Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
The Northwestern Wildcats (12-5) have done a solid job this season, but there are a few reasons to believe that they won’t be able to match up well against the Wisconsin Badgers (14-5) on Tuesday night.
Northwestern likes to keep a quick pace going to be at their best, and they are going up against a Wisconsin squad that loves to slow it down while allowing just 48.5 points scored against them per game this season.
Whoever is able to dictate the pace will have a nice edge here, and it appears that the college basketball odds makers believe that the Badgers will be the team to do so.
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Wisconsin is currently a 10-point home favorite for this 9:00 PM ET clash, but they have surprisingly been bet down from an opener of -11.5 despite wager-tracking websites showing that they are getting over half of the tracked money.
The total started off at 114 but has been bet as high as 117.5 with some early bettors apparently believing that Northwestern will be able to somewhat implement their quicker style.
The Badgers were 78-63 winners the last time these two teams met up, and Wisconsin has won 9 of the last 10 head-to-head meetings.
The lone win for Northwestern during that span was a 66-63 home win as 1-point favorites against the Badgers back in 2009, but it has been Wisconsin that has covered the odds in 5 of the last 7 matchups.
The over has been a winner in 4 of the last 6 games played between these schools.
Northwestern has lost 4 of their last 6 games and is just 1-3 in true road games this season, while Wisconsin comes into Tuesday’s matchup with 2 straight wins to break up a 3-game losing streak.
The Badgers have covered the odds just once over those 5 games, while the over has hit in 3.
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