Georgetown Hoyas at Rutgers Scarlet Knights Betting Odds

Opening Line: Georgetown -11 / Rutgers +11 O/U 140.5

Time: 4 PM EST Sunday February 14, 2010 on ESPN 360

Today in a Big East match up the Rutgers Scarlet Knights host the 8th ranked Georgetown Hoyas. The Hoyas are looking to move up in the rankings to get a #1 seed in the Big Dance while the Scarlet Knights look to move above .500 with a win today. The Big Dance may be a long shot to make the NCAA tournament and they will probably be NIT bound unless they can win the remainder of their games.

Rutgers is playing well as of late, as they are coming off a win and have won 3 of their last 4 games.

This season Rutgers is 11-4 at home and 8-11 ATS and Georgetown is 5-3 on the road and 11-8 ATS.

Both teams played and won on Tuesday night, as Rutgers won an out of conference game beating Caldwell 70-62 while Georgetown beat Providence 79-70.

Georgetown has won 9 straight games against Rutgers.

Rutgers has to play better than they did when they got crushed at Georgetown on January 23rd 88-63, as the Scarlet Knights allowed the Hoyas to shoot an amazing 63% from the field.

The Scarlet Knights have yet to beat a team ranked in the top 25 this season (0-5).

Georgetown has a well-balanced offense with 3 guards averaging in double figures, led by Austin Freeman (16.8 ppg), and C Greg Monroe (15.4 ppg).

The one thing that Rutgers has going for them in this game is that they have a solid frontcourt with 2 forwards averaging in double figures. Their leading scorer of G Mike Rosario (16.7 ppg) has to play well tonight on both sides of the court.

Rutgers' C Hamady Ndiaye (6.7 rpg) and the F tandem of Gregory Echenique (7.7 rpg) and Jonathan Mitchell (5.4 rpg) have to play good D on Monroe (9.5 rpg) and not allow him to score easy buckets in the paint and dominate the boards.

Rutgers will have to win this game with their defense, as their offense is not a high scoring one only averaging 67.8 ppg.

Georgetown is 5-2 ATS in their last 7 games and has an Under record if 5-2 in their last 7 road games.

Rutgers is 3-8 ATS in their last 11 games, 1-5 ATS in their last 6 home games against teams with a winning road record, and has an Under record of 11-3 in their last 14 home games.

In 5 of the last 7 meetings between these 2 teams the total has gone Under.

Our Selection : Sure the Hoyas are the superior team here and yes Georgetown has dominated this series as of late (9-1 SU) and of course we think that the Hoyas will win this game. We think that Georgetown may not be focused for this game. With a big matchup against Syracuse on the horizon, we think that the Hoyas may take the Scarlet Knights lightly. Take Rutgers +10.5