{"id":28019,"date":"2013-03-06T22:30:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T03:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28019"},"modified":"2013-03-06T22:31:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T03:31:03","slug":"college-basketball-picks-butler-bulldogs-vs-massachusetts-minutemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-butler-bulldogs-vs-massachusetts-minutemen-28019\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Butler Bulldogs vs. Massachusetts Minutemen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Butler Bulldogs at Massachusetts Minutemen
\nThursday, 3\/7\/13, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NBC Sports Network
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Massachusetts -1
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Massachusetts -1
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 144
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 143
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Butler Bulldogs are 0-3-1 ATS in their last four road games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Butler has dropped back-to-back games, including a 84-52 blowout loss to the VCU Rams as eight-point road underdogs last Saturday, while going UNDER the total for the third time in four contests.\u00a0 The Bulldogs still have an opportunity to claim one of the first round byes in the upcoming Atlantic 10 Conference tournament, but will likely need a win here and in their regular season finale on March 9.\u00a0 Offensively, the team has three probable starters averaging in double figures, with senior guard Rotnei Clarke leading the way in scoring 16.5 points per game.\u00a0 Butler is 0-3-1 ATS in its last four road games, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your college basketball picks against the spread.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs turned the ball over a season-high 23 times against the Rams, which led to a 34-2 disparity in fast-break points.\u00a0 Butler is ranked first in the conference and 10th nationally in out-rebounding opponents by an average margin of plus-7.6, as they\u2019ve won the battle on the glass in 12 of their last 13 games.<\/p>\n

Massachusetts has won and covered the spread in its last two games, including a surprising 77-72 victory over the Xavier Musketeers as four-point road underdogs last Saturday, while going OVER the total for the fifth time in six contests.\u00a0 The Minutemen are averaging 73.9 points per game on 43.4 percent shooting this season, which is important to consider when looking over the betting totals on the college basketball odds page.\u00a0 Massachusetts is 4-1 ATS in its last five home games.<\/p>\n

The Minutemen rank 98th in the nation in having 202 steals thus far during the 2012-13 campaign, but are still a long way off from the school record of 326 that they tallied last year.\u00a0 Massachusetts will be celebrating the the careers of seniors Freddie Riley and Terrell Vinson before the game, as each of them have scored at least 945 points during their time on campus.\u00a0 Vinson currently ranks 24th in school history in points scored.\u00a0 In the past seven games, the team is averaging just under 80 points per game on 47 percent shooting, which includes hitting 41 percent of its tried from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the OVER is 8-2 in the Minutemen\u2019s last 10 home games versus a team with a winning road record.<\/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":"

Butler Bulldogs at Massachusetts Minutemen Thursday, 3\/7\/13, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NBC Sports Network Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Massachusetts -1 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Massachusetts -1 Opening Total:\u00a0 144 Current Total:\u00a0 143 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Butler has dropped back-to-back games, including a 84-52 blowout loss to the VCU Rams as eight-point road underdogs last Saturday, while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":3961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[7182,695,5845,7351,7395],"class_list":["post-28019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-atlantic-10-conference","tag-butler-bulldogs","tag-massachusetts-minutemen","tag-rotnei-clarke","tag-terrell-vinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28019","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=28019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28023,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28019\/revisions\/28023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}