{"id":27883,"date":"2013-02-21T11:50:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T16:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27883"},"modified":"2013-02-21T11:50:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T16:50:52","slug":"ncaa-basketball-picks-cincinnati-bearcats-vs-connecticut-huskies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-picks-cincinnati-bearcats-vs-connecticut-huskies-27883\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Picks: Cincinnati Bearcats vs. Connecticut Huskies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cincinnati Bearcats at Connecticut Huskies
\nThursday, 2\/21\/13, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Connecticut -1
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Cincinnati -1
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 126.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 127
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Connecticut Huskies are 4-3 ATS as underdogs this year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cincinnati has dropped three of its last four games, including a 62-55 setback to the Georgetown Hoyas as four-point home favorites last Friday night, while going UNDER the total for the seventh consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Bearcats have won 13 of their last 17 games away from Fifth Third Arena, while going 19-0 when scoring 61 or more points this season.\u00a0 The team has three players averaging in double figures, with junior guard Sean Kilpatrick leading the way, scoring 18.0 points per game.\u00a0 Cincinnati is 3-1 ATS as road favorites of three points or less the last two-plus seasons, which is important to consider when looking over the college basketball betting lines Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The Bearcats earned an exciting 70-67 win over the Huskies last season in Storrs, with Kilpatrick making a three-pointer with 2.7 seconds remaining.\u00a0 He joins up with JaQuon Parker and Cashmere Wright to account for 59.9 percent of the team\u2019s scoring this season.\u00a0 The program ranks 17th in the country in field-goal percentage defense, while limiting foes to 29.9 percent shooting from the 3-point area.<\/p>\n

Connecticut has won five of its last seven games, as it attempts to bounce back from a disappointing 70-61 defeat to the Villanova Wildcats as 4.5-point home favorites last Saturday, while going UNDER the total for a second consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Huskies are led by their guard tandem of Ryan Boatright and Shabazz Napier, with the duo combining to score 31.7 points per game.\u00a0 Connecticut is 4-3 ATS as an underdog this year, with the UNDER going 5-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Huskies are 231-85 in 316 regular-season games at the XL Center, which includes a 6-2 mark during the 2012-13 campaign.\u00a0 During Big East Conference action, Boatright, Napier and freshman Omar Calhoun are combining to average 42.9 points per game, which is fourth-highest in the league behind trios from Syracuse, DePaul and Providence.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Bearcats due to their 20-8 ATS mark on the road, while the home team is 1-5 ATS 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":"

Cincinnati Bearcats at Connecticut Huskies Thursday, 2\/21\/13, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Connecticut -1 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Cincinnati -1 Opening Total:\u00a0 126.5 Current Total:\u00a0 127 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Cincinnati has dropped three of its last four games, including a 62-55 setback to the Georgetown Hoyas as four-point home favorites last Friday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":26027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[2497,1152,2499,5668,6130,6002,6412],"class_list":["post-27883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-east-conference","tag-cincinnati-bearcats","tag-connecticut-huskies","tag-ryan-boatright","tag-sean-kilpatrick","tag-shabazz-napier","tag-xl-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27883","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=27883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27884,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27883\/revisions\/27884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}