{"id":13547,"date":"2011-02-22T05:11:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T10:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13547"},"modified":"2011-02-22T05:11:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T10:11:08","slug":"big-12-battle-iowa-state-cyclones-at-texas-longhorns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/big-12-battle-iowa-state-cyclones-at-texas-longhorns-13547\/","title":{"rendered":"Big 12 Battle: Iowa State Cyclones at Texas Longhorns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iowa State Cyclones AT Texas Longhorns
\nFeb 22, 2011 at 8 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Texas -17.5
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Texas -17.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 Undefined.
\nMoneyline:\u00a0 Undefined.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Jordan Hamilton leads the 5th ranked Texas Longhorns in a Conference game tonight against Iowa State<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tonight’s game brings together Big 12 rivals Iowa State and Texas.\u00a0 Iowa State (14-13) is, despite a strong overall record), 1-11 in Big 12 play for dead last (12th) in the Conference.\u00a0 Texas is ranked 5th overall in the country with a 23-4 record and an 11-1 in Conference record, which obviously ranks them at the top of the Big 12.\u00a0 Texas is in the top 60 in three major statistical categories.\u00a0 They rank 39th in the country in scoring with 75.4 a game, 7th in the nation in rebounding with 40.7 a game, and 60th in field goal percentage, shooting 46.2%.<\/p>\n

They have been so good that they started taking things for granted, something Texas’ leading scorer Jordan Hamilton commented upon after the loss to Nebraska.\u00a0 “I think we could have played harder.\u00a0 I don’t think we ever got relaxed, but I definitely thing we could have played a lot harder.”<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Iowa State is 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games on the road and 0-5 SU in their last 5 games on the road.\u00a0 Iowa State is 1-7 SU In their last 8 road games against the Longhorns.<\/p>\n

Texas is 11-1 SU in their last 12 games and the total has gone UNDER in 8 of Texas’ last 9 games.\u00a0 Texas is 5-0 SU in their last 5 games at home and the total has gone UNDER in 5 of their last 6 home games.\u00a0 Texas is 0-4-1 ATS in their last 5 games against Iowa State and Texas is 5-0 SU in their last 5 games against Iowa State.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 5 of Texas’ last 5 games against Iowa State.\u00a0 Texas is 1-4 ATS in their last 5 home games against Iowa State.\u00a0 Texas is 7-1 SU in their last 8 games at home against Iowa State.<\/p>\n

Iowa State has a strong starting five that is relied upon rather heavily.\u00a0 All five starters log at least 28 minutes and Diante Garrett, Iowa State’s leading scorer, plays 36 minutes a night.\u00a0 All five starters also average in double figures in points.\u00a0 Garrett, a 6’4″ senior point guard, averages 17.3 points per game and 6.1 assists per game, and he has made the jump from an average to an elite player in one season.\u00a0 Last year, as a junior, he only averaged 9.2 points per game and 5.1 assists per game, in nearly as many minutes.\u00a0 What a difference a year makes.\u00a0 6’2″ senior shooting guard Darion ‘Jake’ Anderson leads the team in rebounding, despite being a guard.\u00a0 He grabs 7.5 rebounds per game and he has already had 5 games with 10 or more rebounds.\u00a0 He’s consistently good and is a key to Iowa State’s offense and defense (he averages 1.1 steals per game as well).<\/p>\n

Texas is led by 6’7″ sophomore swingman Jordan Hamilton.\u00a0 Hamilton is averaging 18.7 points per game and 7.5 rebounds per game, while shooting nearly 40% from three (71 of 178).\u00a0 He’s had 6 double doubles thus far, all in points – rebounds, and Texas has won 5 of those 6 games.\u00a0 In the loss last game to Nebraska, Hamilton struggled, going 3 of 16 from the floor (but hitting 9 of 11 free throws) en route to 18 very difficult points.\u00a0 The 11 free throws he attempted represented his season high in that category and enabled him to help keep Texas afloat on a night when not much was going right offensively.\u00a0 Texas has three other key rotation players in Tristian Thompson, Gary Johnson, and Cory Joseph — the three players other than Hamilton that average 30+ minutes per game.\u00a0 The trio combine for 35.4 points per game (47% of Texas’ output).<\/p>\n

Both teams rely heavily on their starting fives and don’t have a lot of depth.\u00a0 The difference is that Texas’ elite players, specifically Hamilton, are much better than Iowa State’s starting 5.\u00a0 Iowa State isn’t a horrible team; it’s just that Texas is that good, that college basketball oddsmakers have set the line so far in their favor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iowa State Cyclones AT Texas Longhorns Feb 22, 2011 at 8 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Texas -17.5 Current Line:\u00a0 Texas -17.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 Undefined. Moneyline:\u00a0 Undefined. Tonight’s game brings together Big 12 rivals Iowa State and Texas.\u00a0 Iowa State (14-13) is, despite a strong overall record), 1-11 in Big 12 play for dead last (12th) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":9764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4530,4531],"class_list":["post-13547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-iowa-state-cyclones-basketball","tag-texas-longhorns-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13547","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=13547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13549,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13547\/revisions\/13549"}],"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=13547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}