{"id":32780,"date":"2014-01-27T21:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T02:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=32780"},"modified":"2014-01-27T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T20:54:09","slug":"college-basketball-predictions-michigan-state-spartans-vs-iowa-hawkeyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-predictions-michigan-state-spartans-vs-iowa-hawkeyes-32780\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Predictions: Michigan State Spartans vs. Iowa Hawkeyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michigan State Spartans vs. Iowa Hawkeyes
\nTuesday, 1\/28\/14, 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Iowa -5.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Iowa -5.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Iowa Hawkeyes are the only Big Ten squad with a perfect home record<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Michigan State had its 11-game winning streak snapped last Saturday, as it dropped a 80-75 decision to the Michigan Wolverines as five-point home favorites, while going OVER the betting total of 137.\u00a0 The Spartans committed a season-low five turnovers in that affair, which is important to consider when making your college basketball predictions Tuesday night.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is led by guard Gary Harris, who has tallied 20-plus points in seven contests during the 2013-14 campaign.\u00a0 Michigan State is 8-3 ATS in its last 11 games overall.<\/p>\n

The Spartans have won all three of their games decided by four or fewer points, but they\u2019ll be playing without the services of Branden Dawson and Adreian Payne, who are out with hand and foot injuries respectively.\u00a0 Michigan State ranks first in the Big Ten Conference in assists per game, which has led directly to averaging 79.7 points a contest.\u00a0 Point guard Keith Appling will need to be masterful to pull off the upset\u2014entering third in the league with a 2.5 assist-to-turnover ratio.<\/p>\n

Iowa is 4-1 SUATS over its last five games, as it comes off a 76-50 victory over the Northwestern Wildcats as 9.5-point road favorites last Saturday, while going UNDER the betting total for a second consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Hawkeyes are the only team in the league with an undefeated home record, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college basketball odds page. \u00a0 Two probable starters are averaging double figures, with senior guard Roy Devyn Marble leading the way at 16.1 points a contest.\u00a0 Iowa is 37-14 ATS in its last 51 home games.<\/p>\n

The Hawkeyes have dropped 11 of their last 12 meetings against the Michigan State Spartans, including both last year by a 3-point margin.\u00a0 All four of Iowa\u2019s losses have come by eight or fewer points to ranked teams, while it tries to tie a Carver-Hawkeye Arena record with 21 consecutive wins at the venue.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to handicap the fact that the squad\u2019s bench is averaging 34.7 points and 21 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total, as the OVER is 8-3 in the Hawkeyes\u2019 last 11 home 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":"

Michigan State Spartans vs. Iowa Hawkeyes Tuesday, 1\/28\/14, 7:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Iowa -5.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Iowa -5.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Michigan State had its 11-game winning streak snapped last Saturday, as it dropped a 80-75 decision to the Michigan Wolverines as five-point home favorites, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3442,7302,1281,5831,500,7272],"class_list":["post-32780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-gary-harris","tag-iowa-hawkeyes","tag-keith-appling","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-roy-devyn-marble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32780","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=32780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32782,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32780\/revisions\/32782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}