{"id":32641,"date":"2014-01-20T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=32641"},"modified":"2014-01-20T11:49:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T16:49:00","slug":"college-basketball-predictions-creighton-bluejays-vs-villanova-wildcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-predictions-creighton-bluejays-vs-villanova-wildcats-32641\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Predictions: Creighton Bluejays vs. Villanova Wildcats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Creighton Bluejays vs. Villanova Wildcats
\nMonday, 1\/20\/14, 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Villanova -7
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Villanova -6
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 149
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 147
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Creighton Blue Jays have struggled against ranked opponents historically<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Creighton had its 10-game winning streak snapped last time out, as it suffered a 81-68 setback to the Providence Friars as four-point road favorites, while going OVER the betting total for a third consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Blue Jays are led by five-time Big East Conference Player of the Week Doug McDermott, who is averaging 24.9 points and 7.2 rebounds per game, which is important to consider when making your college basketball predictions.\u00a0 Creighton is 4-4 SUATS as underdogs the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 6-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Bluejays are 18-118 SU all-time against ranked opponents, including 25 consecutive defeats when playing a true road game in that situation, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college basketball odds page.\u00a0 Creighton has compiled a solid 33-12 SU record when playing away from home the last three years.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is leading the nation in shooting 42.4 percent from beyond the arc, while it averages 10.83 makes per game from that area.<\/p>\n

Villanova has won five games in a row, including a 88-62 victory over the DePaul Blue Demons as 17-point home favorites last Saturday, while going OVER the betting total for the seventh consecutive affair.\u00a0 The Wildcats have three probable starters averaging in double figures, with forward JayVaughn Pinkston leading the way at 15.6 points a contest.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that the program is 39-10 SU when scoring 70 or more points over the last two-plus seasons.\u00a0 Villanova is 30-5 SU and 22-12 ATS as a favorite since the start of the 2011-12 campaign.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats have outscored their opponents by an average of 16.1 points over their last 10 games, with the bench accounting for 13.2 points of that disparity.\u00a0 Villanova hasn\u2019t allowed an opponent to convert more than 50 percent of its field goal attempts since Nov. 16, 2012\u2014a stretch of 47 consecutive games.\u00a0 Pinkston enters this affair with 1,026 career points.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Wildcats due to their 4-0 ATS mark in their last four Big East Conference games.<\/p>\n

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Creighton Bluejays vs. Villanova Wildcats Monday, 1\/20\/14, 7:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Villanova -7 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Villanova -6 Opening Total:\u00a0 149 Current Total:\u00a0 147 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Creighton had its 10-game winning streak snapped last time out, as it suffered a 81-68 setback to the Providence Friars as four-point road favorites, while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[2497,4797,5798,7389,752],"class_list":["post-32641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-east-conference","tag-creighton-bluejays","tag-doug-mcdermott","tag-jayvaughn-pinkston","tag-villanova-wildcats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32641","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=32641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32643,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32641\/revisions\/32643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}