{"id":31412,"date":"2013-11-21T20:29:10","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T01:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31412"},"modified":"2013-11-21T20:29:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T01:29:10","slug":"college-basketball-picks-virginia-tech-hokies-vs-michigan-state-spartans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-virginia-tech-hokies-vs-michigan-state-spartans-31412\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Virginia Tech Hokies vs. Michigan State Spartans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virginia Tech Hokies vs. Michigan State Spartans
\nFriday, 11\/22\/13, 9:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -15
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -15
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Michigan State Spartans are taking great care of the basketball this season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Virginia Tech has won three games in a row, including a 105-92 victory over VMI Monday\u2014the most points scored for the program in a regular season games since 1994.\u00a0 The Hokies are 19-14 SU all-time against schools currently in the Big Ten Conference, which is important to consider when making your college basketball picks Friday night.\u00a0 The program has also won four of 11 games when going against the top-ranked team in the land.\u00a0 Virginia Tech is 4-5 SU and 3-5-1 ATS on a neutral floor the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Hokies are led offensively by Jarell Eddie, who is averaging 16.5 points per game, while it expects big things from junior forward C.J. Barksdale, who had 16 points in his debut after serving a three-game suspension for a violation of team rules.<\/p>\n

Michigan State takes its top ranking on the road as it travels to Brooklyn to play in the Barclays Center for the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic, as it has opened up the year with four consecutive victories.\u00a0 The Spartans have three players averaging double figures, with senior forward Adreian Payne leading the way.\u00a0 He is scoring 17.5 points and grabbing 7.8 rebounds per game.\u00a0 Senior point guard Keith Appling is important to handicap in this matchup, as he\u2019s averaging 6.3 assists per game and has connected on 8-of-13 shots from beyond the arc.\u00a0 Michigan State is 8-1 SU and 0-8-1 ATS in its last nine opportunities as a neutral court favorite of 12.5 to 15 points.<\/p>\n

The Spartans lead the Big Ten in assist-to-turnover ratio, which is important to consider when looking over the college basketball odds page.\u00a0 Michigan State has 86 assists on 121 made field goals, which equates to 71.1 percent of its baskets.\u00a0 The team also leads the conference in connecting on 76.9 percent of its free throws.\u00a0 This is the first ever meeting between these two programs.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Spartans due to the Hokies being 2-6-1 ATS in their last nine neutral site 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":"

Virginia Tech Hokies vs. Michigan State Spartans Friday, 11\/22\/13, 9:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -15 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -15 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Virginia Tech has won three games in a row, including a 105-92 victory over VMI Monday\u2014the most points scored for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[7156,3442,7811,7157,7810,500,1926],"class_list":["post-31412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-barclays-center","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-c-j-barksdale","tag-coaches-vs-cancer-classic","tag-jarell-eddie","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-virginia-tech-hokies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31412","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=31412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31413,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31412\/revisions\/31413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}