388,1376,4229,3888],"class_list":["post-27774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-gonzaga-bulldogs","tag-mark-few","tag-matthew-dellavedova","tag-saint-marys-gaels","tag-wcc","tag-west-coast-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27774","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=27774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27775,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27774\/revisions\/27775"}],"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=27774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}