{"id":28317,"date":"2013-03-23T14:01:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T19:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28317"},"modified":"2013-03-23T14:01:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T19:01:45","slug":"west-region-ncaa-tournament-2013-betting-9-wichita-state-shockers-vs-1-gonzaga-bulldogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/west-region-ncaa-tournament-2013-betting-9-wichita-state-shockers-vs-1-gonzaga-bulldogs-28317\/","title":{"rendered":"West Region NCAA Tournament 2013 Betting:  (9) Wichita State Shockers vs. (1) Gonzaga Bulldogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/kevin-pangos-gonzaga-2012.jpg\" alt=\"kevin-pangos-gonzaga-2012\" width=\"495\" height=\"278\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/kevin-pangos-gonzaga-2012.jpg 495w, https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/kevin-pangos-gonzaga-2012-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><strong>Wichita State vs. Gonzaga<br \/>\n8:40 PM EST<br \/>\nSpread:  GON -6.5<br \/>\nTotal:  128.5<br \/>\nM\/L:  GON -290, WIC +240<\/p>\n<p>Betting Odds from Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Gonzaga Bulldogs narrowly avoided a disastrous loss to No. 16 seeded Southern.  The Zags won 64-58, behind 21 points from Kelly Olynyk.  Olynyk shot 8-of-15 from the floor and 5-of-7 from the stripe, and Kevin Pangos also had a big game, scoring 16 and hitting key threes.<\/p>\n<p>Olynyk averaged 17.6 points and 7.3 rebounds per game in the 2011-12 season, and Kevin Pangos averaged 11.6 per game while shooting 42.3 percent from three-point range.  Elias Harris was also a key fixture, averaging 14.6 points and a team-leading 7.5 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-foot Olynyk had just five double-doubles on the season, but Gonzaga was a perfect 5-0 in those games.  In the two Gonzaga losses, Olynyk averaged just 15 points and 7 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p>Wichita State has won three of their last four games, including their last a 73-55 victory over Pittsburgh in opening round play.  In the 18 point victory, Malcolm Armstead scored 22 points on 6-of-14 shooting and 9-of-9 free throws, and Cleanthony Early scored 21 off the bench in 28 minutes of play.  <\/p>\n<p>Early led the Shockers in scoring off the bench, with 13.8 points per game.  The Shockers are 12-2 when Early scores at least 15 points.  Armstead posted 10.7 points per game, and Carl Hall averaged 12.7 points and 7.1 rebounds per game.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>BETTING TRENDS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wichita State:<\/strong>  OVER is 7-3 in last 10 non-conference games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gonzaga:<\/strong>  UNDER 23-6-2 in last 31 Saturday games.  2-6 ATS in their last 8 Saturday games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wichita State vs. Gonzaga 8:40 PM EST Spread: GON -6.5 Total: 128.5 M\/L: GON -290, WIC +240 Betting Odds from Bookmaker The Gonzaga Bulldogs narrowly avoided a disastrous loss to No. 16 seeded Southern. The Zags won 64-58, behind 21 points from Kelly Olynyk. Olynyk shot 8-of-15 from the floor and 5-of-7 from the stripe, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":25943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[6030,1202,4660,4659,6279],"class_list":["post-28317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-college-basketball-odds","tag-gonzaga-bulldogs","tag-march-madness-picks","tag-ncaa-tournament-picks","tag-wichita-state-shockers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28317","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=28317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28318,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28317\/revisions\/28318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}