Minnesota (14-12, 3-10) at Indiana (13-12, 6-7)
When: Friday, February 9th 2018
Where: Assembly Hall, Bloomington, IN
Time: 7:30 ET | TV: FS1
Opening Odds: Indiana -6
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Preseason expectations were very high in Minneapolis for the Minnesota Golden Gophers and after a 13-3 start – including wins over Providence and Alabama, it looked as if they would compete for a conference title – but, my how things have changed. The Gophers have now fallen completely out of NCAA Tournament contention with six straight losses and nine of their last 10. They will try and regroup for a positive finish to the season when they visit the Indiana Hoosiers on Friday night. Indiana ended a four-game losing streak by stomping lowly Rutgers 65-43 on Monday. The Hoosiers held the Scarlet Knights to 24.1% shooting from the floor, which is the lowest allowed by Indiana in Big Ten play in more than 21 years. They will seek a repeat defensive performance and a season series sweep with Minnesota following a 75-71 victory in Minneapolis on January 6th. Indiana has won four of the last five meetings with Minnesota and the Gophers haven’t won in Bloomington in more than six years.
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Nate Mason recorded a career-high 34 points to go along with six assists in a 91-85 loss to Nebraska on Tuesday to move into seventh place on the Gopher’s all-time scoring list. Forward Jordan Murphy contributed 22 points and 13 rebounds to record his NCAA-leading 21st double-double of the season while Isaiah Washington, who was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Week on Monday, chipped in 10 points and eight assists. Dupree McBrayer sat out the second half after suffering a leg injury while Amir Coffey missed his third straight game after re-aggravating a shoulder injury, and both players are questionable for Friday.
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Juwan Morgan led Indiana with 24 points and pulled down eight rebounds against Rutgers to finish with 20 points or more for the sixth time in conference action this season. Morgan is averaging 22.8 points and 8.2 rebounds over his last five games. Robert Johnson made three 3-pointers en route to 19 points against the Scarlet Knights to move into fourth place on Indiana’s all-time 3-point field goals list with 220. Devonte Green contributed nine points and four assists in his first Big Ten start as the Hoosiers limited Rutgers to 43 points, which equals the fewest allowed by Indiana in a conference game since January 2008 against the Iowa Hawkeyes.
I believe Minnesota still has a little bit of life left in them against an Indiana team that is really not that impressive. The underdog has been very good in this series (21-7 ATS run), and the Gophers are usually that underdog. I’ll take the points.
Pick: Minnesota +7
- Golden Gophers are 5-1 ATS in their last 6 games after allowing more than 90 points in their previous game.
- Golden Gophers are 2-5 ATS in their last 7 games following a ATS loss.
- Golden Gophers are 2-5 ATS in their last 7 road games vs. a team with a home winning % of greater than .600.
- Golden Gophers are 2-5 ATS in their last 7 road games.
- Golden Gophers are 2-5 ATS in their last 7 road games vs. a team with a winning home record.
- Golden Gophers are 2-8 ATS in their last 10 games following a straight up loss.
- Golden Gophers are 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games vs. a team with a winning straight up record.
- Golden Gophers are 1-5 ATS in their last 6 games overall.
- Golden Gophers are 1-5 ATS in their last 6 vs. Big Ten.
- Hoosiers are 4-0 ATS in their last 4 home games vs. a team with a road winning % of less than .400.
- Hoosiers are 7-0 ATS in their last 7 home games.
- Hoosiers are 4-0 ATS in their last 4 home games vs. a team with a losing road record.
- Hoosiers are 5-1 ATS in their last 6 games overall.
- Hoosiers are 5-1 ATS in their last 6 vs. Big Ten.
- Hoosiers are 6-2 ATS in their last 8 games vs. a team with a winning straight up record.
- Hoosiers are 5-2 ATS in their last 7 games following a ATS win.
- Hoosiers are 1-6 ATS in their last 7 games after allowing less than 50 points in their previous game.
- Over is 4-0 in Golden Gophers last 4 overall.
- Over is 4-0 in Golden Gophers last 4 games following a straight up loss.
- Over is 4-0 in Golden Gophers last 4 vs. Big Ten.
- Over is 5-1 in Golden Gophers last 6 games after allowing more than 90 points in their previous game.
- Over is 4-1 in Golden Gophers last 5 games following a ATS loss.
- Under is 4-1 in Golden Gophers last 5 Friday games.
- Under is 11-5 in Golden Gophers last 16 vs. a team with a winning straight up record.
- Under is 4-0 in Hoosiers last 4 home games vs. a team with a road winning % of less than .400.
- Under is 4-0 in Hoosiers last 4 home games vs. a team with a losing road record.
- Under is 4-0 in Hoosiers last 4 home games.
- Under is 5-0-1 in Hoosiers last 6 games following a ATS win.
- Under is 14-3-1 in Hoosiers last 18 overall.
- Under is 4-1-1 in Hoosiers last 6 games following a straight up win.
- Under is 4-1 in Hoosiers last 5 games following a straight up win of more than 20 points.
- Under is 12-3-1 in Hoosiers last 16 vs. Big Ten.
- Over is 5-2 in the last 7 meetings in Indiana.
- Underdog is 21-7 ATS in the last 28 meetings.
