{"id":32656,"date":"2014-01-20T20:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T01:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=32656"},"modified":"2014-01-20T19:00:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T00:00:21","slug":"college-basketball-predictions-indiana-hoosiers-vs-michigan-state-spartans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-predictions-indiana-hoosiers-vs-michigan-state-spartans-32656\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Predictions: Indiana Hoosiers vs. Michigan State Spartans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indiana Hoosiers vs. Michigan State Spartans
\nTuesday, 1\/21\/14, 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -13
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -12.5
\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 are off to their best one-loss start in school history<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Indiana had its two-game winning streak snapped last time out, as it suffered a 54-47 setback to the Northwestern Wildcats as 13-point home favorites, while going UNDER the betting total of 132.5.\u00a0 The Hoosiers are fourth nationally in rebounding and third in differential in that all-important statistical category, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your college basketball predictions Tuesday night.\u00a0 The program\u2019s nine wins over top-10 teams since 2011-12 trails only Kansas and Ohio State.\u00a0 Indiana is 11-10 ATS on the road the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Hoosiers will need a major offensive performance from sophomore guard Kevin Ferrell to pull off the upset, as he leads the Big Ten Conference in averaging 19.2 points per game, which is up 9.8 a contest from a year ago.\u00a0 Indiana also has a capable big man in freshman forward Noah Vonleh, who has six double-doubles during the 2013-14 campaign.\u00a0 He leads the conference in scoring, rebounds and blocks among first-year players.<\/p>\n

Michigan State is off to its best one-loss start in school history, as it prepares to face Indiana for the second time in less than three weeks, which is important to consider when looking over the college basketball lines.\u00a0 The Spartans are expecting to be without big man Adreian Payne for a fourth consecutive contest, but they\u2019ll likely have enough offensive firepower in the lineup, especially with sophomore Gary Harris\u2019 career numbers in this series.\u00a0 The sophomore has averaged 22.0 points in three meetings against the Hoosiers since arriving on campus.\u00a0 Michigan State is 4-0 SU and 3-1 ATS as home favorites of 12.5 to 15 points since the start of the 2011-12 campaign.<\/p>\n

The Spartans are a dominating 132-22 against conference opponents at the Breslin Center under longtime head coach Tom Izzo, while they\u2019ve won 42 of their last 45 overall games at the venue.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is averaging 80.4 points and hitting 47.9 percent of its shots, which has played a huge role in its +16.6-point scoring margin.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Spartans due to the home team being 16-6 ATS in the last 22 meetings in this rivalry.<\/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":"

Indiana Hoosiers vs. Michigan State Spartans Tuesday, 1\/21\/14, 7:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -13 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -12.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Indiana had its two-game winning streak snapped last time out, as it suffered a 54-47 setback to the Northwestern Wildcats as 13-point […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":26003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3442,3874,7302,2485,500,8060,778],"class_list":["post-32656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-breslin-center","tag-gary-harris","tag-indiana-hoosiers","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-noah-vonleh","tag-tom-izzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32656","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=32656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32659,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32656\/revisions\/32659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}