{"id":12905,"date":"2011-01-29T19:59:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T00:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=12905"},"modified":"2011-01-29T20:00:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T01:00:10","slug":"missouri-and-texas-meet-in-a-battle-of-top-15-teams-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/missouri-and-texas-meet-in-a-battle-of-top-15-teams-in-austin-12905\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri and Texas Meet in a Battle of Top 15 Teams in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Missouri Tigers at Texas Longhorns, Frank Erwin Special Events Center, Austin, TX
\nSaturday, January 29, 2011, 9:00 pm Eastern, TV: ESPNU
\nOpening Line: Texas -8
\nCurrent Line: Texas -7 1\/2
\nOpening Total: 145 1\/2
\nCurrent Total: 147
\nMoney Line: Texas -330 \/ Missouri +270 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Jordan Hamilton and the Texas Longhorns take on the Missouri Tigers in Austin in a battle of teams ranked in the top 15. Texas is a 7 1\/2 point favorite at home. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Missouri is 17-3 overall and 3-2 in the Big 12. They are ranked #11 in the AP poll and #13 in the coaches’ poll. The Tigers travel to Austin to take on the #7 or #8 Texas Longhorns. Texas is also 17-3 overall, but they 5-0 in conference. Missouri has losses to Georgetown, Colorado, and Texas A&M on the season. All were on the road or at a neutral site. The Georgetown game was played in nearby Kansas City. The losses to Georgetown and Texas A&M were in overtime. Missouri has wins over Wyoming, Oregon, Vanderbilt, Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas St, and Iowa St last Saturday. Missouri beat Iowa St 87-54 at home. Texas has losses to Pitt, USC, and UConn on the season. They have wins over Illinois, North Carolina, Michigan St, Arkansas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Kansas, and Oklahoma St. The Longhorns’ win at Kansas snapped a 69 game home winning streak for Kansas. In their last game Wednesday, Texas won on the road at Oklahoma St 61-46. The overall series is tied at 11 between the two teams, but Texas leads 5-3 in Austin. Missouri has won and covered the last two games in the series. Texas is 12-3 ATS in all games this year. Texas is 8-1 ATS this year when the total is between 140 and 150 points, and 8-2 ATS when playing a team with a winning record this year.<\/p>\n

Missouri has no significant injuries right now. Missouri has 5 players scoring in double digits. Guard Marcus Denmon averages 17.3 points to lead the team, 4 rebounds, 1.9 assists, and 2 steals a game. He is also shooting 49.1% from 3 point range. Forward Ricardo Ratliffe averages 11.8 points, 7 rebounds to lead the team, 1.3 assists, and 1.7 blocks a game. Forward Laurence\u00a0 Bowers averages 11.5 points, 6.2 rebounds, 1.5 assists, 1 steal, and 2.2 blocks a game to lead the team. Guard Michael Dixon averages 10.9 points, 2.8 rebounds, 4.6 assists to lead the team, and 2.1 steals a game to lead the team. Guard Kim English averages 10.7 points, 3.1 rebounds, 2.5 assists, and 1.6 steals a game. Missouri is outscoring opponents 85-69 on the season. Missouri is shooting 47.5% from the field and 38.2% from 3-point range. Tiger opponents are shooting 40.9% from the field. Missouri is shooting 71.1% from the free throw line. Missouri averages 38.3 rebounds a game and has a rebounding margin of +1.6. The Tigers average 18 assists and 13.2 turnovers a game. Missouri forces 19 turnovers a game on defense. They average 10 steals and 5.9 blocks a game.<\/p>\n

Texas has no significant injuries right now either. Texas is led by guard\/forward Jordan Hamilton. Hamilton is averaging 19.2 points, 7.4 rebounds, and 2.3 assists a game. He is the leading scorer and rebounder for the Longhorns and also is shooting 43.2% from 3-point range. Forward Tristan Thompson averages 13.1 points, 7.4 rebounds, 1.2 assists, 1.2 steals, and 2.3 blocks a game. He leads the team in rebounding, steals, and blocks. Forward Gary Johnson averages 11.7 points, 6.9 rebounds and 1.3 assists a game. Guard Cory Joseph averages 11.1 points, 4.2 rebounds, 3 assists to lead the team, and 1.1 steals a game. Texas is outscoring opponents 77-61 on the season. They are shooting 46.1% from the field and 38.5% from 3-point range. Longhorn opponents are shooting 36.7% from the field. Texas makes 66.2% of their free throws. Texas averages 41.4 rebounds and has a rebounding margin of +7.1. The Longhorns average 14 assists and 12.4 turnovers a game. Texas forces 13.8 turnovers a game on defense. Texas averages 5.1 blocks and 6.3 steals a game.<\/p>\n

Missouri plays a smother pressure defense that will force many turnovers. It is very difficult to adjust if you have never played against it. Texas is very difficult to beat in Austin. I think this game will be close and Texas will win late.<\/p>\n

Our college basketball handicappers are red hot in 2011. Don’t miss out on any more winners in 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Missouri Tigers at Texas Longhorns, Frank Erwin Special Events Center, Austin, TX Saturday, January 29, 2011, 9:00 pm Eastern, TV: ESPNU Opening Line: Texas -8 Current Line: Texas -7 1\/2 Opening Total: 145 1\/2 Current Total: 147 Money Line: Texas -330 \/ Missouri +270 Missouri is 17-3 overall and 3-2 in the Big 12. They […]<\/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":[738,3887,3631,3125,433,496],"class_list":["post-12905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-12","tag-college-basketball-betting","tag-college-basketball-handicapping","tag-espnu","tag-missouri-tigers","tag-texas-longhorns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905","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=12905"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13131,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905\/revisions\/13131"}],"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=12905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}