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Published: February 9, 2010
The Purdue Boilermakers will hit the road to do battle with the Michigan St Spartans in a Big Ten college basketball game on Tuesday night. Tip off time at Michigan St is scheduled for 9PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by ESPN.
The LVSC college basketball odds makers have set the opening point spread in this contest and the Michigan St Spartans were opened as a 2 ½ point favorite with the over under coming in at 139.
The early money from the college basketball public has come in on the road underdog Purdue Boilermakers, as the Michigan St Spartans are currently a 2-point favorite. The total has seen early movement in the betting towards the under, as the over under is currently lined at 138 ½ for the bettors to play into.
Money line players can make a play on the favored Michigan St Spartans at –135 with the road underdog Purdue Boilermakers bringing back +125 odds to win this game without the need for getting the points.
Purdue and Michigan St are making their first meeting of the regular season. The teams met twice last season with both teams winning by double digits and covering the spread on their home game. Purdue played outstanding defense in both games allowing Michigan St to hit no better than 35% in any one of the two meetings. In the Spartans 62-51 home victory they dominated the glass by out rebounding the Boilermakers by a margin of 50-32.
The Boilermakers sit at 19-3 on the season and 4-2 on the highway. They are winners of 5 straight games. Purdue is coming off a 78-75 close victory at Indiana this past Thursday. Indiana was hot from the three point line in defeat as the Hoosiers hit on 50% from beyond the arc. Purdue has two road losses in Big Ten play dropping a 72-64 decision at Northwestern and 73-66 at Wisconsin. Junior forward Robbie Hummel is coming off a 21 point effort on 6 of 12 shooting against Indiana. Prior to that he was 9 of 17 from the field in the Boilermakers 66-46 home win against Penn St.
Michigan St has been a solid home team sitting with a perfect 13-0 in front of the home folks. Michigan St returns home off two straight road losses. The Spartans were pounded at Wisconsin 67-49 last Tuesday and then were defeated 78-73 at Illinois on Saturday night. The Spartans have played very good defense in conference allowing just 41% shooting against Big Ten opponents. But that all came to a halt in those back to back losses as the Spartans allowed Wisconsin to hit on over 50% of their shots and Illinois 52.5% from the field. Junior guard Kalin Lucas missed the Illinois game due to injury and is questionable for this contest.
Trend: The Under is 15-4 in their past 19 meetings
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