{"id":3211,"date":"2009-01-03T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/ohio-state-minnesota-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-01-03T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T15:58:00","slug":"ohio-state-minnesota-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/ohio-state-minnesota-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State-Minnesota Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Ohio State Buckeyes and the Minnesota Golden Gophers will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Williams Arena. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Golden Gophers listed as 4-point favorites versus the Buckeyes, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ohio<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> was outplayed in the second half and held on for a hard-fought 68-65 victory over Iowa<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> on Wednesday. Ohio<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> could not cover the 8-point spread, while the game’s 133 points sailed OVER the posted total of 117. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jon Diebler led Ohio<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> with a game-high 27 points, and William Buford added 16 in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> was defeated 70-58 by Michigan<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> on Wednesday, as slight 1.5-point underdogs at home. That game’s 128 points went UNDER the posted total of 141. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Al Nolen had 14 points for Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, and Lawrence Westbrook netted 11 in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Ohio<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 10-1 SU, 4-4 ATS
Minnesota: 12-1 SU, 5-3 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ohio State most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 8-2
Before playing Michigan State are 9-1
After playing Iowa are 7-3
After a win are 9-1<\/p>\n

Minnesota most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 4-6
Before playing Iowa are 5-5
After playing Michigan State are 5-5
After a loss are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Ohio State is 15-1 SU in its last 16 games
Ohio State is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Minnesota
Ohio State is 11-4 SU in its last 15 games when playing Minnesota
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Ohio State’s last 6 games on the road
Minnesota is 12-1 SU in its last 13 games
Minnesota is 10-1 SU in its last 11 games at home
Minnesota is 2-4 ATS in its last 6 games when playing at home against Ohio State
Minnesota is 4-11 SU in its last 15 games when playing Ohio State<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Ohio<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> State at Michigan<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> State, Tuesday, January 6
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at Iowa<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Thursday, January 8<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Ohio State Buckeyes and the Minnesota Golden Gophers will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Williams Arena. Oddsmakers currently have the Golden Gophers listed as 4-point favorites versus the Buckeyes, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. Ohio State was outplayed in the second … Continue reading Ohio State-Minnesota Preview<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}