{"id":11627,"date":"2010-12-17T21:56:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T02:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11627"},"modified":"2010-12-17T21:56:34","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T02:56:34","slug":"college-basketball-usc-trojans-vs-kansas-jayhawks-betting-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-usc-trojans-vs-kansas-jayhawks-betting-predictions-11627\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball: USC Trojans vs Kansas Jayhawks Betting Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

USC Trojans at Kansas Jayhawks
\nSaturday, 12\/18\/10, 12:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kansas -16
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Kansas -17.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 135
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 135<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Kansas Jayhawks are double-digit home favorites against the USC Trojans at Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

USC is set to play at No. 3 Kansas at Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday afternoon in front of a national audience.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re getting better as a team and with what\u2019s coming up, we better be better,\u201d said head coach Kevin O\u2019Neill.\u00a0 This will be the first meeting between these programs since the Jayhawks\u2019 59-55 win on December 2, 2007.\u00a0 The Trojans are 5-9 all-time against the Jayhawks and have lost five straight in the series since a 89-83 win in 1978.\u00a0 The team picked up a 60-52 home win over Northern Arizona in its last contest a week ago, with senior guard Donte Smith scoring a career-high 22 points.\u00a0 USC is 5-4 ATS on the season and is currently a double-digit underdog on the college basketball lines page.<\/p>\n

The Trojans have lost their two true road games this season and are 4-19 in such contests since the 2008-09 campaign.\u00a0 USC will need to have a balanced scoring attack in possibly pulling off a major upset in this contest, which means center Nikola Vucevic will need to regain the form he had when scoring a career-best 24 points in a 73-56 win over then-19th-ranked Texas.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re going to be an inside team first,\u201d O\u2019Neill commented.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s where our two most experience players are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kansas returns home after a two-game hiatus on the road and will look to improve upon its perfect 9-0 record to start the season.\u00a0 The Jayhawks are a young and talented squad that is constantly testing head coach Bill Self\u2019s ability to adapt.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve got a team of guys that can lose focus for four or five plays,\u201d he commented.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re not committed to seeing it through or carrying out assignments, and that\u2019s up to me as a coach.\u201d\u00a0 The team leads the Big 12 in scoring at 87.3 points a game that leads to its incredible plus-27.4 scoring margin over opponents.\u00a0 Kansas is 3-1 ATS as a home favorite of 12.5 or more points this season.<\/p>\n

The Jayhawks are excited for the long-awaited debut of Josh Selby, who was suspended for the team\u2019s first nine games by the NCAA for allegations tied to accepting Impermissible benefits.\u00a0 He was the nation\u2019s top recruit coming into the year and the most heralded freshman to come on campus since Danny Manning.\u00a0 \u201cHe thinks he\u2019s the baddest boy out here every day regardless of who is out there with him,\u201d Self stated.\u00a0 He\u2019s expected to join a bench that averages 31.3 points a game compared to its opponents\u2019 20.1 a contest.<\/p>\n

Bettors will have a interest in the Trojans 4-1 ATS mark versus the Big 12, while the Jayhawks are 1-4 ATS against Pac-10 opponents.<\/p>\n

The college basketball handicappers at Maddux Sports are ready to fire away at a major card this Saturday and can\u2019t wait for you to be a part of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

USC Trojans at Kansas Jayhawks Saturday, 12\/18\/10, 12:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kansas -16 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Kansas -17.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 135 Current Total:\u00a0 135 USC is set to play at No. 3 Kansas at Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday afternoon in front of a national audience.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re getting better as a team […]<\/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":[4027,738,4026,4180,4182,34,4181,740,472],"class_list":["post-11627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-allen-fieldhouse","tag-big-12","tag-bill-self","tag-donte-smith","tag-josh-selby","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-kevin-oneill","tag-pac-10","tag-usc-trojans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11627","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=11627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11628,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11627\/revisions\/11628"}],"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=11627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}