{"id":27826,"date":"2013-02-17T09:09:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T14:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27826"},"modified":"2013-02-17T09:09:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T14:09:13","slug":"college-basketball-picks-penn-state-nittany-lions-vs-michigan-wolverines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-penn-state-nittany-lions-vs-michigan-wolverines-27826\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Penn State Nittany Lions vs. Michigan Wolverines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Penn State Nittany Lions at No. 4 Michigan Wolverines
\nSunday, 2\/17\/13, 12:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 Big Ten Network
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan -23.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan -23
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 132.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 132
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Michigan Wolverines have won their last four meetings against the Penn State Nittany Lions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Penn State has lost 12 games in a row, including a 74-72 setback to the Iowa Hawkeyes as 8.5-point home underdogs, while going OVER the total for the second consecutive contest.\u00a0 \u201cWe have our ups and downs, and right now we hit a low,\u201d commented Nittany Lions junior guard Jermaine Marshall.\u00a0 He has led the team in averaging 4.25 assists over the last four games.\u00a0 Offensively, the team shot a season-best 47.1 percent from the 3-point area, but it still wasn\u2019t enough.\u00a0 Penn State is 3-0 ATS as road underdogs of 12.5 or more points this season, with the UNDER going 2-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Nittany Lions have a 661-595 advantage in field goal attempts versus Big Ten Conference opponents, but they trail such foes by a 348-209 margin from the charity stripe.\u00a0 Marshall ranks seventh in the Big Ten scoring 14.7 points per game, while leading the team in scoring nine times.<\/p>\n

Michigan has dropped three of its last four games, including a 75-52 blowout loss to the Michigan State Spartans as 1.5-point road favorites last time out, while going UNDER the total for the first time in four contests.\u00a0 \u201cYou\u2019re going to have bumps in the road and it\u2019s part of getting better,\u201d commented Wolverines coach John Beilein.\u00a0 \u201cThat was a big bump.\u201d\u00a0 The Wolverines own a 27-11 advantage in this series, including wins in the last four meetings.\u00a0 Michigan is 6-4-1 ATS as home favorites of 12.5 or or more points this season, with the UNDER going 7-4 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Wolverines are 29-1 at the Crisler Center over the last two seasons, including a perfect 14-0 mark during the 2012-13 NCAA basketball season.\u00a0 Michigan is led by its backcourt combination of Trey Burke and Tim Hardaway Jr., who have combined to score 33.7 points per game.\u00a0 The tea\u2019s four losses have come via road games with three coming at the hands of nationally ranked programs.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Wolverines due to the home team being 10-4-1 ATS in the last 15 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":"

Penn State Nittany Lions at No. 4 Michigan Wolverines Sunday, 2\/17\/13, 12:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 Big Ten Network Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan -23.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan -23 Opening Total:\u00a0 132.5 Current Total:\u00a0 132 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Penn State has lost 12 games in a row, including a 74-72 setback to the Iowa Hawkeyes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":26016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3442,6358,468,497,5803,7202],"class_list":["post-27826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-crisler-center","tag-michigan-wolverines","tag-penn-state-nittany-lions","tag-tim-hardaway-jr","tag-trey-burke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27826","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=27826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27827,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27826\/revisions\/27827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}