{"id":32394,"date":"2014-01-07T23:30:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T04:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=32394"},"modified":"2014-01-07T20:13:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T01:13:57","slug":"college-basketball-picks-minnesota-golden-gophers-vs-penn-state-nittany-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-minnesota-golden-gophers-vs-penn-state-nittany-lions-32394\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Minnesota Golden Gophers vs. Penn State Nittany Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minnesota Golden Gophers vs. Penn State Nittany Lions
\nWednesday, 1\/8\/14, 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Minnesota PK
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Minnesota -1
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Penn State Nittany Lions have dropped back-to-back games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Minnesota has won seven of its last eight games, including an 82-79 victory over the Purdue Boilermakers as 7.5-point home favorites last time out, while going OVER the betting total for the first time in three contests.\u00a0 The Golden Gophers are playing just their second true road game of the 2013-14 campaign, which is important to consider when making your college basketball betting picks.\u00a0 The team leads the Big Ten Conference in steals per game and free throw percentage, while ranking fourth in assists and turnover margin.\u00a0 Minnesota is 2-9 ATS in its last 11 road games.<\/p>\n

The Golden Gophers knocked down 11-of-24 attempts from beyond the arc last time out, which is important to consider when looking over the college basketball odds page.\u00a0 Minnesota has three players averaging in double figures, with guard Andre Hollins leading the charge at 15.9 points a contest.\u00a0 He was named to the John R. Wooden Award Preseason list as one of the nation\u2019s top players coming in.<\/p>\n

Penn State has dropped back-to-back games, including a 75-55 setback to the Illinois Fighting Illini as 8.5-point road underdogs last time out, while going UNDER the betting total in each of those affairs.\u00a0 The Nittany Lions have five players scoring in double figures after 15 games, with the team averaging 78.3 points per game.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that the starting unit accounts for 81 percent of the team\u2019s offense.\u00a0 Penn State is 8-3 ATS in its last 11 games following a loss.<\/p>\n

The Nittany Lions are led by the guard combination of Tim Frazier and D.J. Newbill, who rank seventh and second respectively in the Big Ten in scoring.\u00a0 Penn State is 10-29 SU all-time in this series\u2014dropping the last two meetings.\u00a0 The program\u2019s last wins in this matchup came in a season sweep in 2010-11 by identical 66-63 scores.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total, as the OVER is 7-1 in the last eight meetings at this venue.<\/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":"

Minnesota Golden Gophers vs. Penn State Nittany Lions Wednesday, 1\/8\/14, 7:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Minnesota PK Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Minnesota -1 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Minnesota has won seven of its last eight games, including an 82-79 victory over the Purdue Boilermakers as 7.5-point home favorites last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":26014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32394","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=32394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32396,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32394\/revisions\/32396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}