{"id":32835,"date":"2014-01-31T11:45:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T16:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=32835"},"modified":"2014-01-31T11:45:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T16:45:40","slug":"college-basketball-predictions-princeton-tigers-vs-harvard-crimson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-predictions-princeton-tigers-vs-harvard-crimson-32835\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Predictions: Princeton Tigers vs. Harvard Crimson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Princeton Tigers vs. Harvard Crimson
\nFriday, 1\/31\/14, 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Harvard -8.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Harvard -8
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Harvard Crimson and Princeton Tigers meet up in a high-profile Ivy League matchup Friday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Princeton has won three of its last four games, but two of those victories have come against non-lined opponents, including a 84-54 win over Kean University Sunday.\u00a0 Defense was the difference between last year\u2019s home win and road loss for the Tigers against the Crimson, which is important to consider when making your college basketball predictions Friday night.\u00a0 Offensively, the squad is on its way to breaking program records for 3-pointers made and attempted this season, but it\u2019ll face a great perimeter defense in this matchup.\u00a0 Princeton is 0-4 SU and 3-1 ATS as road underdogs of 6.5 to 9 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Tigers have made the Harvard-Dartmouth trip annually since 1958\u2014sweeping the trip 33 times, splitting the trip 19 times, and being swept four times.\u00a0 Princeton and Harvard are the top two scoring teams in the Ivy League, while they also possess the two best turnover margins.\u00a0 Entering the week, the team leads the country in fewest total turnovers and fewest fouls committed.<\/p>\n

Harvard has alternated wins and losses over its last five games, as it looks to build off a 80-50 blowout victory over Dartmouth as 12-point road favorites Sunday, while going OVER the betting total for the first time in six opportunities.\u00a0 The Crimson will be putting their 17-game home winning streak on the line, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college basketball odds page.\u00a0 The team\u2019s 15-3 SU record is the third best start in program history.\u00a0 Harvard is 5-0 SU and 2-3 ATS as home favorites of 6.5 to 9 points since the start of the 2011-12 campaign.<\/p>\n

The Crimson rely heavily on playing great defense under head coach Tommy Amaker, as they\u2019ve limited opponents to 60.4 points per game this season.\u00a0 Harvard is 7-0 SU this season when holding opponents to fewer than 60 points and has captured all seven contests when limited foes to under 40 percent shooting from the field.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Crimson due to the home team covering six of the last eight meetings in this series.<\/p>\n

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Princeton Tigers vs. Harvard Crimson Friday, 1\/31\/14, 7:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Harvard -8.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Harvard -8 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Princeton has won three of its last four games, but two of those victories have come against non-lined opponents, including a 84-54 win over Kean […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[9528,4410,4415,4453,6050],"class_list":["post-32835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-college-basketball","tag-harvard-crimson","tag-ivy-league","tag-princeton-tigers","tag-tommy-amaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32835","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=32835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32836,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32835\/revisions\/32836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}