NCAA Basketball Odds: Georgetown for Big Upset at No. 2 Syracuse
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
by Bovada Sportsbook
It’s a stellar Wednesday night in college basketball action with three games featuring two teams ranked in the Top 11 of the nation and the action starts when No. 11 Georgetown Hoyas visits No. 2 Syracuse Orange in a Big East matchup, with the Orange opening as 11.5-point favorites on Bovada Sportsbook’s NCAA basketball odds.
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Georgetown (18-4, 8-3) has been one of the pleasant surprises in the nation this year and is two games behind the Orange in the Big East. The Hoyas enter off easy back-to-back wins over Connecticut and South Florida. On Saturday, Henry Sims had 13 points to lead five players in double figures, and Georgetown shot 65 percent in the second half in a 75-45 win over the Bulls. USF scored only five points in the first 15 minutes.
Facing a ranked team will be nothing new as GU has played five of them so far this season, winning four – the lone loss was in Hawaii to Kansas at the start of the season. Georgetown is one of only five teams nationally with at least four wins over Top-25 teams.
Syracuse (23-1, 10-1) has probably the deepest team in the nation and has won three in a row since its lone loss, coming at Notre Dame. On Saturday the Orange had no trouble with St. John’s, 95-70. Starting center Fab Melo scored a career-high 14 points in his first action after a three-game absence due to academic issues (including that loss to the Irish) and coach Jim Boeheim tied Dean Smith for third place on the victory list with win No. 879. Boeheim trails only fellow Hall of Famers Mike Krzyzewski (919) and Bob Knight (902) on the career wins list.
This will be only the third game vs. a ranked team so far for SU, which beat Florida and Marquette both at the Carrier Dome. SU officials are expecting their first weeknight crowd in excess of 30,000 in 22 years for this one. It’s possible that Wednesday could mark the last time that Syracuse and Georgetown will meet as Big East Conference foes at the dome with SU off to the ACC at some point.
Georgetown has had Syracuse’s number a bit. The Hoyas have won two of the last three meetings, including a 64-56 win at the Carrier Dome last season. Georgetown is 11-30 all-time at Syracuse. The road team has covered the past four meetings in this series.
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