{"id":27935,"date":"2013-02-27T11:46:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T16:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27935"},"modified":"2013-02-27T11:46:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T16:46:36","slug":"college-basketball-picks-michigan-wolverines-vs-penn-state-nittany-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-michigan-wolverines-vs-penn-state-nittany-lions-27935\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Michigan Wolverines vs. Penn State Nittany Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 4 Michigan Wolverines at Penn State Nittany Lions
\nWednesday, 2\/27\/13, 6:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 Big Ten Network
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan -13.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan -13
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 133
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 132.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Michigan Wolverines are led by point guard Trey Burke on the offensive end<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Michigan has won its last two games, including a 71-58 victory over the Illinois Fighting Illini as 9.5-point home favorites Sunday, while going UNDER the posted total of 137.5.\u00a0 The Wolverines were led by point guard Trey Burke offensively, as he finished with a seaosn-high 29 points.\u00a0 \u201cThere\u2019s a bounce in our step right now,\u201d commented Wolverines coach John Beilein.\u00a0 The program will be meeting Wednesday night\u2019s opponent for the second time in a 10-day span, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your college basketball picks against the spread.<\/p>\n

The Wolverines earned a 79-71 victory over the Nittany Lions as 21.5-point home favorites on Feb. 17, while the last five meetings in this series have gone OVER the total.\u00a0 Burke has been a special player the entire 2012-13 NCAA basketball season, as he leads the nation in assists-to-turnover ratio (3.90).\u00a0 Michigan\u2019s current 9.48 turnovers per-game average is the best all-time in school history, with the previous record being 10.03.<\/p>\n

Penn State has lost all 14 of its Big Ten Conference games this year, which includes a 64-59 setback to Illinois as 14.5-point road underdogs last time out, while going UNDER the total for the first time in four contests.\u00a0 \u201cWe just have to continue working hard every day,\u201d commented Nittany Lions forward Sasa Borovnjak.\u00a0 The Nittany Lions will honor their senior players in this affair, as they try to improve upon their 6-11 record against the Wolverines when playing in State College.\u00a0 Penn State is 7-7 ATS versus conference foes this season, which is important to consider when looking over the college basketball betting lines.<\/p>\n

The Nittany Lions have shot better than 43 percent in each of their last three games, which happens to be their longest such string since doing so in four straight from Dec. 5-23.\u00a0 Penn State has lost its last three games by an average of 5.0 points per game and its last six by 7.8.\u00a0 The team has been outscored at the free throw line by 11.8 points per game over its last six contests.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the OVER is 5-0 in the last five 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":"

No. 4 Michigan Wolverines at Penn State Nittany Lions Wednesday, 2\/27\/13, 6:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 Big Ten Network Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan -13.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan -13 Opening Total:\u00a0 133 Current Total:\u00a0 132.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Michigan has won its last two games, including a 71-58 victory over the Illinois Fighting Illini as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3442,3984,468,497,7202],"class_list":["post-27935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-john-beilein","tag-michigan-wolverines","tag-penn-state-nittany-lions","tag-trey-burke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27935","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=27935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27936,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27935\/revisions\/27936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}