{"id":11172,"date":"2010-12-01T23:30:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T04:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11172"},"modified":"2010-12-01T21:32:33","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T02:32:33","slug":"ncaa-basketball-ucla-bruins-at-kansas-jayhawks-betting-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-ucla-bruins-at-kansas-jayhawks-betting-predictions-11172\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball: UCLA Bruins at Kansas Jayhawks Betting Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

UCLA Bruins at Kansas Jayhawks
\nThursday, 12\/2\/10, 9:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kansas -15.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Kansas -16<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Kansas Jayhawks are outscoring opponents by +35.3 points a game and welcome in the UCLA Bruins to Allen Fieldhouse on Thursday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

UCLA opened its season with three victories and then ran into lots of trouble when heading East to play in the final rounds of the NIT Season Tip-Off at Madison Square Garden.\u00a0 The Bruins spotted both Villanova and VCU an early 8-0 lead and wasn\u2019t able to recover in both losing efforts.\u00a0 \u201cHonestly, I don\u2019t know what it is,\u201d said Bruins forward Reeves Nelson.\u00a0 \u201cWe have to do something to fix it.\u201d\u00a0 This is the 16th meeting between these two storied programs and the Bruins lead the series, 10-5.\u00a0 UCLA dropped last year\u2019s meeting at Pauley Pavilion by a score of 73-61 on December 6, 2009, as the Jayhawks were the top-ranked team in the country at the time.\u00a0 The squad is 2-0 ATS against the Big 12 Conference over the past three years and the college basketball lines page has them as a double-digit underdog.<\/p>\n

The Bruins must take care of the basketball if it has any shot of pulling off the upset in Thursday night\u2019s game, committing 21 turnovers in their last contest and averaging 16.2 through the first five games.\u00a0 UCLA does have a 19-11 record against ranked teams the last five seasons, but dropped its first such game against Villanova two games ago.\u00a0 The program has a youthful look to it and experts believe it will take head coach Ben Howland time to get things right in Westwood again.\u00a0 \u201cYou have to go through things like this to come out and succeed in the end,\u201d said point guard Lazeric Jones.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s not a sprint, it\u2019s a marathon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kansas has demonstrated it has a world of talent and is off to an impressive 6-0 start, which includes an 87-79 victory over Arizona in the Las Vegas final.\u00a0 The Jayhawks now return home to defend the nation\u2019s longest home court winning streak and school-record 63 wins in Allen Fieldhouse.\u00a0 The team leads the Big 12 in scoring at 92 points per game, scoring margin at +35.3 and field goal percentage at an unbelievable 57.8 percent mark.\u00a0 Kansas is 3-0 ATS as a home favorite of 12.5 or more points this year and 10-10 ATS in this role over the last three campaigns.<\/p>\n

The Jayhawks have won five of the last seven meetings in this series after dropping the first eight.\u00a0 Five of the 15 matchups have come in the NCAA Tournament and Kansas is winless in those contests.\u00a0 Heading into the 2010-11 season, the Big 12 holds a 20-16 advantage in all matchups against the Pac-10 in the Big 12\/Pac-10 Hardwood Series.\u00a0 Kansas is 2-1 in the series and faced Arizona the first two years.\u00a0 The program is 8-4 against Pac-10 foes in the Bill Self era.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Bruins are 9-4 ATS following a SU loss, while the Jayhawks are 4-9 ATS versus the Pac-10.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a huge season and start letting the college basketball handicappers at Maddux Sports work for you.\u00a0 There\u2019s plenty of Thursday action and its time to start heading to the winner\u2019s circle!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UCLA Bruins at Kansas Jayhawks Thursday, 12\/2\/10, 9:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kansas -15.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Kansas -16 UCLA opened its season with three victories and then ran into lots of trouble when heading East to play in the final rounds of the NIT Season Tip-Off at Madison Square Garden.\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4027,3963,738,4026,740,4028,11],"class_list":["post-11172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-allen-fieldhouse","tag-ben-howland","tag-big-12","tag-bill-self","tag-pac-10","tag-pauley-pavilion","tag-ucla-bruins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11172","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=11172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11174,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11172\/revisions\/11174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}