{"id":8305,"date":"2009-02-12T14:55:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T19:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=8305"},"modified":"2023-02-07T07:31:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T15:31:07","slug":"cbb-betting-tips-stats-120209","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/handicapping\/cbb-betting-tips-stats-120209\/","title":{"rendered":"CBB Handicapping Stats &#038; Betting Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Basketball Stat Check<\/h2>\n<p>This Sunday is the 58th annual NBA All-Star Game, so we\u2019ll be going to school for this weekend\u2019s list of the 10 tastiest basketball stats and factoids. But first, here\u2019s a goodie: The Western Conference has won all four All-Star Games played at football stadiums. Next year\u2019s venue is the new Dallas Cowboys stadium in Arlington.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Villanova at West Virginia:<\/strong>\u00a0Mountaineers opponents have hit just 26.6 percent of their 3-point shots this year. That\u2019s second in Division I; only Tulsa of Conference USA has done better (by hundredths of a percentage point) defending the perimeter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connecticut at Seton Hall:<\/strong>\u00a0Heading into Wednesday\u2019s matchup against Syracuse, Huskies center Hasheem Thabeet was eighth in the nation in blocking, swatting away 12.4 percent of opponents\u2019 2-point attempts. That number will inch upward after Thabeet\u2019s seven blocks on 42 Orange attempts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Georgetown at Syracuse:<\/strong>\u00a0The Hoyas have missed the cover in each of their last six games by an average of 12 points. Georgetown went 1-5 SU during that skid; four of those losses were upsets, to the likes of Seton Hall (+8 at home) and Cincinnati (+10.5 in Georgetown).<\/p>\n<p><strong>UCLA at Arizona:<\/strong>\u00a0UCLA is 36-17-1 ATS in its last 54 away games. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 1px; border: 1px solid #ffffff;\" title=\"Handicapping Stats &amp; Betting Tips\" 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\" \/>However, that only includes 4-4 ATS this year. The Bruins have coughed up the cash in their last three road games, losing 86-75 to Washington as a 2-point dog in their last matchup away from Pauley Pavilion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kansas at Kansas State:<\/strong>\u00a0The Jayhawks committed a season-worst 27 turnovers in Monday\u2019s 62-60 loss at Missouri (+5). That was their first Big 12 defeat of the season, dropping Kansas to 19-5 SU overall and 13-5 ATS. This is the team\u2019s Achilles\u2019 heel; the \u2018Hawks are No. 240 in Division I with a 21.9-percent turnover rate.<\/p>\n<p><span>College Basketball Betting odds in the Bodog Sportsbook.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Florida State at Wake Forest:<\/strong>\u00a0Wake Forest is the second-tallest team in the country according to effective height, a Ken Pomeroy statistic that takes minutes played into account. Yet Wake allowed 16 offensive rebounds in Wednesday\u2019s 82-76 loss at North Carolina State (+4.5). That leaves the Demon Deacons at 2-4 SU and ATS since taking the No. 1 spot in the polls.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Memphis at Southern Miss:<\/strong>\u00a0Memphis superfrosh guard Tyreke Evans has been named the Conference USA Rookie of the Week seven times this season. He effectively replaces Derrick Rose in the lineup; Evans is No. 19 in Division I with steals on 4.7 percent of opponents\u2019 possessions, a big part of the nation\u2019s No. 2-ranked team defense.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duke at Boston College:<\/strong>\u00a0Boston College is the second-youngest team in the ACC, with Virginia the youngest. The Eagles are ranked No. 304 in the nation in average experience at 1.21 years per player; they have one senior, one junior, seven sophomores and three freshmen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>North Carolina at Miami-Florida:<\/strong>\u00a0The Tar Heels are the first team in over nine years to dump 100 points on Duke, overcoming the Blue Devils 101-87 on Wednesday night with a late 14-0 run. North Carolina was ranked second overall in offensive efficiency heading into that game; Miami is No. 53 on defense.<\/p>\n<p><strong>USC at Arizona State:<\/strong>\u00a0The Sun Devils are 7-4 ATS this year after scoring fewer than 75 points in their previous game. That\u2019s a strong likelihood in Thursday\u2019s matchup with UCLA, who\u2019s only allowed 75 points once this season \u2013 in the aforementioned loss to the Huskies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday is the 58th annual NBA All-Star Game, so we\u2019ll be going to school for this weekend\u2019s list of the 10 tastiest basketball stats and factoids&#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":[10349,9190,210,10351,212,9186,9187,2066,220,8702,8425,10350,8701,9191],"class_list":["post-8305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-handicapping","tag-58th-annual-nba-all-star-game","tag-basketball-stats","tag-bodog","tag-bodog-articles","tag-bodog-life","tag-bodog-nba-odds","tag-bodog-ncaab-odds","tag-bodog-sportsbook","tag-bodoglifecom","tag-cbb-handicapping-stats","tag-college-basketball-stats","tag-nba-allstar-game","tag-nba-handicapping-stats","tag-ncaa-basketball-stats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305","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=8305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107359,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions\/107359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}