Buy Razor Ray’s Picks Today!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nMichigan State<\/h3>\n
Michigan State is still looking for leadership on the floor as this team searches for a stronger identity.<\/p>\n
Draymond Green was such a good leader for this team the past few years it would have been unfair for another to pop up as soon as he left campus.<\/p>\n
The Spartans are solid at point guard with Keith Appling, who leads the team in points and assists, but he lack the intensity to make this team go. \u00a0Another possibility is freshman guard Gary Harris who is second on the team in scoring but<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t recall a Spartans team that looked to a frosh in that way.<\/p>\n
Still they have a very nice backcourt.<\/p>\n
The Spartans are a lousy 3-7 ATS this year including 0-2 in their true road contests.<\/p>\n
They have owned the Gophers of late though, winning the last 4 and 9 of 10 while posting an 8-2 ATS record. \u00a0There is no reason they can not grab a road underdog victory but there is a reason they are in that role. \u00a0Minnesota is pretty good. [ad-6571516]<\/p>\n
Minnesota<\/h3>\n
The strong play of the Gophers in the nonconference is one of the reason the Big Ten is looking so strong right now.<\/p>\n
The Gophers only loss is to Duke and they have a nice wins against name program like Florida State, Stanford, Xavier and Memphis. \u00a0This is a stingy defensive team that has good experience and some star power.<\/p>\n
They are going to be a threat every night in their conference battles.<\/p>\n
Those stars are forwards Rodney WIlliams and Trevor Mbakwe. \u00a0Williams is the team\u2019s leading scorer and with his freakish athleticism he always good for a Sportscenter highlight.<\/p>\n
Mbakwe is back for a sixth year and has struggled to get things going this season. \u00a0Last year he nearly averaged a double-double and they need his muscle in the paint.<\/p>\n
The backcourt of Hollins, Hollins and Coleman (not a law firm) is vastly underrated.<\/p>\n
Minnesota is 7-4 ATS but as the expectations have risen they have not losing \u00a0their last two ATS despite collecting easy SU victories.<\/p>\n
The one factor not to be overlooked tonight is that there might not be as much home court advantage in this one as usual.<\/p>\n
It is New Year\u2019s Eve and most of the students are home on holidays to boot.<\/p>\n
That only helps the visitors.<\/p>\n
Spread Pick: \u00a0MIchigan State +6<\/strong>
\n O\/U Pick: \u00a0Over<\/strong>
\n Score Prediction: \u00a0Minnesota 70 – Michigan State 67<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spartans vs Golden Gophers CBB Basketball Spread\/Handicapping They aren\u2019t dominating teams or the headlines but the Spartans are in good shape entering Big Ten conference play. \u00a0They have won 6 in a row including a solid victory against Texas on the weekend. \u00a0The Big Ten is really tough and winning on the road is going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":23346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1415],"tags":[6986,1477,4631,7836,2840,4210,4694,57608],"class_list":["post-58924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-cbb-free-picks","tag-cbb-picks","tag-college-basketball-odds","tag-michigan-st-spartans","tag-minnesota-golden-gophers","tag-ncaa-basketball-lines","tag-ncaa-hoops-predictions","tag-spartans-vs-golden-gophers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58924"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58983,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58924\/revisions\/58983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}