{"id":11784,"date":"2010-12-22T14:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T19:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11784"},"modified":"2010-12-22T09:15:17","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T14:15:17","slug":"kansas-jayhawks-at-california-golden-bears-big-12-pac-10-ncaa-basketball-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/kansas-jayhawks-at-california-golden-bears-big-12-pac-10-ncaa-basketball-predictions-11784\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Jayhawks at California Golden Bears Big 12-Pac 10 NCAA Basketball Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kansas Jayhawks at California Golden Bears
\nWednesday, 12\/22\/10, 11:00 PM EDT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kansas -11.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Kansas -12
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 137
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 137.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Kansas Jayhawks are double-digit road favorites in traveling to Haas Pavilion to take on the California Golden Bears<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kansas is set to play its first true road game of the 2010-11 season when it travels to California on December 22.\u00a0 The Jayhawks bring in a perfect 10-0 record, including a 4-0 mark in neutral site games.\u00a0 The team will also be playing its second game with star freshman Josh Selby in the lineup, who finished with a game-high 21 points in a 70-68 victory against USC on Saturday.\u00a0 \u201cI wasn\u2019t really worried about my individual statistics,\u201d said Selby.\u00a0 \u201cI was focused on the team.\u201d\u00a0 Kansas has already traveled to Las Vegas and New York, but this will be its first game on an opponent\u2019s home floor.\u00a0 It will also be the program\u2019s first visit to Berkeley since 1956.\u00a0 The team is 0-3 ATS versus Pac-10 opponents this year and 2-5 ATS the past three seasons .<\/p>\n

The Jayhawks lead the Big 12 in scoring margin this season (+24.9), field goal percentage (54.2), three-point field goal percentage (40.4) and assist-to-turnover ratio (1.4).\u00a0 Kansas leads the overall series with California, 15-3, and has won the last nine meetings, including an 84-69 win inside Allen Fieldhouse a year ago.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that three of team\u2019s last five victories have been decided by eight or less points and after shooting 50 percent or better in the first eight games, the percentage has dropped to 42.6 the last two times out.<\/p>\n

California will need to be much better than its 51-41 win over Cal Poly on Saturday to remain competitive against the likes of tonight\u2019s opponent.\u00a0 The Golden Bears shot 38.6 percent from the field and was held to 57 points or fewer for the fifth time in eight games.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve just got to gain some confidence in ourselves in terms of what\u2019s a good shot and what\u2019s not,\u201d coach Mike Montgomery stated.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s going to be an ongoing process.\u201d\u00a0 To overcome its scoring troubles, the team has prided itself on defense, holding opposing offenses to shooting 39.6 percent from the floor.\u00a0 California is 4-6 ATS on the season and currently a double-digit home underdog.<\/p>\n

The Golden Bears are 4-2 inside Haas Pavilion during the early stages of the 2010-11 campaign, winning 42 of its last 46 non-conference home games.\u00a0 Under Montgomery, Cal boasts an impressive 35-5 mark on its home court.\u00a0 Guard Jorge Gutierrez will need to play his best game of the year if the team has any hopes of pulling off an upset, as he\u2019s reached double figures in eight of the 10 games this season.\u00a0 In taking over the point guard spot, he has recorded a personal-best eight assists twice this season.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in the Jayhawks being 18-6-2 on Wednesdays, while the Golden Bears are 6-0 ATS after allowing less than 50 points in their previous game.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a tremendous money-making opportunity and let the college basketball handicappers at Maddux Sports go to work for you.\u00a0 Don\u2019t miss out and join the fun today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kansas Jayhawks at California Golden Bears Wednesday, 12\/22\/10, 11:00 PM EDT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kansas -11.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Kansas -12 Opening Total:\u00a0 137 Current Total:\u00a0 137.5 Kansas is set to play its first true road game of the 2010-11 season when it travels to California on December 22.\u00a0 The Jayhawks bring in a perfect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[738,2958,4233,4182,34,740],"class_list":["post-11784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-12","tag-california-golden-bears","tag-haas-pavilion","tag-josh-selby","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-pac-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11784","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=11784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11786,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11784\/revisions\/11786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}