{"id":32459,"date":"2014-01-11T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=32459"},"modified":"2014-01-10T21:03:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T02:03:42","slug":"college-basketball-predictions-minnesota-golden-gophers-vs-michigan-state-spartans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-predictions-minnesota-golden-gophers-vs-michigan-state-spartans-32459\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Predictions: Minnesota Golden Gophers vs. Michigan State Spartans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minnesota Golden Gophers vs. Michigan State Spartans
\nSaturday, 1\/11\/14, 2:15 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -11
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -11
\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 are 26-9 SU against the Minnesota Golden Gophers under head coach Tom Izzo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Minnesota has won back-to-back games, including a 68-65 victory over the Penn State Nittany Lions as 1.5-point road favorites Wednesday, while going UNDER the betting total for the third time in four contests.\u00a0 The Golden Gophers are 5-7 SU against ranked opponents since the start of last season, including a 1-3 mark versus top-five foes, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college basketball odds page.\u00a0 The program leads the league in steals per game and free throw percentage.\u00a0 Minnesota is 2-0 ATS as road underdogs of 9.5 to 12 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Golden Gophers have three players averaging in double figures, with guard Andre Hollins leading the way at 15.8 points a contest.\u00a0 Minnesota will need a big game from junior center Elliott Eliason to pull off the upset in this matchup, as he ranks third in the Big Ten Conference in averaging 8.5 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n

Michigan State is 7-0 SU and 5-2 ATS over its last seven games, as it comes off a 72-68 overtime victory over the Ohio State Buckeyes as five-point home favorites Tuesday, while going OVER the betting total for the first time in four contests.\u00a0 The Spartans are one of eight schools in the country with three players averaging 15 points or more, which is important to consider when making your college basketball predictions.\u00a0 Sophomore guard Gary Harris is the team\u2019s offensive leader in scoring 17.8 points a contest.\u00a0 Michigan State is 9-12-2 ATS as home favorites of 9.5 to 12 points in its last 23 opportunities.<\/p>\n

The Spartans have shot better from the field than their opponent in all but one game this season, which has been helped by averaging 18.7 assists on the season.\u00a0 Michigan State has compiled a dominating 26-9 SU record against Minnesota under the direction of longtime head coach Tom Izzo.\u00a0 The program is 334-47 SU all-time at the Breslin Center, including a 172-35 mark versus conference opponents.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total, as the UNDER is 16-5 in the last 21 meetings in this series.<\/p>\n

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Minnesota Golden Gophers vs. Michigan State Spartans Saturday, 1\/11\/14, 2:15 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -11 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -11 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Minnesota has won back-to-back games, including a 68-65 victory over the Penn State Nittany Lions as 1.5-point road favorites Wednesday, while […]<\/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":[7301,3442,3874,7302,500,464,778],"class_list":["post-32459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-andre-hollins","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-breslin-center","tag-gary-harris","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-minnesota-golden-gophers","tag-tom-izzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32459","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=32459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32461,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32459\/revisions\/32461"}],"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=32459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}