{"id":32738,"date":"2014-01-25T16:31:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T21:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=32738"},"modified":"2014-01-25T16:31:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T21:31:16","slug":"college-basketball-predictions-michigan-wolverines-vs-michigan-state-spartans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-predictions-michigan-wolverines-vs-michigan-state-spartans-32738\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Predictions: Michigan Wolverines vs. Michigan State Spartans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michigan Wolverines vs. Michigan State Spartans
\nSaturday, 1\/25\/12, 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -5.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 137
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 138.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Michigan State Spartans will likely be undermanned against the Michigan Wolverines Saturday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Michigan has won eight games in a row, including a 75-67 victory over the Iowa Hawkeyes as three-point home favorites last time out, while going UNDER the betting total for the first time in four contests.\u00a0 The Wolverines are led offensively by sophomore guard Nik Stauskas, who is averaging 18.5 points a contests\u2014shooting 49.5 percent from the field and 44.0 from beyond the arc.\u00a0 The program has won 21 games over ranked opponents in the John Beilein era, with 10 of those coming against top-10 foes.\u00a0 Michigan is 1-2 SUATS as road underdogs of 3.5 to 6 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Wolverines lead the country in committing just 14.8 fouls per game, while they\u2019ve relied on an eight-man rotation since the start of Big Ten Conference play.\u00a0 Michigan is shooting a conference-best 48.7 percent from the field, while it has eclipsed the 80-point mark seven times during the 2013-14 campaign.\u00a0 Over the last three seasons, the team has averaged less than 10 turnovers and ranks consistently in the top 10 nationally.<\/p>\n

Michigan State has won 11 games in a row, while it has allowed an average of just 61.4 points per game since the start of league play\u2014the best such figures in the Big Ten over that span.\u00a0 The Spartans have two probable starters averaging in double figures, with sophomore guard Gary Harris leading the way at 18.3 points a contest.\u00a0 It\u2019s also important to point out that point guard Keith Appling has as many 20-point, 7-assists games as the rest of the conference combined.\u00a0 Michigan State is 5-0 SU and 4-1 ATS as home favorites of 3.5 to 6 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Spartans are 20-12 against the Wolverines under longtime head coach Tom Izzo, which is important to consider when making your college basketball predictions.\u00a0 Michigan State has used nine different starting lineups in the last 14 games\u2014something that must be taken into account when handicapping with Brandon Dawson and Adreian Payne both expected to miss this in-state matchup.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Spartans due to the home team being 4-1 ATS in the last five meetings.<\/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":"

Michigan Wolverines vs. Michigan State Spartans Saturday, 1\/25\/12, 7:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -5.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 137 Current Total:\u00a0 138.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Michigan has won eight games in a row, including a 75-67 victory over the Iowa Hawkeyes as three-point home favorites last time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[7971,3442,8079,500,468,7805,778],"class_list":["post-32738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-adreian-payne","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-brandon-dawson","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-michigan-wolverines","tag-nik-stauskas","tag-tom-izzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32738","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=32738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32739,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32738\/revisions\/32739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}