{"id":28169,"date":"2013-03-16T12:14:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T17:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28169"},"modified":"2013-03-16T12:14:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T17:14:05","slug":"ncaa-basketball-predictions-michigan-state-spartans-vs-ohio-state-buckeyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-predictions-michigan-state-spartans-vs-ohio-state-buckeyes-28169\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Predictions: Michigan State Spartans vs. Ohio State Buckeyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 8 Michigan State Spartans vs. No. 10 Ohio State Buckeyes
\nSaturday, 3\/16\/13, 4:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Ohio State -1
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Ohio State -2
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 124
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 124
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Ohio State Buckeyes are 10-3 ATS in their last 13 games when played on zero or one days rest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Michigan State has won three games in a row, including a 59-56 victory over the Iowa Hawkeyes as six-point neutral-site favorites Friday night, while going UNDER the posted total for the fourth time in five contests.\u00a0 \u201cI can say 98 percent of this year, we\u2019ve shown up every game,\u201d commented Spartans coach Tom Izzo.\u00a0 The team will now get set for a rematch from last year\u2019s championship game, which is important to consider when making your NCAA basketball predictions Saturday.\u00a0 Michigan State is 11-3 ATS in its last 14 tries as a neutral court underdog of three points or less.<\/p>\n

The Spartans are 25-8 in March since 2009, while they\u2019ve gone 19-12 all-time in the Big Ten Tournament, including a 3-6 mark in the semifinals.\u00a0 Michigan State is 5-5 against teams that were ranked in the AP Top 25 poll at the time of the contests, while putting together an 8-4 mark in games decided by five points or less.\u00a0 During the Izzo era, the program has out-rebounded 473 of 613 opponents, which has led to a 375-98 mark when accomplishing that task.<\/p>\n

Ohio State has won six consecutive games, including a 71-50 victory over the Nebraska Cornhuskers as 14.5-point favorites Friday night, while going OVER the total for the first time in six contests.\u00a0 \u201cWe are not here to just kind of have fun and be in a new city,\u201d commented Buckeyes point guard Aaron Craft.\u00a0 The Buckeyes are 20-9 all-time in this event since it began in 1998\u2014winning nine of their last 10 games.\u00a0 Ohio State is 10-3 ATS when playing with one or less days rest the last two-plus seasons, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college basketball odds page.<\/p>\n

The Buckeyes are 150-238 all-time against ranked teams, including a 65-118 mark versus top-10 opponents.\u00a0 Ohio State is 6-7 versus Michigan State when both teams enter as a ranked squad.\u00a0 Head coach Thad Matta has done some of his best work in the months of March and April\u2014compiling a 48-12 record in that situation.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Buckeyes due to their 5-1 ATS mark in conference play, while the Spartans are 1-4 ATS in their last five games on a neutral floor.<\/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. 8 Michigan State Spartans vs. No. 10 Ohio State Buckeyes Saturday, 3\/16\/13, 4:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Ohio State -1 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Ohio State -2 Opening Total:\u00a0 124 Current Total:\u00a0 124 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Michigan State has won three games in a row, including a 59-56 victory over the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[7134,3442,6542,500,463,4004,778],"class_list":["post-28169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-aaron-craft","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-big-ten-tournament","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","tag-thad-matta","tag-tom-izzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28169","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=28169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28170,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28169\/revisions\/28170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}