{"id":31726,"date":"2013-12-10T19:16:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T00:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31726"},"modified":"2013-12-10T19:16:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T00:16:32","slug":"ncaa-basketball-picks-new-mexico-state-aggies-vs-arizona-wildcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-picks-new-mexico-state-aggies-vs-arizona-wildcats-31726\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Picks: New Mexico State Aggies vs. Arizona Wildcats"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Mexico State Aggies vs. Arizona Wildcats
\nWednesday, 12\/11\/13, 9:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Arizona -15
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Arizona -14.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Arizona Wildcats are one of the best defensive teams in the country<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New Mexico continues its four-game, 10-day road swing as it heads to Tucson, with the program looking to bounce back from an 80-68 setback to the Gonzaga Bulldogs as 13.5-point underdogs Saturday.\u00a0 The Aggies are outscoring opponents by 6.6 points per game, which is important to consider when making your NCAA basketball picks Wednesday night.\u00a0 The program is minus-7.7 in rebounding margin over its last three games, which is far different than its plus-8.6 in that category in its first seven contests to open the season.\u00a0 New Mexico is 0-5 ATS in its last five games versus Pac-12 Conference opponents.<\/p>\n

The Aggies are led by junior guard Daniel Mullings offensively, as he\u2019s scoring 17.6 points per game\u2014shooting 49.3 percent from the field.\u00a0 New Mexico State is 12-34 SU when playing on he road against Arizona, while its last win in this series coming on Dec. 13, 1971.\u00a0 The program is 3-21 SU all-time against ranked opponents, with its last such triumph coming on Jan. 20, 2007.<\/p>\n

Arizona has landed the No. 1 spot in the AP Top 25 poll for the first time since 2003, while it has compiled a Pac-12-best 89-28 record since the start of the 2010-11 campaign under head coach Sean Miller.\u00a0 The Wildcats are ranked ninth nationally in both field goal percentage defense and scoring defense, which is hard to ignored when looking over the college basketball odds page.\u00a0 The stop unit is allowing foes to knock down just 40.5 percent of their shots from the two-point area.\u00a0 Arizona is 9-3 ATS in its last 12 non-conference affairs.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats have won the rebounding battle in each of their nine games this season and rank second in the country with a plus-14.1 margin.\u00a0 Arizona has also been stellar from the three-point area at the McKale Center\u2014knocking down 41-of-101 shots in that situation.\u00a0 Three players are averaging double figures offensively, with junior guard Nick Johnson leading the way at 16.6 points a contest.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Wildcats due to their 8-1 ATS mark versus teams 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":"

New Mexico State Aggies vs. Arizona Wildcats Wednesday, 12\/11\/13, 9:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Arizona -15 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Arizona -14.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker New Mexico continues its four-game, 10-day road swing as it heads to Tucson, with the program looking to bounce back from an 80-68 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[578,7413,5650,30,3846,5683,5263],"class_list":["post-31726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-arizona-wildcats","tag-daniel-mullings","tag-mckale-center","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-new-mexico-state-aggies","tag-nick-johnson","tag-pac-12-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31726","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=31726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31727,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31726\/revisions\/31727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}