{"id":31382,"date":"2013-11-20T13:44:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T18:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31382"},"modified":"2013-11-20T13:44:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T18:44:40","slug":"college-basketball-picks-iowa-state-cyclones-vs-byu-cougars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-iowa-state-cyclones-vs-byu-cougars-31382\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Iowa State Cyclones vs. BYU Cougars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iowa State Cyclones vs. BYU Cougars
\nWednesday, 11\/20\/13, 9:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 BYU -5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 BYU -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 177
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 177
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Iowa State Cyclones are 5-0 SU all-time against the BYU Cougars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Iowa State has won its first three games of the 2013-14 season, including a 77-70 victory over the Michigan Wolverines as one-point home favorites Sunday, while pushing up against the betting total of 147.\u00a0 The Cyclones have won all five meetings against the Cougars, which is important to consider when making your college basketball betting picks Wednesday night.\u00a0 The team has had a different leading scorer in each contest this season, with five players reaching in double figures overall.\u00a0 Iowa State is 7-19 SU and 13-12 ATS as an underdog the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Cyclones are led on the offensive end by sophomore guard Naz Long, who is averaging 15.7 points per game\u2014hitting 13-of-20 three-pointers to start the season.\u00a0 Iowa State has one of the best bench players in the nation in senior forward Melvin Ejim, who is averaging 22.0 points and 9.0 rebounds per game.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that the team is 11-1 SU when scoring 90 or more points under head coach Fred Hoiberg.<\/p>\n

BYU also comes in with an unblemished record, as it picked up its fourth win by tallying an 84-60 victory over Colorado Mesa last Saturday.\u00a0 The Cougars are averaging 96.2 points per game, which is important to consider when looking over the college basketball odds page.\u00a0 Junior guard Tyler Haws is one of the best offensive players in the country, entering this affair averaging 29.5 points and 10.5 rebounds per game.\u00a0 He received preseason All-America honors, but has sat out the last two games due to a lower abdominal strain.\u00a0 BYU is 0-4 SUATS versus Big 12 Conference foes the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Cougars have been one of the best teams in the nation under nine-year head coach Dave Rose, as they\u2019ve won 76.3 percent of his games on the sideline.\u00a0 BYU has tallied eight-straight 20-win seasons and reached the postseason in each of those campaigns.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Cyclones due to the Cougars being 2-5-1 ATS in their last eight home games.<\/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":"

Iowa State Cyclones vs. BYU Cougars Wednesday, 11\/20\/13, 9:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 BYU -5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 BYU -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 177 Current Total:\u00a0 177 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Iowa State has won its first three games of the 2013-14 season, including a 77-70 victory over the Michigan Wolverines as one-point home favorites […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[434,7230,2666,7799,7760],"class_list":["post-31382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-byu-cougars","tag-fred-hoiberg","tag-iowa-state-cyclones","tag-melvin-ejim","tag-tyler-haws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31382","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=31382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31383,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31382\/revisions\/31383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}