{"id":31847,"date":"2013-12-17T19:05:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T00:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31847"},"modified":"2013-12-17T19:05:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T00:05:07","slug":"ncaa-mens-basketball-11-wichita-state-shockers-at-alabama-crimson-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-mens-basketball-11-wichita-state-shockers-at-alabama-crimson-tide-31847\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Men&#8217;s Basketball:  (11) Wichita State Shockers at Alabama Crimson Tide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Gregg-Marshal-wichita-state-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19745\" alt=\"Gregg Marshal-wichita-state-11\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Gregg-Marshal-wichita-state-11.jpg\" width=\"464\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Gregg-Marshal-wichita-state-11.jpg 464w, https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Gregg-Marshal-wichita-state-11-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/a><strong>Wichita State at Alabama<br \/>\nTime: 9 PM ET, Dec 17, 2013<br \/>\nTV: ESPN U<br \/>\nSpread: WICH -2.5<br \/>\nTotal: 127<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Odds Courtesy of Bovada<\/p>\n<p>The No. 11 ranked Wichita State Shockers have begun the season 10-0 and have won 9 of the 10 games by nine points or more. Tonight, that is expected to be a bit different as the squad faces off against a tough SEC team in Alabama. College basketball oddsmakers at Bovada favor the Shockers still by 2.5 points on the road.<\/p>\n<p>The Shockers have four players averaging double figures, led by Ron Baker&#8217;s 14.6 points per game. Cleanthony Early drew a lot of attention in the NCAA tournament last season and he&#8217;s been very good for Wichita thus far too, with 14.2 points and 6 rebounds per game in 27 minutes a night.<\/p>\n<p>Wichita is a bit short on depth and its starters log big minutes, which could be a problem against a lot of the better teams which sport solid nine and ten man rotations. But the Shockers have been very good in March and that&#8217;s what has propelled the program to the pinnacle its now reached.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama is just 5-4 on the season, but the schedule has been reasonably tough. The Crimson Tide have taken advantage of the gifts in the schedule but have yet to beat a quality opponent. The Crimson Tide aren&#8217;t passing the ball very well, either, ranking near the bottom of all D-1 schools in assists per game (11.3).<\/p>\n<p>Trevor Releford is averaging 16.4 points per game and Retin Obasohan posts 15.2 per night as well for Alabama. Releford is a deadeye shooter and he&#8217;s hitting 48. percent from the floor, 96 percent from the line, and 38.6 percent from behind the arc.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nWichita Trends:<\/strong> UNDER 7-1 in last 8 Tuesday games; 16-5-2 ATS in last 23 overall; 23-8 in last 31 road games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alabama Trends:<\/strong> UNDER 19-7 in last 26 home games; UNDER 21-8 in last 29 non-conf games; UNDER 35-16 in last 51 overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wichita State at Alabama Time: 9 PM ET, Dec 17, 2013 TV: ESPN U Spread: WICH -2.5 Total: 127 Odds Courtesy of Bovada The No. 11 ranked Wichita State Shockers have begun the season 10-0 and have won 9 of the 10 games by nine points or more. Tonight, that is expected to be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":19745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[462,7155,7877,7878,739,6279],"class_list":["post-31847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-college-basketball-oddsmakers","tag-ncaa-basketball-picks-and-predictions","tag-ncaa-betting-oddds","tag-sec","tag-wichita-state-shockers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31847","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=31847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31848,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31847\/revisions\/31848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}