NCAA Betting Odds: St. Johns Red Storm and Seton Hall Pirates
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
by Mike Stewart
Seton Hall Pirates relies on a pair of seniors for the bulk of its offense. St Johns Red Storm starts five freshmen. The Pirates have used that senior leadership to pull out of a six-game losing streak and post back-to-back victories, pulling themselves back onto the NCAA Tournament bubble.
The Red Storm are enduring some typical youthful growing pains and sit at the bottom of the Big East in several offensive categories, including 3-point percentage.
Seton Hall ranks second in the conference at defending the 3-pointer and has taken three of the last four in the series.
- St Johns Red Storm @ Seton Hall Pirates
When: 7:00 PM ET, Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Where: Prudential Center, Newark, New Jersey
TV: ET, SNY, ESPN Full Court, Big East Network, ESPN3
The Pirates have opened as 9-point favorites on SBG Global Sportsbook’s Live NCAA Basketball Odds.
St Johns Red Storm (10-15): The Red Storm have only seven scholarship players and use a six-man rotation, with all six of the players being in their first season with the team. The lone returning scholarship player from last season, Malik Stith, left the team last week. The freshmen have had periods of strong play but are lacking on the defensive end, where they have surrendered an average of 81.2 points over the last five games. St. John’s struggles on the perimeter both defensively and offensively. D’Angelo Harrison (37.4 percent) is the only player shooting better than 26.6 percent from beyond the arc.
Seton Hall Pirates (17-8): The Pirates are led by seniors Jordan Theodore and Herb Pope. Their recent slide can be traced almost directly to those two going into a slump. Theodore shot 27.4 percent during the skid while Pope averaged 10.6 points - down from his season average of 15.9 - and missed the loss to Connecticut. Pope has recorded a double-double in each of the last two games while Theodore has put up 19.5 points and 6.0 assists. Theodore and Fuquan Edwin, who leads the NCAA in steals, anchor the perimeter defense.
1. Edwin scored a then-career high 19 points in an 84-70 home win over St. John’s last season.
2. The Red Storm lead the all-time series, 54-33.
3. St. John’s is 2-3 with its “Fresh Five” starting lineup.
NCAA BASKETBALL PREDICTION: Pirates 76, Red Storm 57.
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