{"id":28010,"date":"2013-03-05T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28010"},"modified":"2013-03-05T22:00:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T03:00:10","slug":"college-basketball-picks-saint-louis-billikens-vs-xavier-musketeers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-saint-louis-billikens-vs-xavier-musketeers-28010\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Saint Louis Billikens vs. Xavier Musketeers"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 16 Saint Louis Billikens at Xavier Musketeers
\nWednesday, 3\/6\/13, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Saint Louis -4
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Saint Louis -4
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Xavier Musketeers are 4-0 ATS in their last four games following a loss<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Saint Louis has won 11 games in a row, including a 66-58 victory over the George Washington Colonials as five-point road favorites last Saturday.\u00a0 The Billikens lead the Atlantic 10 Conference and are 19th nationally in allowing just 57.9 points per game.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is incredible balanced, with six players averaging 7.2 points or more per game.\u00a0 Saint Louis is 6-0 ATS in its last six road games, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your college basketball picks against the spread Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

The Billikens would ensure at least a share of the conference regular season title with a victory in this spot, which hasn\u2019t happened since the 1970-71 season.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve got a really good opponent in Xavier,\u201d commented Billikens interim coach Jim Crews this week.\u00a0 Saint Louis has won just two times in the last 10 meetings in this series, which includes a 71-64 setback as 5.5-point favorites on March 10 of last season, while going OVER the posted total of 128.<\/p>\n

Xavier has alternated wins and losses over its last six games, as it looks to bounce back from a 77-72 setback to the Massachusetts Minutemen as four-point home favorites last Saturday, while going OVER the posted total of 139.5.\u00a0 The Musketeers have been in a year of transition, considering they lost their top five scorers from a year ago.\u00a0 Freshman Semaj Christon will need to have a big game on the offensive end if the program plans on pulling off an upset in this spot, as he leads all first-year players within the conference in averaging 15.0 points.\u00a0 Xavier is 4-0 ATS following a SU loss, which is important to consider when looking over the college basketball betting lines.<\/p>\n

The Musketeers are first in field goal percentage defense (.408) in the Atlantic 10, while they trail only the Billikens in surrendering 62.3 points per game.\u00a0 Xavier has won its last six \u201cSenior Day\u201d or \u201cSenior Night\u201d and 15 of the last 16.\u00a0 With an 8-6 mark in A-10 play, the team has clinched at least a non-losing conference record for the 31st straight season.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Musketeers due to their 6-2 ATS record in their last eight home games.<\/p>\n

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No. 16 Saint Louis Billikens at Xavier Musketeers Wednesday, 3\/6\/13, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 N\/A Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Saint Louis -4 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Saint Louis -4 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Saint Louis has won 11 games in a row, including a 66-58 victory over the George Washington Colonials […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[7182,7394,4250,7246,1369],"class_list":["post-28010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-atlantic-10-conference","tag-jim-crews","tag-saint-louis-billikens","tag-semaj-christon","tag-xavier-musketeers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28010","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=28010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28014,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28010\/revisions\/28014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}