{"id":32547,"date":"2014-01-16T12:53:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T17:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=32547"},"modified":"2014-01-16T12:53:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T17:53:44","slug":"college-basketball-picks-ohio-state-buckeyes-vs-minnesota-golden-gophers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-ohio-state-buckeyes-vs-minnesota-golden-gophers-32547\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Minnesota Golden Gophers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Minnesota Golden Gophers
\nThursday, 1\/16\/14, 9:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Ohio State -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Ohio State -3.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 129
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 133
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Ohio State Buckeyes have dropped two consecutive games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ohio State has dropped back-to-back games, including a 84-74 setback to the Iowa Hawkeyes as 6.5-point home favorites Sunday, while going OVER the betting total for a fourth consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Buckeyes are 55-19 SU following a loss during the Thad Matta era, which is important to consider when making your college basketball betting picks.\u00a0 The team is led by point guard Aaron Craft, who ranks first in school history in assists and steals.\u00a0 Ohio State is 13-5 SU and 12-6 ATS as road favorites of 3.5 to 6 points in its last 18 opportunities.<\/p>\n

The Buckeyes are holding opponents to 57.6 points per game, which leads the Big Ten Conference.\u00a0 Ohio State is also second in outscoring opponents by an average of 17.5 points per game\u2014something that can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college basketball odds page.\u00a0 Offensively, the team will need a big offensive game from senior guard Lenzelle Smith Jr., who has scored 10-plus points in 10 of his last 13 games.<\/p>\n

Minnesota returns home after splitting a two-game road trip, as it dropped a 87-75 overtime decision to the Michigan State Spartans last time out, while going OVER the betting total of 138.\u00a0 The Golden Gophers are 5-8 SU against ranked opponents since the start of last season, while they lead the Big Ten in steals per game and free throw percentage.\u00a0 The team has three players averaging in double figures, with guard Andre Hollins leading the way at 16.3 points a contest.\u00a0 Minnesota is 2-0 ATS as home underdogs of 3.5 to 6 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Golden Gophers have a major presence in the paint in junior Elliott Eliason, who leads the team and ranks third in the conference in averaging 8.6 rebounds per game.\u00a0 On the defensive end, Eliason is averaging 2.7 blocks per game, which will prove useful against a balanced Ohio State offensive attack.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total, as the UNDER is 11-4 in the Golden Gophers\u2019 last 15 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":"

Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Minnesota Golden Gophers Thursday, 1\/16\/14, 9:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Ohio State -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Ohio State -3.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 129 Current Total:\u00a0 133 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Ohio State has dropped back-to-back games, including a 84-74 setback to the Iowa Hawkeyes as 6.5-point home favorites Sunday, while going […]<\/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":[7134,7301,3442,8041,464,463],"class_list":["post-32547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-aaron-craft","tag-andre-hollins","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-lenzelle-smith-jr","tag-minnesota-golden-gophers","tag-ohio-state-buckeyes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32547","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=32547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32549,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32547\/revisions\/32549"}],"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=32547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}