{"id":27874,"date":"2013-02-20T12:33:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T17:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27874"},"modified":"2013-02-20T12:33:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T17:33:54","slug":"college-basketball-picks-minnesota-golden-gophers-vs-ohio-state-buckeyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-minnesota-golden-gophers-vs-ohio-state-buckeyes-27874\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Minnesota Golden Gophers vs. Ohio State Buckeyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minnesota Golden Gophers at No. 18 Ohio State Buckeyes
\nWednesday, 2\/20\/13, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 Big Ten Network
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Ohio State -5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Ohio State -5.5
\nOpening Total\u00a0 128.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 125.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Ohio State Buckeyes are 10-9 ATS as favorites this season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Minnesota has dropped three of its last four games, including a 72-51 setback to the Iowa Hawkeyes as 1.5-point road underdogs Sunday, while going UNDER the total for the fifth consecutive contest.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve got to look onto the next mission,\u201d commented Golden Gophers point guard Andre Hollins.\u00a0 The Golden Gophers will enter this Big Ten Conference matchup with a 4-16 record in February the last three years, which is hard to ignore when making your college basketball picks against the spread Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

The Golden Gophers are certainly balanced on the offensive end, with Hollins leading the way, averaging 13.7 points per game.\u00a0 Minnesota may be without the services of forward Rodney Williams, who is listed as questionable with a shoulder injury, which could be a major blow due to ranking second on the team in points, rebounds and blocks.\u00a0 The program leads the conference in averaging 6.0 blocked shots per game, while enjoying a plus-6.6 rebounding margin in Big Ten play.<\/p>\n

Ohio State has dropped three of its last four games as well, including a humiliating 71-49 defeat to the Wisconsin Badgers as four-point road underdogs Sunday, while going OVER the total in a fourth consecutive contest.\u00a0 \u201cWe can\u2019t play like this in February,\u201d stated Buckeyes guard Aaron Craft.\u00a0 \u201cThis is beginning-of-the-year mistakes being made.\u201d\u00a0 The Buckeyes can certainly bounce back in this spot, considering they\u2019ve gone 25-3 in this series when entering as a ranked team.\u00a0 Ohio State is 10-9 ATS as a favorite this season, with the UNDER going 10-8 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Buckeyes are led on the offensive end by junior forward Deshaun Thomas, who is leading the conference in averaging 20.1 points per game, while also pacing the squad in grabbing 6.2 rebounds.\u00a0 Ohio State is 17-0 versus unranked foes this season, while managing just a single win in eight tries versus top-25 opponents.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Buckeyes due to the favorite being 11-1 ATS in the last 12 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":"

Minnesota Golden Gophers at No. 18 Ohio State Buckeyes Wednesday, 2\/20\/13, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 Big Ten Network Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Ohio State -5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Ohio State -5.5 Opening Total\u00a0 128.5 Current Total:\u00a0 125.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Minnesota has dropped three of its last four games, including a 72-51 setback to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[7134,7301,3442,3884,464,463],"class_list":["post-27874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-aaron-craft","tag-andre-hollins","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-deshaun-thomas","tag-minnesota-golden-gophers","tag-ohio-state-buckeyes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27874","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=27874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27875,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27874\/revisions\/27875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}