{"id":7234,"date":"2009-01-15T16:03:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T21:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=7234"},"modified":"2023-02-07T07:27:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T15:27:59","slug":"nfl-nba-cbb-betting-tips-stats-150901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/handicapping\/nfl-nba-cbb-betting-tips-stats-150901\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL | NBA | CBB Handicapping Stats &#038; Betting Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Sports Stat Check &#8211; January 15th Edition<\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019re all agog over this week\u2019s <strong>NFL Conference title  games<\/strong>, and the <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Super Bowl<\/span><\/strong> after that. Which makes this a great time to get a jump on the basketball  betting market. We kick off this weekend\u2019s list of 10 stats and factoids with  this hoops curiosity: The inventor of basketball, James Naismith, was also the  only losing head coach in Kansas Jayhawks history. Naismith finished in 1907  with a record of 55-60. \u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>NFL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Philadelphia at Arizona<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the Eagles played the Cardinals in Week 13, Brian Westbrook became the  first man since Colts RB Lydell Mitchell in 1975 to rush for over 100 yards and  two touchdowns while catching another two TD passes. Westbrook (knee) is listed  as questionable this Sunday but is expected to play.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Baltimore at Pittsburgh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The over is 38-16-2 in Pittsburgh\u2019s last 56 games at Heinz Field. That  includes the last four Steelers-Ravens matchups in the Iron City, most recently  in Week 4 when Pittsburgh (-6) won 23-20 in overtime to eclipse the posted total  of 34.5 points.<\/p>\n<h3>Click here &#8211; Grab your NFL odds in the Bodog  Sportsbook.<\/h3>\n<p><strong>NBA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Boston at New Jersey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New Jersey is 18-38-2 ATS in its last 58 games against teams with winning  percentages higher than .600. Boston was 31-9 SU (.775 percent) and 20-20 ATS  after beating the Nets 118-86 on Wednesday at the Garden, cashing in as a  9.5-point chalk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Philadelphia at N.Y. Knicks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Knicks only have three regular players above the indexed league average  of 15 in Player Efficiency Rating: David Lee (18.3), Nate Robinson (16.8) and Al  Harrington (15.4). They\u2019re 8-17 SU and 14-11 ATS since trading away Zach  Randolph (19.9 PER with the Knicks) and Jamal Crawford (15.9 PER).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phoenix at Toronto<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Raptors only have six players on the roster who went to major conference  colleges in the United States. Only one of them is not a role player: Georgia  Tech\u2019s Chris Bosh. Phoenix has nine players from the major conferences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Miami at Oklahoma City<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Thunder are 6-21 SU and 21-6 ATS since Scott Brooks took over as interim  head coach from P.J. Carlesimo. Brooks was a star point guard at UC-Irvine and  played 680 games in the NBA, but only started seven times.<\/p>\n<h3>NBA betting in the Bodog  Sportsbook.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bodogaffiliate.com\/resources\/banners\/sportsbook\/square\/250x250\/250x250a-sportsbook.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sports Betting at the Sportsbook\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>NCAAB<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Georgetown at Duke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Duke has the highest pythagorean winning percentage of all Division I teams  at 98.31 percent. Georgetown is No. 8 (and fourth in the Big East) at 96.65  percent. The Hoyas have three losses this year to Duke\u2019s one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wake Forest at Clemson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wake\u2019s 14-0 record (6-4 ATS) represents the team\u2019s best start since the  1980-81 season. That team featured point guard Frank Johnson, who was drafted by  the Washington Bullets that year and went on to play 650 games \u2013 and coach the  Phoenix Suns for two years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arizona State at UCLA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Sun Devils lead Division I in effective field-goal percentage (60.5  percent) and 2-point field-goal percentage (60.9 percent). The Bruins defense is  ranked just No. 186 in the nation against 2-point shots at 48.5 percent  allowed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pittsburgh at Louisville<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Undefeated Pitt is No. 1 in the rankings for the first time in team history \u2013  a history that dates back to 1905. The Panthers did win the national  championship in 1928 and 1930 under Doc Carlson, but they haven\u2019t been to the  Elite Eight since 1974.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bodog takes a look at the latest stats for football and basketball games; January 15th edition&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[551],"tags":[4705,2066,8702,8425,4709,6581,8701,5225,8700,4706,4707,830,4703,947,6580],"class_list":["post-7234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-handicapping","tag-bodog-online-sportsbooks","tag-bodog-sportsbook","tag-cbb-handicapping-stats","tag-college-basketball-stats","tag-college-football-stats","tag-football-stats-online","tag-nba-handicapping-stats","tag-nba-stats","tag-nfl-championship-stats","tag-nfl-football-stats","tag-nfl-football-team-stats","tag-nfl-handicapping","tag-nfl-stats","tag-online-sportsbook","tag-pro-college-football-handicapping-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7234"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106847,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234\/revisions\/106847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}