{"id":13854,"date":"2011-03-05T03:39:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T08:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13854"},"modified":"2011-03-05T03:39:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T08:39:55","slug":"kansas-travels-to-missouri-in-key-big-12-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/kansas-travels-to-missouri-in-key-big-12-game-13854\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas travels to Missouri in Key Big 12 Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kansas Jayhawks at Missouri Tigers, Mizzou Arena, Columbia, MO<br \/>\nSaturday, March 5, 2011, 12:00 pm Eastern, TV: CBS<br \/>\nOpening Line: Kansas -3 1\/2<br \/>\nCurrent Line: Kansas -2 1\/2<br \/>\nOpening Total: 155<br \/>\nCurrent Total: 156<br \/>\nMoney Line: Kansas -165 \/ Missouri +145<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9817\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9817\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9817\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/marcus-morris-kansas-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/marcus-morris-kansas-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/marcus-morris-kansas.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcus Morris and the Kansas Jayhawks are 3 point road favorites against Big 12 rival Missouri. The Jayhawks can wrap up the Big 12 conference title with a win. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kansas can clinch the Big 12 regular season title outright with a win Saturday at arch-rival Missouri. Kansas is ranked #2 in both polls and will probably be a number 1 seed in the NCAA tournament. For Missouri, this game is is important for seeding in\u00a0 next week&#8217;s Big 12 tournament. Right now, Missouri is 8-7 in conference, in fifth place a game behind Texas A&amp;M and Kansas St. Depending on what happens in the other conference games, Missouri can finish as high as fourth\u00a0 with a win against Kansas or as low as seventh with a loss. The top 4 teams get first round byes in the conference tournament. Kansas is 28-2 overall and 13-2 in the Big 12 a game ahead of Texas. Texas holds the tiebreaker as they beat Kansas in Lawrence earlier in the season. Kansas has won 4 straight games since losing to In-state rival Kansas St February 14. The four game streak includes a 64-51 home win over Texas A&amp;M. Missouri is 22-8 overall and 8-7 in conference. they are currently ranked in the top 25 but they have lost 2 straight games to Kansas St 80-70 and Nebraska 69-58. Both of those losses were on the road. Missouri has not lost at home this season, going 17-0.\u00a0 All of the Tigers&#8217; losses have been on the road or at neutral locations, including getting pasted at Kansas February 7 103-86.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas leads the overall series 170-94 including 64-56 in Columbia. Kansas has won 4 of the last 5 games in the series, and gone 5-0 ATS in those games, and 3 of those 5 have gone under the total. Missouri has won 52 of their last 54 home games. However, the 2 losses are to Kansas. Missouri is 9-1 ATS in home games after a conference loss. Kansas is 30-17 ATS versus conference teams with winning records\u00a0 the last 3 seasons. The Jayhawks are 15-6 ATS conference foes scoring 77 points or more per game the last three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas has no significant injuries right now. \u00a0 Kansas is led by the    Morris twins, 6&#8217;9&#8243;, 235 pound Marcus\u00a0 and  6&#8217;10&#8221;,  245 pound Markieff.    &#8220;Little Brother&#8221; Marcus averages 17.1  points, 6.9 rebounds\u00a0 and 1.5    assists a game. Big Brother Markieff  averages 13.6  points, 8.3    rebounds, 1.5 assists, and 1.2 blocks a  game. He leads the team  in    rebounding and blocks. Both Morris brothers  shoot over 36% from    3-point  range. Kansas Guard Josh Selby averages 10.1 points, 2.5   rebounds, 2.8   assists,  and 1.2  steals a game. He also shoots 38.2%   from 3-point  range. He has missed numerous games this season due to   injury and is still recovering from a stress fracture in his foot. Guard   Tyrel Reed averages 9.9  points, 2.8  rebounds, 1.9 assists,  and 1.6   steals a game to tie for the team lead. Kansas guard Tyshawn Taylor averages 8.8 points, 2.1 rebounds, leads the team in  assists with 4.6 a game and averages 1.2 steals a game. Forward Thomas Robinson is   averaging 8.2 points, and 6.3 rebounds a  game.  Brady Morningstar  averages 6.6  points 1.9 rebounds, 3.1 assists, and leads the team in   steals  with 1.6 a game. Kansas is outscoring opponents 83-65 on the   season.   Kansas is  shooting 52.1% from the field and 39.5% from  3-point  range.  The   Jayhawks are holding opponents to 39.7% shooting  from the  field. Kansas  makes 67.4% of their free throws.   Kansas  averages 38 rebounds and  has a rebounding margin of  +7.3. The    Jayhawks average 18.3 assists  and 13.4 turnovers a game. They  force    14.9 turnovers a game on  defense. Kansas averages 8.5 steals and  4.5    blocks a game.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri has no significant injuries right now. Missouri has 5 players     scoring in double digits. Guard Marcus Denmon averages 16.8 points to     lead the team, 3.4 rebounds, 1.7 assists, and 1.8 steals a game to tie for the team  lead.\u00a0 He is also  shooting 46.5% from 3 point range.\u00a0 Forward  Laurence\u00a0 Bowers  averages  11.4 points, 6 rebounds, 1.4  assists, 1.1  steals, and 2  blocks a  game to lead the team. Forward    Ricardo Ratliffe averages  10.9 points, 6.4 rebounds to lead the team,    1.4 assists, and 1.4 blocks a  game. Guard Kim English averages 10.3    points, 3.2 rebounds,  2 assists, and 1.3 steals a game.\u00a0 Guard Michael   Dixon  averages 10.3 points, 2.6  rebounds, 3.6 assists,  and 1.8   steals a game to lead the team. Phil Pressey averages\u00a0 4.1 assists to lead the team, and  1.8 steals a game to also lead the team. Missouri is  outscoring opponents  82-71 on the  season.  Missouri is shooting 46.9%  from the field and  37.9% from  3-point  range. Tiger opponents are  shooting 43.3% from the  field.  Missouri is  shooting 72.7% from the free  throw line. Missouri   averages 35.8 rebounds  a game and has a rebounding  margin of -1. The   Tigers average 16.8  assists and 13 turnovers a game.  Missouri  forces  18.1 turnovers a  game on defense. They average 9.6 steals  and  5.2  blocks a game.<\/p>\n<p>Expect lots of offense as these two teams both average over 80 points a game, and aren&#8217;t exactly the best defensive teams. The last time these two teams met they combined for 189 points. I think they will easily eclipse the 156 point total set up by the oddsmakers. It should be an entertaining match-up between two long time rivals.<\/p>\n<p>As the regular season winds down and postseason play gets underway, our college basketball handicappers are red hot. Don&#8217;t miss out on any more winners this season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas Jayhawks at Missouri Tigers, Mizzou Arena, Columbia, MO Saturday, March 5, 2011, 12:00 pm Eastern, TV: CBS Opening Line: Kansas -3 1\/2 Current Line: Kansas -2 1\/2 Opening Total: 155 Current Total: 156 Money Line: Kansas -165 \/ Missouri +145 Kansas can clinch the Big 12 regular season title outright with a win Saturday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40249,"featured_media":9817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[738,3236,4227,3887,34,433],"class_list":["post-13854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-12","tag-cbs","tag-colelge-basketball-handicapping","tag-college-basketball-betting","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-missouri-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854","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=13854"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14059,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854\/revisions\/14059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}