{"id":28134,"date":"2013-03-15T10:38:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T15:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28134"},"modified":"2013-03-15T10:38:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T15:38:44","slug":"college-basketball-picks-michigan-wolverines-vs-wisconsin-badgers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-michigan-wolverines-vs-wisconsin-badgers-2-28134\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Michigan Wolverines vs. Wisconsin Badgers"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 6 Michigan Wolverines vs. No. 22 Wisconsin Badgers
\nFriday, 3\/15\/13, 2:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan 2.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 123.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 124
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Michigan Wolverines are 4-0 SUATS on a neutral floor this year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Michigan captured an 83-66 victory over the Penn State Nittany Lions as 14-point favorites Thursday night, while going OVER the posted total of 133.\u00a0 \u201cThis could be a year where you have eight or nine Big Ten Conference teams make the NCAA tournament,\u201d commented Wolverines coach John Beilein.\u00a0 The Wolverines had five players score in double figures last time out, with guard Trey Burke leading the way, as he finished with a game-high 21.\u00a0 Michigan is 4-0 SUATS in neutral court games this season, with the OVER going 3-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Wolverines are 13-14 all-time in the Big Ten Tournament, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your college basketball picks against the spread Friday, which includes a 4-7 mark in quarterfinal action.\u00a0 Burke has put together a special season, as he\u2019s averaging career bests for points, assists and field goal percentage.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is averaging 75.7 points per game, which currently ranks as the highest per-game average during the Beilein era.<\/p>\n

Wisconsin snapped a two-game losing streak by earning a 63-60 win over Penn State as 9.5-point road favorites Sunday, while going OVER the total for the third time in four contests.\u00a0 The Badgers earned five wins over AP top-15 teams, which is important to consider when looking over the college basketball betting lines.\u00a0 Bo Ryan\u2019s .706 win percentage in Big Ten games is the second-best mark of any coach in conference history.\u00a0 Wisconsin is 9-7 ATS on a neutral court the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 8-7 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Badgers have won just two of seven games as the No. 4 seed in this event, while they\u2019ve gone 15-13 overall.\u00a0 Wisconsin has just five players on its active roster that have played a Big Ten Tournament game\u2014combining for 15 total games of experience and six starts.\u00a0 The team has won 11 of the last 12 meetings with Michigan, as it hasn\u2019t allowed more than 62 points in that span.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Wolverines due to their 4-0 ATS mark in neutral site games, while the Badgers are 6-13-1 ATS versus teams with a winning 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":"

No. 6 Michigan Wolverines vs. No. 22 Wisconsin Badgers Friday, 3\/15\/13, 2:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan 2.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 123.5 Current Total:\u00a0 124 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Michigan captured an 83-66 victory over the Penn State Nittany Lions as 14-point favorites Thursday night, while going OVER […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3442,5886,468,7202,437],"class_list":["post-28134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-bo-ryan","tag-michigan-wolverines","tag-trey-burke","tag-wisconsin-badgers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28134","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=28134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28135,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28134\/revisions\/28135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}