{"id":14032,"date":"2011-03-10T17:27:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T22:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=14032"},"modified":"2011-03-10T17:27:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T22:27:05","slug":"red-river-rivalry-comes-to-kc-for-big-12-quarters-oklahoma-vs-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/red-river-rivalry-comes-to-kc-for-big-12-quarters-oklahoma-vs-texas-14032\/","title":{"rendered":"Red River Rivalry comes to KC for Big 12 Quarters: Oklahoma vs Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Big 12 Quarterfinals<br \/>\nOklahoma Sooners vs Texas Longhorns<br \/>\nSprint Center, Kansas City, MO<br \/>\nThursday, March 10, 2011, 7:00 pm Eastern, TV: MASN, Altitude<br \/>\nOpening Line: Texas -14<br \/>\nCurrent Line: Texas -14<br \/>\nOpening Total: 131<br \/>\nCurrent Total: 131<br \/>\nMoney Line: Texas -1300 \/ Oklahoma +850<\/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 leads the Longhorns in a Big 12 quarterfinal match-up with rival Oklahoma. The Longhorns are a 14 point favorite in Kansas City. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Oklahoma advanced to this game after thrashing Baylor 84-67. Baylor found out just hours before the game that forward Perry Jones III would be suspended for violating NCAA rules<strong>. <\/strong>Oklahoma is 14-17 overall and 5-11 in the Big 12. They beat Oklahoma St to close out the regular season but had lost 8 in a row before that. The Sooners now get a Texas team that has also struggled down the stretch. Texas lost 3 of their last 5 games to fall behind Kansas for the regular season title. The Longhorns beat Baylor in Waco Saturday 60-54 in their last game. Texas is 25-6 overall and 13-3 in conference. They are ranked #10 in both polls. They have a good shot at a top 3 seed in the NCAA tournament next week. Texas swept the regular season series winnign both games handily. They won at home January 15 66-46 and in Norman February 9 68-52.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma leads the overall series against Texas 47-31. Texas has won four of the last six in the series, but is 3-3 ATS in those games. <strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma has no significant injuries right now.\u00a0 Guard Cade Davis averages 14.1 points to lead the team, 5 rebounds, 1.8  assists, and 1 steal a game. The Sooners are led by  forward Andrew Fitzgerald. He is averaging 12.6 points, 5.1 rebounds,  1.1 steals, and 0.6 blocks a game. He leads the team in rebounds, steals and blocks. Guard Steven Pledger averages 11 points,  2.1 rebounds, 1.7 assists, and 0.9 steal a game. Cameron Clark averages  9.5 points, 4.6 rebounds, and 1.1 assists a game. Carl Blair averages 7.5 points,  2.9 rebounds, and 4.6 assists a game to lead the team. Oklahoma is being outscored 69-66 on the season. The Sooners are shooting 44.9%  from the field and 34% from 3-point range. Sooner opponents are  shooting 44.9% from the field. The Sooners make 73.7% of their free  throws. They average 30.5 rebounds a game and have a rebounding margin  of -1.9. Oklahoma averages 12.5 assists and 13.6 turnovers\u00a0 a game. They  force 13.3 turnovers a game on defense. The Sooners average 2.7 blocks  and 5.6 steals a game.<\/p>\n<p>Texas has no significant injuries right now. Texas is led by     guard\/forward Jordan Hamilton. Hamilton is averaging 18.5 points, 7.6     rebounds, and 2.2 assists a game. He is the leading scorer for the Longhorns and also is shooting 39.8% from 3-point range.     Forward Tristan Thompson averages 13.5 points, 7.7 rebounds, 1.3     assists, 1 steal, and 2.3 blocks a game. He leads the team in     rebounding and blocks. Forward Gary Johnson averages 12   points, 7   rebounds and 1.2 assists a game. Guard Cory Joseph averages   10.5  points, 3.6 rebounds, 3 assists to lead the team, and 1 steals a    game to  lead the team. Texas is outscoring opponents 75-61 on the  season. They  are   shooting 45.3% from the field and 37.6% from 3-point  range.  Longhorn   opponents are shooting 37.% from the field. Texas  makes only  64.3% of  their  free throws. Texas averages 40.8 rebounds and  has a  rebounding  margin of  +6.5. The Longhorns average 13.4 assists  and 11.9  turnovers a  game. Texas  forces 13.2 turnovers a game on  defense.  Texas averages 5  blocks and 5.9 steals a game.<\/p>\n<p>Texas is one of the best rebounding teams in the Country while Oklahoma is one of the worst. Texas dominates in every statistical category. I don&#8217;t see Oklahoma even making this a game but\u00a0 it is March and stranger things have happened.<\/p>\n<p>Our college basketball handicappers are red hot in 2011. Don&#8217;t miss out on any more winners this season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big 12 Quarterfinals Oklahoma Sooners vs Texas Longhorns Sprint Center, Kansas City, MO Thursday, March 10, 2011, 7:00 pm Eastern, TV: MASN, Altitude Opening Line: Texas -14 Current Line: Texas -14 Opening Total: 131 Current Total: 131 Money Line: Texas -1300 \/ Oklahoma +850 Oklahoma advanced to this game after thrashing Baylor 84-67. Baylor found [&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":[738,1367,3887,3631,1492,408,496],"class_list":["post-14032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-12","tag-championship-week","tag-college-basketball-betting","tag-college-basketball-handicapping","tag-espn","tag-oklahoma-sooners","tag-texas-longhorns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14032","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=14032"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14072,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14032\/revisions\/14072"}],"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=14032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}