Michigan Wolverines vs. Purdue Boilermakers
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The Michigan Wolverines (10-8, 7-7 ATS) will look to put together a major NCAA Tournament resume-boosting effort on the road on Saturday when they pay a visit to the Purdue Boilermakers (15-3, 8-9-1 ATS) in Big Ten betting action. Even though Big Blue covered its fifth spread in its L/6 games at the Kohl Center on Wednesday night, its 54-48 loss to Wisconsin dropped it to just 3-3 SU in conference play. Purdue erased the memories of a three-game skid in Champagne on Tuesday with an 84-78 win against the Illini.

Defense is the name of the game for the Wolverines. They are content to slow you down and try to limit possessions. Opposing teams are shooting 42.8% from the floor against Michigan, but they are only scoring 62.0 points per game. Since December 19th, the Wolverines have only allowed one team to score more than 70 points against them (Indiana). On the offensive side of the court, keep an eye on G Manny Harris, who not only leads the team in scoring (19.2 points per game), but assists as well (4.3 per game). Michigan has one major problem, and that’s its three-point shooting. Only one player is shooting better than 40% from beyond the arc, and as a team, it is only connecting on 29.7% of its long range attempts.

Purdue isn’t a significantly better three-point shooting team, as it is only shooting 30.4% from downtown on the season as a team, but the Boilermakers are far more set up to control a game in the post than Michigan is. Their three leading scorers are all juniors that have played together for three seasons, and they’re largely accepted as one of the most dangerous triumvirates in the college basketball betting world. G E’Twaun Moore is averaging 17.4 points per game. Fs Robbie Hummel and JaJuan Johnson can both take over a game in the post, as they are both averaging right around seven boards per night.

The home team has been dominating in this series of late, winning nine of the L/10 clashes between these squads. The Boilermakers are 8-3 ATS in their L/11 cracks at the Wolverines, but Michigan won the most recent meeting in Ann Arbor 87-78.

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