{"id":33068,"date":"2014-02-16T09:14:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T14:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=33068"},"modified":"2014-02-16T09:14:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T14:14:11","slug":"college-basketball-predictions-wisconsin-badgers-vs-michigan-wolverines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-predictions-wisconsin-badgers-vs-michigan-wolverines-33068\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Predictions: Wisconsin Badgers vs. Michigan Wolverines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wisconsin Badgers vs. Michigan Wolverines
\nSunday, 2\/16\/14, 1:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan -4.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan -4
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Wisconsin Badgers are 1-4-1 ATS as road underdogs of 3.5 to 6 points the last two-plus seasons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wisconsin has won three games in a row, including a 78-70 victory over the Minnesota Golden Gophers as 8.5-point home favorites last Thursday, while going OVER the betting total for the second time in three contests.\u00a0 The Badgers are enjoying their best offense in the Bo Rya era\u2014averaging 73.2 points per game\u2014up 8.2 from a year ago.\u00a0 The team has four of five probable starters scoring in double figures, with forward Sam Dekker leading the way at 13.4 points a contest, which is important to consider when making your college basketball predictions.\u00a0 Wisconsin is 1-5 SU and 1-4-1 ATS as road underdogs of 3.5 to 6 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Badgers are 5-2 against teams currently ranked in the AP Top 25, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college basketball odds page.\u00a0 Wisconsin has won 12 of its last 14 meetings with Michigan, including a season sweep a year ago.\u00a0 Ryan owns a 17-6 record in the series, including an 11-2 mark when matching up with Michigan head coach John Beilein.<\/p>\n

Michigan has alternated wins and losses over its last five games, as it comes off a 70-60 victory over the Ohio State Buckeyes as 3.5-point road underdogs\u2014the first triumph in Columbus during the Beilein era.\u00a0 The Wolverines have posted a solid 44-22 record in Big Ten Conference play over the last four seasons, while they\u2019ve won all 27 games under Beilein when scoring 80 or more points.\u00a0 Michigan is 5-1 SU and 3-3 ATS as home favorites of 3.5 to 6 points since the 2011-12 campaign.<\/p>\n

The Wolverines own a 56-9 SU record over the last four seasons at the Crisler Center, while they\u2019ve averaged 81.5 points per game and outscored opponents by a 23.4-point margin this year.\u00a0 Michigan is shooting 52.1 percent at home while holding opponents to just 39.9.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total, as the UNDER is 4-1 in the last five meetings in this series when played in Ann Arbor.<\/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":"

Wisconsin Badgers vs. Michigan Wolverines Sunday, 2\/16\/14, 1:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan -4.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan -4 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Wisconsin has won three games in a row, including a 78-70 victory over the Minnesota Golden Gophers as 8.5-point home favorites last Thursday, while going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":26007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3442,5886,6358,3984,468,8036,437],"class_list":["post-33068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-bo-ryan","tag-crisler-center","tag-john-beilein","tag-michigan-wolverines","tag-sam-dekker","tag-wisconsin-badgers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33068","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=33068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33070,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33068\/revisions\/33070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}