{"id":12161,"date":"2011-01-04T12:35:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T17:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=12161"},"modified":"2011-01-04T12:35:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T17:35:16","slug":"missouri-valley-conference-battle-missouri-state-at-creighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/missouri-valley-conference-battle-missouri-state-at-creighton-12161\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Valley Conference Battle: Missouri State at Creighton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Missouri State vs Creighton
\nTuesday, January 4th, 2011 at 8:00 PM EST
\nOpening Line: Missouri State -2
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Missouri State -1.5
\nTotal:\u00a0 n\/a
\nOpening Moneyline: Missouri State -135 \/ Creighton +115
\nCurrent Moneyline: Missouri State -125 \/ Creighton +105<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Vegas Oddsmakers have narrowly favored Missouri State<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tonight’s matchup brings together the leading teams in the Missouri Valley conference.\u00a0 They are currently tied for the lead in the conference and the line set by college basketball oddsmakers indicates that this is going to be a close matchup between the conference rivals.<\/p>\n

Creighton has won six straight (Drake, Illinois State, Samford, Western Illinois, Idaho State, and Saint Joe’s) and Missouri State has won four straight (Illinois State, Northern Iowa, Arizona State, and Saint Louis), so one of these streaks will come to an end and one of these teams will pull into first alone in their conference.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Missouri State is 4-9 ATS in their last 13 road games and have lost 12 of their last 13 on the road.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER In 12 of their last 18 on the road and they have dropped their last 5 to Creighton on the road, in which games they are 0-5 ATS.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 4 of the last 5 games at Creighton.<\/p>\n

Creighton has won their last 5 at home and are 11-1-1 ATS in their last 13 games against Missouri State.\u00a0 They have won 8 of the last 10 meetings between the teams.<\/p>\n

Creighton is led by 4 players who average 10 points per night or greater (Antoine Young, Doug McDermott, Kenny Lawson Jr., and Gregory Echenique).\u00a0 6’0″ junior point guard Antoine Young leads the way with 14.1 points per game and he also averages 4.1 assists per night.\u00a0 He’s an effective three point shooter at 36.5% has already had three 20+ point games and scored 15 points on 7 of 10 shooting last game against Drake.\u00a0 The Bluejays have two strong interior defenders in Echenique and Darryl Ashford who both block more than 1 shot a game.\u00a0 They will defend the paint well against Missouri State’s guards.<\/p>\n

Missouri State is 40th in the nation in field goal percentage, shooting 47.7%.\u00a0 They are led by Sonny Weems of the Raptors’ younger brother, Kyle Weems, who much like his brother is a great scorer, with 16.4 points per game in 28 minutes a night.\u00a0 He also leads the Bears in rebounding with 6.8 boards per game.\u00a0 He’s scored in double figures in every game so far except the 62-50 loss to Tulsa.\u00a0 He had four game streak of 20+ games against Central Arkansas, Oklahoma State, Saint Louis, and Arkansas State, with only the Central Arkansas game being a loss.\u00a0 He’ll go a long way towards Missouri State winning the conference, if they do, and earning a berth in the NCAA tournament.<\/p>\n

It’s hard to believe that college basketball oddsmakers have set the spread in Missouri State’s favor given Creighton’s dominance over them at home.\u00a0 Nonetheless, they enter tonight’s game as narrow favorites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Missouri State vs Creighton Tuesday, January 4th, 2011 at 8:00 PM EST Opening Line: Missouri State -2 Current Line:\u00a0 Missouri State -1.5 Total:\u00a0 n\/a Opening Moneyline: Missouri State -135 \/ Creighton +115 Current Moneyline: Missouri State -125 \/ Creighton +105 Tonight’s matchup brings together the leading teams in the Missouri Valley conference.\u00a0 They are currently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":4660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4306,4307],"class_list":["post-12161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-creighton","tag-missouri-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161","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\/40250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12163,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161\/revisions\/12163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}