{"id":27828,"date":"2013-02-17T09:36:47","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T14:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27828"},"modified":"2013-02-17T09:36:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T14:36:47","slug":"college-basketball-betting-odds-and-predictions-arizona-wildcats-vs-utah-utes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-betting-odds-and-predictions-arizona-wildcats-vs-utah-utes-27828\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Betting Odds and Predictions: Arizona Wildcats vs. Utah Utes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arizona Wildcats at Utah Utes
\nSunday, 2\/17\/13, 3:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 Pac-12 Networks
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Arizona -8.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Arizona -9.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Arizona Wildcats have dropped back-to-back games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Arizona has dropped back-to-back games, including a 71-58 setback to the Colorado Buffaloes as 1.5-point road favorites Thursday night, while going UNDER the total for the first time in four contests.\u00a0 The Wildcats defense has fallen off over the last two contests, as their opponents have shot a combined 54.5 percent from the field.\u00a0 \u201cOur defense has been what has gotten us to this point,\u201d commented Wildcats coach Sean Miller.\u00a0 The program has won three straight games in Salt Lake City, which is its longest such winning streak in the series.\u00a0 Arizona is 2-0 SUATS as road favorites of 6.5 to 9 points this season, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your college basketball picks against the spread Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats have averaged 64.7 points over their last three road games, something to consider when looking over the college basketball betting lines.\u00a0 Arizona connected on just 36.2 percent of its field goal attempts in a 60-57 victory over Utah as 19-point home favorites in the first meeting this year, while going UNDER the posted total of 126.\u00a0 Through 12 Pac-12 Conference games, the team is scoring 30.2 points per game in the paint and outscoring foes by an average of 4.33 in that category.<\/p>\n

Utah matched its win total in Pac-12 play from last season by erasing an eight-point deficit in the second half of a 60-55 win over Arizona State as two-point home underdogs Wednesday night.\u00a0 \u201cWe are trying to get it restored and games like this give us some momentum,\u201d commented Utes coach Larry Krystkowiak in regards to rebuilding a once proud program.\u00a0 The Utes lead the conference and rank 24th nationally in limiting foes to 38.6 percent shooting from the field.\u00a0 Utah is 17-6 ATS when revenging a road loss versus an opponent the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Utes have three players averaging in double figures offensively, with freshman forward Jordan Loveridge leading the way in scoring 12.0 points per game.\u00a0 In conference home games over the last 17 years, Utah has compiled a 112-33 record, which is important to consider when making your NCAA basketball picks to close out the weekend.\u00a0 Jarred DuBois, a senior transfer from Loyola Marymount, has scored 20 or more in four games this season.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Wildcats due to the road team covering the spread in the last six 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":"

Arizona Wildcats at Utah Utes Sunday, 2\/17\/13, 3:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 Pac-12 Networks Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Arizona -8.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Arizona -9.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Arizona has dropped back-to-back games, including a 71-58 setback to the Colorado Buffaloes as 1.5-point road favorites Thursday night, while going UNDER […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[578,7386,7385,5263,4102,405],"class_list":["post-27828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-arizona-wildcats","tag-jarred-dubois","tag-jordan-loveridge","tag-pac-12-conference","tag-sean-miller","tag-utah-utes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27828","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=27828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27829,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27828\/revisions\/27829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}