Weekend College Basketball Betting – Purdue, OSU Pushing for Top Seeds

The Big Ten race is just about decided and Ohio State should be the champion, but the Buckeyes, the college basketball online betting favorites for their weekend matchup with Indiana, need to finish strong in order to bring home a #1 seed.

Meanwhile, Purdue is making a run at a 2 seed or a 3 seed with their continued success in the country’s top RPI-rated conference.

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But Michigan State, the nation’s second-ranked team at the start of the year, is trying to salvage a tournament spot with a Sunday win at Breslin that would do wonders for their resume.

Who has the edge heading into Sunday’s Big Ten tilts?

#8 Purdue at Michigan State, 1 pm, Sunday, ESPN:

MSU has righted the ship for the time being but they still have a lot of issues to address.

MSU’s young big men have not played well and Draymond Green, their best big man, is too undersized to deal with JaJuan Johnson.

Johnson of the college hoops betting road squad Boilermakers is long, athletic, and versatile and he will be too much for MSU to handle.

E’Twaun Moore of Purdue will have a difficult task going up against MSU’s talented backcourt of Kalin Lucas and Durrell Summers but Summers has also been woefully inconsistent and Moore might be the best scoring guard in the Big Ten.

MSU will throw the kitchen sink at the Boilermakers but in the end, Johnson and Moore will lead Purdue to another key win in a hard-fought game.

College basketball betting pick: Purdue 70, MSU 66

Indiana at #3 Ohio State, 4 pm, Sunday, CBS:

The Hoosiers have some prestige left from their past glory days, which got them this national TV date with the Buckeyes, but IU doesn’t have enough firepower to hang with OSU.

The Buckeyes have perhaps the nation’s top freshman in Jared Sullinger who could be a top 3 pick in the draft next year and a group of wings that are way too talented and athletic for IU’s undersized, not-so-quick perimeter players.

This is a serious mismatch.

College basketball pick betting pick: OSU 76, IU 55

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