{"id":8684,"date":"2009-02-21T01:46:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T06:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=8684"},"modified":"2023-02-07T06:44:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T14:44:13","slug":"southflorida-uconn-prediction-spread-210209","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball\/southflorida-uconn-prediction-spread-210209\/","title":{"rendered":"College Hoops Preview: Bulls vs. Huskies (Feb. 21)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Top Team in the Nation – South Florida vs. Connecticut<\/h2>\n

Game-day<\/strong>: 2\/21\/2009
\n Tip-off<\/strong>: 2:00 pm est.<\/p>\n

Another highly ranked team, the Connecticut Huskies, will try to bounce back from a terrible loss at the hands of the Pittsburgh Panthers. The Huskies not only lost the game but they lost Jerome Dyson for the season. Connecticut is still a very good team straight-up at 24 and 2, but their against the spread record in the BetUS online sportsbook<\/strong><\/a> leaves something to be desired at 10 and 10.Their record at home ATS is even worse at 2 and 7.<\/p>\n

South Florida has an 8 and 17 record straight-up. They\u2019re not going to get a bid to the NCAA Tournament but they have shown flashes of toughness this season. ATS the Bulls are 13 and 11. In away games they are 6 and 5 against the spread.<\/p>\n

Here is my personal online betting line for this game.<\/strong><\/p>\n

South Florida\t +17 \u00bd -110
\nConnecticut Huskies\t -17 \u00bd -110<\/p>\n

Here are a few online wagering trends for this game.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The South Florida Bulls are 2 and 5 against the spread in their last 7 games versus a team from the Big East.<\/a>
\nThe South Florida Bulls are 10 and 2 against the spread in their last 12 games after scoring less than 50 points in their previous game.
\nThe Connecticut Huskies are 4 and 1 against the spread in their last 5 games versus a team with a winning percentage below .400.
\nThe Connecticut Huskies are 5 and 2 against the spread in their last 7 games versus a team from the Big East.<\/p>\n

South Florida has lost two games in a row straight-up. They were pummeled by Georgetown in their last as 5 \u00bd point underdogs. A game before they were destroyed by Notre Dame as 13 \u00bd point underdogs.<\/p>\n

The last time these two teams played the Connecticut Huskies needed overtime to beat the Bulls by a single point. The Huskies were favored by only 7 points in that game.<\/p>\n

Since that game South Florida has gotten worse while Connecticut supposedly has gotten better.<\/p>\n

I see the Huskies as a huge favorite in this game, but I\u2019m not sold on them absolutely dominating the Bulls. Connecticut should get the job done, and win by at least 10 to 14 points, but I don\u2019t see them covering a spread of 17 \u00bd or higher.<\/p>\n

UConn vs. South Florida Prediction:<\/h3>\n

That\u2019s how I will play this game. If the Connecticut Huskies are -17 \u00bd or higher in the sportsbook, I will bet the South Florida Bulls. If the South Florida Bulls are at +16 \u00bd or lower in the sportsbook, then I will bet the Connecticut Huskies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The top-ranked UConn Huskies will be coming off a rare loss when they host South Florida on Saturday afternoon, to boot the Bulls are struggling at 8-17 SU but 13-11 ATS so far this year…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1415],"tags":[8053,1597,3938,10881,10882,10883,7981,10647,4205,4631,6535,9870,6530,6531,6534,4445,8060,6537,10884,10885,10886,10880,6536],"class_list":["post-8684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-2009-college-basketball-picks","tag-basketball-handicapping","tag-basketball-odds","tag-bulls-huskies-line","tag-bulls-huskies-odds","tag-bulls-huskies-spread","tag-bulls-vs-huskies","tag-butler-vs-wisc-milwaukee-free-prediction","tag-college-basketball-free-picks","tag-college-basketball-odds","tag-college-hoops-lines","tag-college-hoops-point-spreads","tag-free-college-basketball-picks","tag-free-ncaa-basketball-prediction","tag-ncaa-basketball-free-predictions","tag-ncaa-basketball-preview","tag-ncaa-hoops-prediction","tag-ncaab-preview","tag-south-florida-bulls-vs-uconn-huskies","tag-south-florida-vs-connecticut","tag-south-florida-vs-connecticut-free-prediction","tag-uconn-vs-south-florida-prediction","tag-wager-college-hoops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8684"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103700,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684\/revisions\/103700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}