{"id":11113,"date":"2010-11-30T14:31:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T19:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11113"},"modified":"2010-11-30T14:31:16","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T19:31:16","slug":"georgetown-hoyas-vs-missouri-tigers-ncaa-basketball-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/georgetown-hoyas-vs-missouri-tigers-ncaa-basketball-predictions-11113\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgetown Hoyas vs Missouri Tigers NCAA Basketball Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Georgetown Hoyas vs Missouri Tigers
\nTuesday, 11\/30\/10, 9:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Georgetown -1.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Georgetown -1
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 144
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 144.5
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Georgetown -120 \/ Missouri Even<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Georgetown Hoyas guard Austin Freeman scored 32 points in his last game and will look to capture a neutral floor win over the Missouri Tigers on Tuesday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Georgetown heads to Kansas City, Missouri and the Sprint Center to face the Missouri Tigers on a neutral floor.\u00a0 The Hoyas followed a 62-59 win against Old Dominion with five victories over mid-major opponents by an average of 16 points.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re a work in progress,\u201d said coach John Thompson III.\u00a0 \u201cThere is a lot of room for growth in that locker room.\u201d\u00a0 Tonight\u2019s game is the second all-time meeting between Georgetown and Missouri, with the Hoyas posting a 63-51 win over the Tigers during the 1981-82 season.\u00a0 The team is averaging 73.4 points per game while giving up just 59.8 a contest, which gives them a +13.6 edge in scoring margin this season.\u00a0 Georgetown is 4-1 ATS on the season and the college basketball lines page has them listed as a slight favorite.<\/p>\n

The Hoyas have been a sharp-shooting team under Thompson and the 2010-11 season is no different, hitting 49.7 percent of their shots from the field through six games.\u00a0 Georgetown finished fourth in the nation in that category by hitting 49.9 percent of its shots last year.\u00a0 The team is led by senior guard Austin Freeman, who has 90 career starts in 102 games played.\u00a0 He was named the Big East preseason player of the year and scored 32 points in the 87-72 win in the team\u2019s last game over UNC-Asheville.\u00a0 Tonight\u2019s game is the seventh all-time contest against a Big 12 opponent, posting a 4-1 all-time mark in the previous games.<\/p>\n

Missouri will be looking to move to 6-0 under head coach Mike Anderson for the second time during his tenure in Columbia, as the Tigers started 9-0 in 2006-07.\u00a0 The Tigers early success this year can be attributed to forcing 22.8 turnovers per game, which is the second-most in the nation.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that the program has won its last 12 non-conference matchups, while the Hoyas have won 16 of their last 17 such games.\u00a0 Missouri has been one of the winning programs in the nation the past two-plus seasons, winning 59 games over that stretch, which is the 11th most wins in all of college basketball since 2008-09.\u00a0 The team is 1-2 ATS versus Big East opponents the last three years.<\/p>\n

The bench continues to be a strength this season for the Tigers, with the unit averaging 33.6 points per game, highlighted by a season-high 49 points versus LaSalle.\u00a0 Missouri has been excellent in November under Anderson\u2019s direction, posting a 27-4 record in the opening month since the 2006-07 season.\u00a0 The team is often hard to prepare for due to the balance in the program, as nine different players score nine or more points in a game this year and six of those have reached double figures.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in playing the Hoyas due to their 9-1 ATS mark in neutral site games, while the Tigers are 1-4 ATS versus the Big East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Georgetown Hoyas vs Missouri Tigers Tuesday, 11\/30\/10, 9:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Georgetown -1.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Georgetown -1 Opening Total:\u00a0 144 Current Total:\u00a0 144.5 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Georgetown -120 \/ Missouri Even Georgetown heads to Kansas City, Missouri and the Sprint Center to face the Missouri Tigers on a neutral floor.\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4009,738,559,1341,4008,4010,433,3959],"class_list":["post-11113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-austin-freeman","tag-big-12","tag-big-east","tag-georgetown-hoyas","tag-john-thompson-iii","tag-mike-anderson","tag-missouri-tigers","tag-sprint-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11114,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11113\/revisions\/11114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}