{"id":31602,"date":"2013-12-03T18:51:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T23:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31602"},"modified":"2013-12-03T18:51:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T23:51:17","slug":"college-basketball-picks-virginia-cavaliers-vs-wisconsin-badgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-virginia-cavaliers-vs-wisconsin-badgers-31602\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Virginia Cavaliers vs. Wisconsin Badgers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wisconsin Badgers vs. Virginia Cavaliers
\nWednesday, 12\/4\/13, 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Virginia -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Virginia -3.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Wisconsin Badgers are 12-2 ATS in their last 14 games versus ACC opponents<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wisconsin is off to an 8-0 start for the first time since 1993-94, as it comes off a 70-63 victory over the West Virginia Mountaineers as 6.5-point neutral-site favorites last Wednesday, while going UNDER the betting total for a third consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Badgers are averaging 76.8 points per game, which is up from 65.0 a year ago and can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college basketball lines page.\u00a0 The program is the only one in the Big Ten Conference to have five players averaging in double figures.\u00a0 Wisconsin is 12-2 ATS in its last 14 games versus ACC opponents.<\/p>\n

The Badgers will be seeking revenge from a 60-54 setback to the Cavaliers as 10-point home favorites a season ago, as they were outrebounded by a 36-18 margin in that affair.\u00a0 Wisconsin has played in each of the previous 14 Big Ten\/ACC Challenges\u2014posting a 6-8 record in the event.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is 15th in the nation and tops the Big Ten in shooting 43.6 percent from beyond the arc, which is far better than its 33 percent mark a season ago.<\/p>\n

Virginia has compiled a 50-19 record against non-conference opponents under the direction of head coach Tony Bennett, while the program has gone 8-5 since the start of this special event.\u00a0 The Cavaliers are receiving votes in the latest AP and USA Today Coaches polls, while they\u2019ve gone 7-14 against ranked opponents under their current coaching staff.\u00a0 The team has three players averaging double figures, with senior guard Joe Harris leading the way in scoring 12.4 points a contest.\u00a0 Virginia is 3-9 ATS in its last 12 games overall.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers have made eight or more 3-pointers in each of their last four games\u2014shooting 51.4 percent from downtown in that span.\u00a0 Harris ranks 24th on Virginia\u2019s all-time scoring list with 1,354 points, while Akil Mitchell has grabbed 561 career rebounds.\u00a0 As of Monday, the school ranks in the top nine nationally in seven defensive categories, while it has held all eight of its opponents below 50 percent shooting from the floor.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Badgers due to the Cavaliers being 2-7 ATS in their last nine games versus a team with a winning record.<\/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":"

Wisconsin Badgers vs. Virginia Cavaliers Wednesday, 12\/4\/13, 7:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Virginia -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Virginia -3.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Wisconsin is off to an 8-0 start for the first time since 1993-94, as it comes off a 70-63 victory over the West Virginia Mountaineers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":26007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[387,7838,3442,7206,761,2977,437],"class_list":["post-31602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-akil-mitchell","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-joe-harris","tag-tony-bennett","tag-virginia-cavaliers","tag-wisconsin-badgers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31602","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=31602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31603,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31602\/revisions\/31603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}