Saturday College Basketball Odds
(The Spread) – No shortage of games involving top-25 teams are on the docket Saturday as 21 ranked teams are involved in 17 different games. Continue reading for opening odds, spreads and totals for January 22, 2011 in the NCAA.
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One of the better games on the schedule starts at 12PM EST as seventh-ranked Villanova (16-2) plays at Syracuse (18-1). The Orangemen are coming off their first loss of the season, a 74-66 defeat at Pittsburgh.
Oddsmakers and online sports book Sportsbook.com have made Syracuse a -5 point favorite.
According to the latest trends, Villanova is 2-1 against the spread versus Syracuse over the past three seasons. Syracuse is a perfect 13-0 at home, while the Wildcats are 4-1 on the road.
Two of the other top 10 teams in the country and Big 12 Conference rivals at that will do battle as Kansas hosts Texas at Phog Allen Fieldhouse. The game will tip off at 4:00PM EST.
Second-ranked Kansas has not yet been dented this season as it is a perfect 18-0 including 3-0 within the Big 12 Conference. Texas has suffered a few losses as it is 15-3, but the Longhorns are also 3-0 in the conference.
The Jayhawks had a few recent scares with an overtime win at Michigan as well as close wins against Nebraska and Iowa State, but they played their most complete game over the past couple of weeks in an 85-65 victory Monday at Baylor. Texas, on the other hand, has blown out almost all of its recent opponents with the only exception being a one-point overtime loss to Connecticut. The Longhorns dominated in-state rival Texas A & M 81-60 on Wednesday.
Jordan Hamilton leads Texas at 19.7 points per game and carried the Longhorns by scoring 27 in the win Wednesday. Kansas’ Marcus Morris is putting in 17.3 points per game and had 25 in the blowout of Baylor.
No. 1 Ohio State is on the road at Illinois at 12:00PM EST. The Buckeyes are a -2.5 point favorite. Duke is at Wake Forest at 4:00PM EST and is a -22.5 point favorite.
For a complete list of opening odds for all the top-25 games in college basketball on Saturday, see below.
529 Ohio State -2.5
530 Illinois +2.5
531 Villanova +5
532 Syracuse -5
547 St. Mary’s +5.5
548 Vanderbilt -5.5
549 Kansas State +5
550 Texas A & M -5
585 Cincinnati +2.5
586 St. John’s -2.5
591 Pittsburgh -16.5
592 DePaul +16.5
593 Duke -22.5
594 Wake Forest +22.5
597 Texas +7
598 Kansas -7
603 Arizona State +19
604 Washington -19
609 Louisville -5.5
610 Providence 610
615 Kentucky -7.5
616 South Carolina +7.5
631 Marquette +3
632 Notre Dame -3
637 Minnesota +1.5
638 Michigan -1.5
669 Iowa State +9
670 Missouri -9
671 Brigham Young -6.5
672 Colorado State +6.5
673 Michigan State +6
674 Purdue -6
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