CLICK GRAB OUR BEST Expert Hoops Picks for 2014 GAMBLING season!<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\nThe last 2 undefeated team in the Big 10 in the 21st ranked Michigan Wolverines and 3rd ranked Michigan State Spartans face each other with 1st place in the conference on the line.<\/p>\n
Michigan comes into this game with a full head of steam, as they have 8 straight and their last 2 wins came against the top 10 teams of Wisconsin and Iowa.<\/p>\n
On the season Michigan State is 2-0 facing top 25 teams and Michigan is 2-2.<\/p>\n
Both teams have key players injured as Mitch McGary, who leads the Wolverines in rebounding, is out for this game and MSU\u2019s 2nd leading scorer in Adreian Payne is doubtful. Brandon Dawson is also out for the Spartans and he and Payne are combining to score over 26 ppg this season.<\/p>\n
The loss of McGary is a big one, as the Wolverines only rank 268th in the nation in rebounding.<\/p>\n
For Michigan to pull of the upset they will need to play good perimeter defense on the Spartans\u2019 backcourt duo of Gary Harris and Keith Appling. Harris is MSU\u2019s leading scorer (18.6 ppg) and Appling is averaging 15.6 ppg and leads the Spartans in assists per game.<\/p>\n
The Spartans are one of the national leaders when it comes to transition points and the Wolverines will have to get back on D and not allow MSU to get easy buckets.
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\nThe Wolverines have a solid G\/FW duo of Nik Stauskas and Glenn Robinson III and these guys have to play well tonight.<\/p>\n
The Spartans are hitting the tough part of their schedule, as 3 of their next 5 opponents are ranked.<\/p>\n
Betting Trends<\/strong><\/p>\nMichigan is 6-1-1 ATS in their last 8 games overall, 5-1-1 ATS in their last 7 games vs. a team with a winning S.U. record, and they have an Over record of 16-6-1 in their last 23 road games.<\/p>\n
Michigan State is 8-2 ATS in their last 10 games overall, 5-2 ATS in their last 7 games vs. a team with a winning S.U. record, and they have an Under record of 4-0 in their last 4 games vs. a team with a winning record.<\/p>\n
Michigan State is 5-2 ATS in their last 7 home games facing Michigan.<\/p>\n
Jason\u2019s Pick:<\/strong> Michigan State is always tough to beat at home, especially with their solid defense. However, their injuries are key ones and while Michigan may not win they will cover the 5-point spread in what I think will be a very close game.<\/p>\nPlayer Injuries<\/strong><\/p>\nMICHIGAN<\/strong>
\n[F] 12\/27\/2013 – Mitch McGary out indefinitely ( Back )<\/p>\nMICHIGAN STATE<\/strong>
\n(!)[G] 01\/24\/2014 – Branden Dawson expected to miss 4-5 weeks ( Hand )
\n(!)[C] 01\/21\/2014 – Adreian Payne doubtful Saturday vs. Michigan ( Foot )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michigan vs. MSU Betting! Michigan is 9-6-1 ATS with an O\/U record of 8-7-1 and Michigan State is 10-6-2 ATS with an O\/U record of 9-9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":65635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1415],"tags":[661,2864,7836,52634,61000,2572,17989,3521,2574,17988],"class_list":["post-71971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-michigan","tag-michigan-st","tag-michigan-st-spartans","tag-michigan-vs-michigan-st","tag-michigan-wolverine","tag-michigan-wolverines","tag-michigan-wolverines-vs-michigan-st-spartans","tag-spartans","tag-wolverines","tag-wolverines-vs-spartans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71971","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\/193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71971"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71977,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71971\/revisions\/71977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}