{"id":11328,"date":"2010-12-07T22:24:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T03:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11328"},"modified":"2010-12-07T22:24:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T03:24:36","slug":"ncaa-basketball-vanderbilt-commodores-at-missouri-tigers-handicapping-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-vanderbilt-commodores-at-missouri-tigers-handicapping-picks-11328\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball: Vanderbilt Commodores at Missouri Tigers Handicapping Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vanderbilt Commodores at Missouri Tigers
\nWednesday, 12\/8\/10, 9:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Missouri -4.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Missouri -4
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 152.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 153.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Missouri Tigers are 43-0 against non-league opponents at home in the Mike Anderson era<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vanderbilt slipped by with a 85-76 win over crosstown rival Belmont on Saturday in the team\u2019s first road game of the season and now the level of competition rises with a trip to Missouri.\u00a0 The Commodores actually trailed by seven points in the first half and the squad needed every bit of Festus Ezeli\u2019s career-high 24 points to pick up the victory.\u00a0 \u201cEzeli is all-in, with his attitude, his personality,\u201d said coach Kevin Stallings.\u00a0 \u201cWhen he got here, it was the first organized team he\u2019d ever been on.\u00a0 It\u2019s to his credit that he\u2019s become what he\u2019s become.\u201d\u00a0 With its last win, Vanderbilt ran its winning streak to five games and captured its 700th win in Memorial Gym.\u00a0 The team is 2-0 ATS as an underdog this year and is currently getting points on the college basketball lines page.<\/p>\n

The Commodores lead the all-time series with the Tigers, 3-1, with their only loss coming in the last meeting in Columbia during the 1958-59 campaign.\u00a0 Wednesday night\u2019s contest marks the second against a ranked opponent this season, as the team knocked off a top 10 team earlier this year, capturing a victory over North Carolina in the Puerto Rico Tip-Off.\u00a0 Vanderbilt is 82-101 in games against teams in the AP Top 25 all-time, including a 27-47 mark in the Stallings\u2019 era.\u00a0 The program is also 39-20 in games against current members of the Big 12 and picked up a 59-49 victory over Nebraska earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Missouri begins a four-game home stand on Wednesday and is coming off an exciting 83-80 road win over Oregon last week.\u00a0 The Tigers nearly blew a 20-point halftime lead against the Ducks, which has many experts believing that the 7,300 miles of travel the team did early on this season caught up with them in the second half.\u00a0 Before its contest in Eugene, Oregon, the team played in Mexico, Kansas City and St. Louis.\u00a0 Despite all the traveling, head coach Mike Anderson\u2019s club is 6-1 to open the year and is shooting 55.4 percent from the floor in the early going.\u00a0 Missouri is 30-19 ATS as a favorite over the last three seasons.<\/p>\n

The Tigers have absolutely dominated non-league opponents during the Anderson era in Mizzou Arena, posting a 43-0 record and averaging a 26.2 points per game margin of victory.\u00a0 Some of those victories have come against the likes of Arkansas, California, Davidson and Mississippi State.\u00a0 A key contributor to the team\u2019s success at home and everywhere else is the bench, averaging 30.5 points per game this season.\u00a0 Missouri has actually been led in scoring by a reserve three separate times.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in the Commodores 4-1 ATS mark on the road, while the Tigers are 11-5 ATS after suffering a spread loss.<\/p>\n

The college basketball handicappers at Maddux Sports are off to an exciting start and ready for you to join them today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vanderbilt Commodores at Missouri Tigers Wednesday, 12\/8\/10, 9:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Missouri -4.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Missouri -4 Opening Total:\u00a0 152.5 Current Total:\u00a0 153.5 Vanderbilt slipped by with a 85-76 win over crosstown rival Belmont on Saturday in the team\u2019s first road game of the season and now the level of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[738,4072,4010,433,4073,456],"class_list":["post-11328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-12","tag-kevin-stallings","tag-mike-anderson","tag-missouri-tigers","tag-mizzou-arena","tag-vanderbilt-commodores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11328","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=11328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11330,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11328\/revisions\/11330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}