{"id":11565,"date":"2010-12-16T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11565"},"modified":"2010-12-16T12:00:31","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T17:00:31","slug":"ncaa-basketball-preview-oral-roberts-golden-eagles-at-missouri-tigers-handicapping-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-preview-oral-roberts-golden-eagles-at-missouri-tigers-handicapping-picks-11565\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Preview: Oral Roberts Golden Eagles at Missouri Tigers Handicapping Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oral Roberts Golden Eagles at Missouri Tigers
\nThursday, 12\/16\/10, 8:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Missouri -15
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Missouri -15
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 150
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 150<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Missouri Tigers are double-digit home favorites and out for revenge from a loss to Oral Roberts last season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oral Roberts is set to take on its third Big 12 foe of the season in visiting the Missouri Tigers on Thursday night.\u00a0 The Golden Eagles have already clashed with Texas Tech and Oklahoma.\u00a0 The team is coming off a disappointing 73-60 road loss to the Sooners, after holding leads of 13 and 12 points during the first half.\u00a0 Defensively, the squad allowed Oklahoma to shoot 50.9 percent from the field, the first opponent in seven games to shoot over 50 percent against them and the second all season.\u00a0 The Golden Eagles are 9-45 all-time against Associated Press ranked opponents and picked up their last such victory with a 75-66 win over No. 13 New Mexico last December 22 at Mabee Center.\u00a0 Oral Roberts is 5-4 ATS on the season and currently a double-digit underdog on the college basketball lines page.<\/p>\n

The Golden Eagles captured a shocking 60-59 home win over the Tigers last year on forward Michael Craion\u2019s layup with 0.9 seconds left on the clock.\u00a0 He has played sparingly this season due to a right foot injury that has caused him to play just 17 minutes.\u00a0 Sophomore Warren Niles has had to pick up his scoring with the team\u2019s second-leading scorer from last year sideline, averaging 14.9 points and he scored a team-high 22 points off the bench against the Sooners on Saturday.\u00a0 Kansas City native Dominque Morrison is averaging a team-best 17.3 points on the season and scored 17 points in his last trip to Mizzou Arena in 2008.<\/p>\n

Missouri continues a four-game home stand on Thursday night and has won three consecutive games, including a 70-55 win last Saturday versus Presbyterian.\u00a0 The Tigers used the entire roster in playing 12 players in the victory, but will be missing starting point guard Michael Dixon due to being suspended indefinitely on Wednesday for violating team rules.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s nice to have a chance to play a game like this because some of our guys have played a lot of minutes,\u201d said guard Marcus Denmon.\u00a0 \u201cThey give guys that normally aren\u2019t able to play as much a chance to do things and show coach that they\u2019re able to help us.\u201d\u00a0 Missouri hasn\u2019t lost at home to a team outside the Big 12 Conference since November 14, 2005.\u00a0 The squad is 1-5 ATS on the season.<\/p>\n

The Tigers have been one of the country\u2019s winningest programs the last two-plus seasons, winning 62 games over that stretch, the 11th most wins in all of college basketball since the 2008-09 campaign.\u00a0 Missouri\u2019s bench has been a key to the team\u2019s success early on this year, averaging 27.3 points, including a season-high 49 points versus LaSalle.\u00a0 The offense has also started to show signs of coming together, shooting 49.4 percent from the floor over the last five games, while the club features five players averaging in double figures.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Golden Eagles are 4-1 ATS on the road versus winning home teams, while the Tigers are 1-6 ATS in non-conference games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oral Roberts Golden Eagles at Missouri Tigers Thursday, 12\/16\/10, 8:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Missouri -15 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Missouri -15 Opening Total:\u00a0 150 Current Total:\u00a0 150 Oral Roberts is set to take on its third Big 12 foe of the season in visiting the Missouri Tigers on Thursday night.\u00a0 The Golden […]<\/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":[3267,4155,4156,433,4073,4153,4154],"class_list":["post-11565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-12-conference","tag-michael-craion","tag-michael-dixon","tag-missouri-tigers","tag-mizzou-arena","tag-oral-roberts-golden-eagles","tag-warren-niles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11565","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=11565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11566,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11565\/revisions\/11566"}],"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=11565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}