{"id":32315,"date":"2014-01-04T09:30:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T14:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=32315"},"modified":"2014-01-04T09:30:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T14:30:06","slug":"ncaa-basketball-picks-michigan-state-spartans-vs-indiana-hoosiers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-picks-michigan-state-spartans-vs-indiana-hoosiers-2-32315\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Picks: Michigan State Spartans vs. Indiana Hoosiers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michigan State Spartans vs. Indiana Hoosiers
\nSaturday, 1\/4\/14, 2:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -2
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -3.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Michigan State Spartans have dropped their last three games against the Indiana Hoosiers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Michigan State travels to Indiana to open up Big Ten Conference play with a second straight road game for the fourth time in nine seasons, with the team posting a perfect 12-0 SU record when outshooting its opponent during the 2013-14 campaign.\u00a0 The Spartans have four players averaging in double figures, with sophomore guard Gary Harris leading the way at 17.4 points a contest.\u00a0 Michigan State is 2-3 SUATS as road favorites of three or fewer points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Spartans dropped both meetings against the Hoosiers by a combined nine points a season ago, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the NCAA basketball lines.\u00a0 Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo has sent out seven different starting lineups in the last eight games, but it has still managed to rank second in the conference in averaging 83.3 points per game.\u00a0 Ball movement has been the key to the team\u2019s early success on the offensive end\u2014ranking second in the nation in dishing out 19.2 assists per contest.<\/p>\n

Indiana returned just one starter from last year\u2019s Big Ten championship squad, which is important to consider when making your NCAA basketball picks.\u00a0 The Hoosiers lead the nation in out-rebounding opponents by an average of 13.9 boards per game, while they\u2019ve managed to shoot 52.3 percent from the field and 40 percent from beyond the arc in their last three games.\u00a0 Since the 2011-12 season, the program has compiled a dominating 44-3 SU record at Assembly Hall.\u00a0 Indiana is 10-5 SU and 5-9-1 ATS in January the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Hoosiers are led offensively by the play of sophomore Kevin Ferrell, who is averaging 17.7 points and is one of the 10 most improved scorers in the country from a year ago.\u00a0 He has made great strides in his long distance shooting\u2014knocking down 44 percent of his attempts this season after making 30.3 percent as a freshman.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total, as the UNDER is 6-1 in the Spartans\u2019 last seven conference games.<\/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":"

Michigan State Spartans vs. Indiana Hoosiers Saturday, 1\/4\/14, 2:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -2 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -3.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Michigan State travels to Indiana to open up Big Ten Conference play with a second straight road game for the fourth time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4011,3442,7302,2485,8004,500,778],"class_list":["post-32315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-assembly-hall","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-gary-harris","tag-indiana-hoosiers","tag-kevin-ferrell","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-tom-izzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32315","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=32315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32316,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32315\/revisions\/32316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}