{"id":33019,"date":"2014-02-12T21:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T02:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=33019"},"modified":"2014-02-12T18:54:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T23:54:54","slug":"college-basketball-predictions-northwestern-wildcats-vs-michigan-state-spartans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-predictions-northwestern-wildcats-vs-michigan-state-spartans-33019\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Predictions: Northwestern Wildcats vs. Michigan State Spartans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Northwestern Wildcats vs. Michigan State Spartans
\nThursday, 2\/13\/14, 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -14.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -14.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker
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The Michigan State Spartans are 28-4 SU against the Northwestern Wildcats under Tom Izzo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Northwestern seeks its fourth straight Big Ten Conference road win, while it also attempts to bounce back from a 53-49 defeat to the Nebraska Cornhuskers as two-point home favorites last Saturday.\u00a0 The Wildcats have two probable starters averaging in double figures, with senior forward Drew Crawford leading the way at 16.1 points a contest, which is important to consider when making your college basketball predictions.\u00a0 \u00a0 Offensively, the team is averaging 60.8 points per game on 39.8 percent shooting.\u00a0 Northwestern is 4-1 ATS in its last five games versus a team with a winning percentage above .600.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats defense has keyed the team\u2019s revival over the last eight games, as they\u2019ve held foes to a combined 34.8 percent shooting from the field.\u00a0 Northwestern needs a major performance by Tre Demps if it hopes to pull off an upset, as he\u2019s averaging 10.5 points per game off the bench, including scoring in double figures 15 times.<\/p>\n

Michigan State has alternated wins and losses over its six games, as it dropped a 60-58 decision to the Wisconsin Badgers as four-point road underdogs Sunday, while going UNDER the betting total for the third time in four contests.\u00a0 The Spartans have two probable starters averaging in double figures, with sophomore guard Gary Harris and Adreian Payne scoring 17.6 and 15.9 points per game respectively.\u00a0 Payne has averaged 18.0 points since returning from a foot injury.\u00a0 Michigan State is 5-1 ATS in its last six games following a SU loss.<\/p>\n

The Spartans have compiled a dominating 28-4 SU record against the Wildcats under the direction of head coach Tom Izzo, while they\u2019ve also captured 44 of their last 48 games overall at the Breslin Center.\u00a0 Michigan State is on pace to shatter the mark for fewest turnovers during the Izzo era, as its currently averaging 11.3 miscues per game, with the previous record being 13.0 in 2011-12.\u00a0 The program has used 13 different starting lineups in the last 19 games.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Spartans due to their 11-4 ATS mark in their last 15 games.<\/p>\n

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Northwestern Wildcats vs. Michigan State Spartans Thursday, 2\/13\/14, 7:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -14.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -14.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Northwestern seeks its fourth straight Big Ten Conference road win, while it also attempts to bounce back from a 53-49 defeat to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[7971,3874,6249,500,3119,778],"class_list":["post-33019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-adreian-payne","tag-breslin-center","tag-drew-crawford","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-northwestern-wildcats","tag-tom-izzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33019","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=33019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33020,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33019\/revisions\/33020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}