NCAA Hoops Vegas Betting Odds: Michigan State Host Wisconsin
Thursday, February 16, 2012
by Bovada Sportsbook
The game of the night Thursday in college basketball is easily in East Lansing when No. 8 Michigan State Spartans hosts No. 17 Wisconsin Badgers in a crucial Big Ten matchup. The Spartans opened as 6-point favorites on Bovada Sportsbook’s NCAA Hoops Vegas Betting Odds.
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Wisconsin enters fourth in the Big Ten, a game-and-a-half behind conference leader Ohio State. The Badgers (19-6, 8-4) haven’t been playing much of late. They bounce back from a 58-52 home loss to the Buckeyes on Feb. 4 with a 68-61 overtime win at Minnesota last Thursday. Star Jordan Taylor led the way for UW with 27 points and the Badgers managed to win despite failing to score over the last 7½-plus minutes of the second half while the Gophers dug out of a 13-point hole.
Michigan State (20-5, 9-3) got one its biggest true road wins in a few years last Saturday, upsetting Ohio State 58-48 to end the Buckeyes’ 39-game home winning streak. Draymond Green had 12 points and nine boards and MSU played withering, physical defense as Ohio State hit just 26 percent of its shots from the field (14 of 53). That was OSU’s worst field goal percentage at home in the last 15 seasons and the third-worst in any game over the last 15 seasons.
MSU and Wisconsin met on Jan. 30 in Madison, a 63-60 overtime Spartans win. Wisconsin’s Ryan Evans hit a shot at the overtime buzzer to apparently tie the game again, but it was disallowed after officials looked at a replay and ruled that it left his hand after time expired. Green had 18 points and 14 rebounds to lead Sparty, while Taylor had 28 points to lead Wisconsin.
This game features the top two defenses in the Big Ten, so the Bovada total is a low 110. MSU is holding teams to a 37.4 field-goal percentage, the lowest total of the Tom Izzo era. UW ranks second in the NCAA in FG defense (36.8%) and leads the nation in 3-point FG defense (26.7).
Sparty is 15-0 at Breslin Center this season and has won 16 straight home games. The Spartans are 5-3 vs. ranked teams this year. The Badgers have won four straight road Big Ten games, their longest streak since winning six in a row in their Big Ten championship season of 2007-08. But Wisconsin hasn’t won in East Lansing since 2004, a string of six straight losses.
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