{"id":12167,"date":"2011-01-04T19:27:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T00:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=12167"},"modified":"2011-01-04T19:27:36","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T00:27:36","slug":"border-battle-basketball-a-look-at-arkansas-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/border-battle-basketball-a-look-at-arkansas-texas-12167\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Battle Basketball: A Look at Arkansas-Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Arkansas Razorbacks at Texas Longhorns, Frank Erwin Special Events Center, Austin, TX<br \/>\nTuesday, January 4, 2011, 9:00 pm Eastern, TV: ESPNU<br \/>\nOpening Line: Texas -11<br \/>\nCurrent Line: Texas -10<br \/>\nOpening Total: 139<br \/>\nCurrent Total: 143<br \/>\nMoney Line: Texas -600 \/ Arkansas +475<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9764\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9764\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9764\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Jordan-Hamilton-texas-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Jordan-Hamilton-texas-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Jordan-Hamilton-texas.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jordan Hamilton and the Texas Longhorns take on the Arkansas razorbacks in Austin. The Longhorns are 10 point favorites. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 10-2 Arkansas Razorbacks face their toughest road game of the season as they take on the #12 11-2 Texas Longhorns in Austin. Arkansas is 1-2 in 3 road\/neutral site games. They lost at Alabama-Birmingham, beat Seton Hall in Louisville, and lost in Dallas to Texas A&amp;M. The Razorbacks also have a win over Oklahoma at home. The schedule hasn&#8217;t been that difficult so far. Texas has losses to Pittsburgh in New York and at USC. Texas has wins over Illinois, Michigan St and North Carolina. Arkansas holds an 86-66 advantage in the series against their former Southwest Conference rival. Texas has won 2 of the last 3 though including a 96-85 win last year in Fayetteville. This is the last meeting in a 4 game series that began in 2006. Texas is 22-11 ATS in non-conference games the last three years. They are also 1-8 in home games against teams allowing 64 points or fewer a game in the same span.<\/p>\n<p>Arkansas is outscoring opponents 76-62 on the season. The Razorbacks are shooting 45.0% from the field and 36.3% from 3-point range. The Razorbacks are holding opponents to 37.4% shooting from the field. Arkansas makes 67.8% of their free throws. Junior Guard Rotnei Clarke leads the Razorbacks in scoring with 14.3 ppg. Delvon Johnson leads the Razorbacks in rebounds\u00a0 with 8.8 a game and blocks with 4.1 a game. He is also scoring 10.3 ppg. Guard Julysses Nobles leads the team in assists with 3.3 a game and steals with 1.7 a game. Nobles\u00a0 averages 9.5 ppg but si shooting 48.3% from 3-point range. The Razorbacks average 36.8 rebounds a game and have a rebounding margin of -1.2. They average 14.3 assists and 14.0 turnovers a game. They force 18.3 turnovers a game on defense. They average 9.9 steals and 7.8 blocks a game.<\/p>\n<p>Texas is outscoring opponents 78-63. They shoot 44.8% from the field and 35.8% from 3-point range. The Longhorns are holding opponents to 36.5% shooting from the field. Texas shoots 65.8% from the free throw line. Guard\/forward Jordan Hamilton leads the Longhorns in scoring with 19.8 ppg. He also averages 7.2 rebounds and 2.4 assists a game while shooting 41.2% from 3-point range. Forward Tristan Thompson scores 12.0 ppg,and also averages 8.1 rebounds and 2 blocks a game to lead the team in both categories. He also averages 1.2 assists and 1.2 steals a game. Forward Gary Johnson averages 11.7 ppg and 7.3 rebounds a game. Freshman point guard averages 11.7 ppg, 3.8 rebounds, 3.1 assists to lead the team, and 1.1 steals a game. Texas averages 43.1 rebounds a game and has rebounding margin of +7.9. They average 14.4 assists and 12.9 turnovers a game. Texas forces 14.3 turnovers a game on defense. They average 4.9 blocks and 6.0 steals a game.<\/p>\n<p>Texas has the decided advantage in rebounding. Both of these teams play really good defense, and this game could be played in the high 60&#8217;s or low 70&#8217;s. Both teams force a lot of turnovers on defense. Neither team shoots free throws very well which could be a factor if the game is close. Texas has a 27 game home winning streak against non-conference foes.<\/p>\n<p>Our college basketball handicappers are red hot as conference play starts around the country. Don&#8217;t miss out on any more winners this season.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arkansas Razorbacks at Texas Longhorns, Frank Erwin Special Events Center, Austin, TX Tuesday, January 4, 2011, 9:00 pm Eastern, TV: ESPNU Opening Line: Texas -11 Current Line: Texas -10 Opening Total: 139 Current Total: 143 Money Line: Texas -600 \/ Arkansas +475 The 10-2 Arkansas Razorbacks face their toughest road game of the season as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40249,"featured_media":9764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[2448,738,4308,3631,3125,739,496],"class_list":["post-12167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-arkansas-razorbacks","tag-big-12","tag-colelge-basketball-betting","tag-college-basketball-handicapping","tag-espnu","tag-sec","tag-texas-longhorns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12167","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\/40249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12173,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12167\/revisions\/12173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}