{"id":27909,"date":"2013-02-25T11:39:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T16:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27909"},"modified":"2013-02-25T11:39:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T16:39:07","slug":"college-basketball-picks-villanova-wildcats-vs-seton-hall-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-villanova-wildcats-vs-seton-hall-pirates-27909\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Villanova Wildcats vs. Seton Hall Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Villanova Wildcats at Seton Hall Pirates
\nMonday, 2\/25\/13, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Villanova -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Villanova -4
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 130
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 130
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Villanova Wildcats have won their last 10 games against the Seton Hall Pirates<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Villanova has won five of its last six games, including a 60-56 victory over the Marquette Golden Eagles as two-point home favorites last Saturday, while going UNDER the total for the fourth time in five contests.\u00a0 The Wildcats now have three wins over top-25 teams in the country, which is important to consider when making your college basketball picks against the spread Monday night.\u00a0 The 60 points scored by the squad last time out was its fewest in tallying a victory this season.\u00a0 Villanova is 0-3 ATS as road favorites of 3.5 to 6 points the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 2-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats will definitely focus on trying to knock down shots from the 3-point area, as they\u2019ve gone 14-0 this season when sinking six or more triples in a game, while going 4-10 when failing to do so.\u00a0 Villanova has three projected starters averaging in double figures, with forward JayVaughn Pinkston leading the way, scoring 12.6 points per game.\u00a0 The program has won the last 10 meetings in this series, including an eight-point decision a season ago.<\/p>\n

Seton Hall will try to snap a nine-game losing streak, which includes a 79-61 setback to the Louisville Cardinals as 18.5-point road underdogs last Saturday, while going OVER the posted total of 129.\u00a0 The Pirates have three probable starters averaging in double figures, with junior guard Fuquan Edwin leading the way, scoring 16.9 points and grabbing 5.7 rebounds per game.\u00a0 The team is scoring 65.9 points per game, while allowing 65.6.\u00a0 Seton Hall is 0-2 ATS as home underdogs of 3.5 to 6 points during the 2012-13 NCAA basketball season.<\/p>\n

The Pirates have compiled a 9-6 record at home this season, as they try to pick up their first win in eight tries in the month of February.\u00a0 Seton Hall is 5-15 SU and 11-9 ATS during this particular calendar month the last two-plus seasons, which is important to consider when looking over the college basketball betting lines.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Wildcats due to their 5-2 ATS mark in their last seven trips to Seton Hall.<\/p>\n

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Villanova Wildcats at Seton Hall Pirates Monday, 2\/25\/13, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Villanova -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Villanova -4 Opening Total:\u00a0 130 Current Total:\u00a0 130 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Villanova has won five of its last six games, including a 60-56 victory over the Marquette Golden Eagles as two-point home favorites […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[7300,7389,4300,752],"class_list":["post-27909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-fuquan-edwin","tag-jayvaughn-pinkston","tag-seton-hall-pirates","tag-villanova-wildcats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27909","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=27909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27910,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27909\/revisions\/27910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}