{"id":32249,"date":"2014-01-02T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=32249"},"modified":"2014-01-01T19:10:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T00:10:08","slug":"college-basketball-picks-saint-marys-gaels-vs-gonzaga-bulldogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-saint-marys-gaels-vs-gonzaga-bulldogs-32249\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Saint Mary’s Gaels vs. Gonzaga Bulldogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saint Mary\u2019s Gaels vs. Gonzaga Bulldogs
\nThursday, 1\/2\/14, 9:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Gonzaga -6.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Gonzaga -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Gonzaga Bulldogs have dominated conference opponents at home in recent years<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Saint Mary\u2019s ended its three-game losing streak by picking up an 88-80 victory over the Pacific Tigers as three-point road favorites Monday, while going OVER the betting total for the sixth time in seven contests.\u00a0 The Gaels have won a school-record 14 conference games each of the last two seasons, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college basketball odds page.\u00a0 Over the last two-plus seasons, the program owns a 73-16 SU record in league play.\u00a0 Saint Mary\u2019s is 5-2 ATS in its last seven games versus a team with a winning record.<\/p>\n

The Gaels have four probable starters averaging double figures, with junior forward Brad Waldo leading the way at 16.8 points a contest.\u00a0 He has started 72 of 81 games during his career on campus, while being the only WCC player to rank in the top 10 in points, rebounds and field goal percentage.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that Saint Mary\u2019s head coach Randy Bennett will be serving the second of a five-game suspension that was handed down on March 1, 2013.<\/p>\n

Gonzaga has won back-to-back games, including a 69-41 victory over the San Francisco Dons as 15-point home favorites last time out, while going UNDER the betting total for a fourth consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Bulldogs have won their last 21 home games against league foes, which is important to consider when making your college basketball betting picks.\u00a0 Offensively, the team will need a big game out of leading scorer Kevin Pangos, who is averaging 17.6 points per game\u2014but dealing with turf toe.\u00a0 Gonzaga is 5-2-1 ATS in its last eight games versus conference opponents.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs are hoping that center Sam Dower Jr. is able to return to the floor, as he\u2019s missed the last two games with an ailing back.\u00a0 Gonzaga tied the McCarthey Athletic Center record for fewest points allowed in WCC play in the 10 years it has played in the facility last time out.\u00a0 The program is averaging 10.29 turnovers per game, which is slightly lower than its 11.23 figure during the 2012-13 campaign.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total, as the UNDER is 7-1 in the last eight series meetings in Spokane.<\/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":"

Saint Mary\u2019s Gaels vs. Gonzaga Bulldogs Thursday, 1\/2\/14, 9:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Gonzaga -6.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Gonzaga -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Saint Mary\u2019s ended its three-game losing streak by picking up an 88-80 victory over the Pacific Tigers as three-point road favorites Monday, while going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[7338,5729,7990,1376,4229],"class_list":["post-32249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-kevin-pangos","tag-mccarthey-athletic-center","tag-randy-bennett","tag-saint-marys-gaels","tag-wcc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32249","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=32249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32251,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32249\/revisions\/32251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}