{"id":32184,"date":"2013-12-30T23:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T04:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=32184"},"modified":"2013-12-30T17:51:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T22:51:24","slug":"ncaa-basketball-picks-ohio-state-buckeyes-vs-purdue-boilermakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-picks-ohio-state-buckeyes-vs-purdue-boilermakers-32184\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Picks: Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Purdue Boilermakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Purdue Boilermakers
\nMonday, 12\/30\/13, 1:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Ohio State -7.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Ohio State -7.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Ohio State Buckeyes are 5-0 ATS in their last five Big Ten Conference games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ohio State has won its first 13 games to open up the 2013-14 season, including a 71-31 blowout victory over Louisiana-Monroe as 24-point home favorites last Friday, while going UNDER the betting total in its last three contests.\u00a0 The Buckeyes are 7-2 SU in Big Ten Conference openers under head coach Thad Matta, including a 2-2 mark when playing on the road, which is important to consider when making your NCAA basketball picks.\u00a0 The program has compiled a 4-2 SU record when playing on New Year\u2019s Eve under Matta\u2019s watch.\u00a0 Ohio State is 5-0 ATS in its last five conference games.<\/p>\n

The Buckeyes haven\u2019t allowed an opponent to reach 70 points this season, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college basketball odds page.\u00a0 In five of its last eight games, Ohio State has connected on better than 52 percent of its field goals, while the team has won 34 consecutive games when connecting on better than half its shots.\u00a0 Point guard Aaron Craft is the school\u2019s all-time leader in assists and steals, while he\u2019s averaged 11.8 points a game in his career in this series.<\/p>\n

Purdue ended its non-conference portion of the schedule nine days ago with its biggest win of the season to date, as it came away with a 73-70 victory over the West Virginia Mountaineers as 5.5-point road underdogs, while going UNDER the betting total of 147.5.\u00a0 The Boilermakers are one of 21 schools nationally that boast a home record of 8-0 or better, as they\u2019ve outscored opponents by almost 17 points per game at Mackey Arena.\u00a0 The team has 10 players averaging between 4.5 and 14.0 points per game and 13.6 and 28.3 minutes per contest.\u00a0 Purdue is 7-3 ATS in its last 10 games versus teams with a winning record.<\/p>\n

The Boilermakers have gone 5-12 against the Buckeyes under Matt Painter\u2014his worst record against any Big Ten foe.\u00a0 Eight times an unranked Purdue squad coached by Painter has faced a nationally-ranked Ohio State team\u2014with the program dropping each of those meetings by an average of 12.6 points.\u00a0 The team is 19-77 SU all-time against teams ranked in the top five nationally.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Buckeyes due to their 9-3 ATS mark in the last 12 meetings in this series.<\/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":"

Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Purdue Boilermakers Monday, 12\/30\/13, 1:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Ohio State -7.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Ohio State -7.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Ohio State has won its first 13 games to open up the 2013-14 season, including a 71-31 blowout victory over Louisiana-Monroe as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[7134,3442,4019,463,1295,4004],"class_list":["post-32184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-aaron-craft","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-matt-painter","tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","tag-purdue-boilermakers","tag-thad-matta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32184","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=32184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32187,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32184\/revisions\/32187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}