{"id":11464,"date":"2010-12-11T11:29:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T16:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11464"},"modified":"2010-12-11T11:29:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T16:29:21","slug":"washington-huskies-at-texas-am-aggies-big-12-pac-10-ncaa-basketball-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/washington-huskies-at-texas-am-aggies-big-12-pac-10-ncaa-basketball-picks-11464\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Huskies at Texas A&M Aggies Big 12-Pac 10 NCAA Basketball Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington Huskies at Texas A&M Aggies
\nSaturday, 12\/11\/10, 4:30 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Washington -2
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Washington -1
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 150
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 152<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Washington Huskies are slight road favorites in trying to snap Texas A&M's 56-game non-conference home winning streak at Reed Arena<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Washington ventures into enemy territory for the first time this season and will take on Texas A&M at Reed Arena in a nationally televised contest.\u00a0 This is the second straight year that the two teams are meting in the Big 12\/Pac-10 Hardwood Series.\u00a0 Last season\u2019s matchup in Seattle was marred by a gruesome injury to Aggies senior Derrick Roland, as the Huskies picked up a 73-64 victory.\u00a0 The Huskies lead Division I in scoring with 95.5 points per game and 3-point shooting at 47.5 percent.\u00a0 \u201cThe difference with this Washington team is that anybody can really score the ball,\u201d said Portland coach Eric Reveno.\u00a0 \u201cYou can\u2019t lie off a shooter or the post and expect to stop them.\u201d\u00a0 Washington has scored 100 points four times this season and needs to eclipse the century mark one more time to tied the all-time single season record.\u00a0 The squad is 1-4 ATS as a road favorite of three points or less and is currently in this category on the college basketball lines page.<\/p>\n

The Huskies struggled to find their footing on the road despite a 26-10 record last season, starting the year off with a 0-7 mark, including a loss in one neutral site game and six true road contests.\u00a0 Washington is currently 1-2 on neutral courts during the 2010-11 season, with both losses coming to ranked opponents in the Maui Invitational.\u00a0 The program is 3-2 all-time in this series against Big 12 opposition, including an 0-2 mark on the road, losing at Oklahoma State and Texas Tech.\u00a0 The Huskies are also 2-6 all-time in games on the home floor of opponents in the state of Texas.<\/p>\n

Texas A&M will put a 56-game non-conference home streak on the line Saturday against Washington, as it started during the 2005-06 season and includes wins over Alabama, Arizona and LSU.\u00a0 The Aggies are 88-9 all-time in non-conference games at today\u2019s venue and have five home wins this season, including an 87-63 victory over Prairie View A&M on Wednesday.\u00a0 A key factor in this contest is the rebounding ability of the Aggies, as they haven\u2019t been out-rebounded in any game this season, averaging 13.0 boards more than their opponents.\u00a0 Texas A&M is 3-0 ATS as a home underdog of three points or less.<\/p>\n

The Aggies have won 23 of their last 24 home games, including 10 of its last 11 in Big 12 play.\u00a0 Texas A&M is 36-3 at home since the start of the 2008-09 season.\u00a0 Since dropping its first game of the year on Thanksgiving Day, the team has won five straight and held opponents to 35.4 percent shooting from the floor and 25 percent from 3-point range.\u00a0 During that span, Aggie foes have averaged just over 54 points per game and been out-rebounded by a margin of 11 boards.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in the Huskies being 7-3 ATS on the road, while the Aggies are 35-16 ATS as an underdog.<\/p>\n

The college basketball handicappers at Maddux Sports are ready to kick it into high gear starting this weekend.\u00a0 Don\u2019t miss out on a single play and get a season package today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington Huskies at Texas A&M Aggies Saturday, 12\/11\/10, 4:30 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Washington -2 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Washington -1 Opening Total:\u00a0 150 Current Total:\u00a0 152 Washington ventures into enemy territory for the first time this season and will take on Texas A&M at Reed Arena in a nationally televised contest.\u00a0 This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[738,740,4117,1899,563],"class_list":["post-11464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-12","tag-pac-10","tag-reed-arena","tag-texas-am","tag-washington-huskies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11464","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=11464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11465,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11464\/revisions\/11465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}