{"id":12939,"date":"2011-01-30T17:40:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T22:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=12939"},"modified":"2011-01-30T17:40:23","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T22:40:23","slug":"missouri-valley-conference-showdown-northern-iowa-at-missouri-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/missouri-valley-conference-showdown-northern-iowa-at-missouri-state-12939\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Valley Conference Showdown: Northern Iowa at Missouri State"},"content":{"rendered":"

Northern Iowa AT Missouri State
\nJan 30, 2011 at 8:05 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Miss St -7
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Miss St -7
\nOpening Total: 123
\nCurrent Total: 124
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 Miss St -310 \/ N Iowa +260
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Miss St -335 \/ N Iowa +265<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Missouri State are 7 point favorites over Northern Iowa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This game brings together two powerhouses so to speak of the Missouri Valley Conference.\u00a0 Nothern Iowa (16-6) is third in the conference with a 7-3 in conference record and Missouri State (17-4)\u00a0 is the first place team in the conference with a 9-1 conference record.<\/p>\n

As you would expect from two teams with solid winning records, both teams sport positive point differentials.\u00a0 Northern Iowa is +5.9, scoring 63.5 and holding their opponents to a rather stingy 57.6 points.\u00a0 Missouri State scores more with 71.2 points per game while giving up 62.0, good for a +9.2 win differential.\u00a0 The combinative total of their offensive output is 134.7, well over the total set for tonight’s game.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Northern Iowa is 4-2 SU in their last 6 road games and 6-1 SU in their last 7 games on the road against Missouri State.<\/p>\n

Missouri State is 11-1 SU in their last 12 games and 5-0 SU in their last 5 home games.\u00a0 They are 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games against Northern Iowa and 1-4 SU in their last 5 against them.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 5 of their last 7 against Northern Iowa and Missouri State is 1-12 ATS in their last 13 against them.\u00a0 Missouri State is also 1-6 SU in their last 7 home games against Northern Iowa.<\/p>\n

Northern Iowa is led by the quartet of Kwadzo Ahelegbe, Anthony James, Jake Koch, and Johnny Moran.\u00a0 The four of them combine for 44.5 points a game, about 70% of Northern Iowa’s total offensive output.\u00a0 Ahelegbe, a 6’2″ senior guard, averages 13.4 points per game, 2.7 assists per game, and 2.8 rebounds, while shooting 33% from behind the arc and 43% from the field.\u00a0 He’s already had 6 games with 20+, illustrating how good he can be at times, but also how inconsistent, as there have been 9 games which he failed to reach double figures.\u00a0 He had his highest scoring game last game against Creighton, shooting 10 of 19 from the floor en route to 26 points.\u00a0 He’s also averaging 5 assists per game over his last two games, showing he can not only create for himself but also for James, Koch, and Moran.<\/p>\n

Missouri State is led by Sonny Weems’ of the Raptors younger brother, Kyle Weems.\u00a0 He puts up 16.5 points per game, and also grabs 6.9 boards, and is far and away Missouri State’s best player and go to scorer.\u00a0 He’s shooting 53.6% from the floor and has scored in double figures in all but one game.\u00a0 Over his last two games he’s averaging 20.5 points per game on 18-32 shooting from the floor.\u00a0 Northern Iowa will likely put Jake Koch on Weems to start out, attempting to frustrate him with his 6’9″ frame (Weems is 6’6″), but if it proves that Weems gets to the basket too much they may bring in Sonnen, who is undersized but quick enough to keep Weems in front of him.<\/p>\n

Tonight’s game will be a measuring stick for both teams as they are both conference contenders and at least one of them will likely be playing in March, if not both teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Northern Iowa AT Missouri State Jan 30, 2011 at 8:05 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Miss St -7 Current Line:\u00a0 Miss St -7 Opening Total: 123 Current Total: 124 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 Miss St -310 \/ N Iowa +260 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Miss St -335 \/ N Iowa +265 This game brings together two powerhouses so to speak […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":4659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4307,1382],"class_list":["post-12939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-missouri-state","tag-northern-iowa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12939","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=12939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12941,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12939\/revisions\/12941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}