{"id":28161,"date":"2013-03-16T05:56:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T10:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28161"},"modified":"2013-03-16T05:56:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T10:56:45","slug":"sec-semifinal-round-betting-preview-13-florida-gators-vs-alabama-crimson-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/sec-semifinal-round-betting-preview-13-florida-gators-vs-alabama-crimson-tide-28161\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC Semifinal Round Betting Preview:  (13) Florida Gators vs. Alabama Crimson Tide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/kenny-boynton-florida-12.jpg\" alt=\"kenny-boynton-florida-12\" width=\"495\" height=\"278\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/kenny-boynton-florida-12.jpg 495w, https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/kenny-boynton-florida-12-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><strong>SEC Semifinal Matchup<br \/>\n(13) Florida vs. Alabama<br \/>\nTime:  1 PM EST<br \/>\nTV:  ABC<br \/>\nSpread:  FLA -13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Betting Odds courtesy of Bookmaker<\/p>\n<p>The 13th ranked Florida Gators have a 25-6 record with a 14-4 record in the SEC, the most recent victory of which came in a 80-58 trouncing of the LSU Tigers to advance to semifinal play.  The Gators outscored LSU 43-28 in the first half, and Erik Murphy&#8217;s 27 points led four Gators in double figures.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy leads the Gators in scoring with 12.9 points per game, but he&#8217;s joined by three other Gators who average at least 10 points per game.  <\/p>\n<p>Kenny Boynton is the leader of this team, and he plays a team high 32.4 minutes a night, averaging 12.2 points per game, 3.2 rebounds and 3.1 assists.  <\/p>\n<p>Boynton is shooting over 5 percent worse from the floor this season and hasn&#8217;t been getting to the line as much, but he&#8217;s still a key player for a Florida team that averaged 72 points per game this season.  <\/p>\n<p>The Alabama Crimson Tide are 21-11 with a 12-6 record in SEC.  They defeated Tennessee 58-48 to reach the semifinals, and the Crimson Tide closed the game on a 17-4 run.  Trevor Releford scored 14 on 4-of-9 shooting, and Levi Randolph contributed 15 points and five rebounds, while shooting 5-of-9 from the field.<\/p>\n<p>Releford leads the Crimson Tide in scoring, averaging 15.5 points per game.  The 6-foot junior guard is having his finest collegiate season, shooting a career high 48.9 percent from the floor and 44.7 percent from three.  He&#8217;s also a game changer on the defensive end, and is good at playing passing lanes and coming up with steals.  His two steals per game lead the Tide and help ignite a decent transition offense for Alabama.  Florida will have to get back to prevent Releford from getting his teammates going, or just flat out catching fire.<\/p>\n<p>If the Gators can contain and control Releford, they&#8217;ll easily win this contest, as predicted by college basketball oddsmakers who set the line 13 points in favor of Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEC Semifinal Matchup (13) Florida vs. Alabama Time: 1 PM EST TV: ABC Spread: FLA -13 Betting Odds courtesy of Bookmaker The 13th ranked Florida Gators have a 25-6 record with a 14-4 record in the SEC, the most recent victory of which came in a 80-58 trouncing of the LSU Tigers to advance to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":25959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[462,6030,499,5974,7402],"class_list":["post-28161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-college-basketball-odds","tag-florida-gators","tag-ncaa-basketball-betting","tag-sec-quarterfinal-betting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28161","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\/40250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28162,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28161\/revisions\/28162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}