{"id":14251,"date":"2011-03-17T13:25:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T18:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=14251"},"modified":"2011-03-17T13:25:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T18:25:13","slug":"west-region-second-round-memphis-takes-on-arizona-in-tulsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/west-region-second-round-memphis-takes-on-arizona-in-tulsa-14251\/","title":{"rendered":"West Region Second Round: Memphis Takes On Arizona in Tulsa"},"content":{"rendered":"

NCAA Tournament West Region Second Round
\n#5 Arizona Wildcats vs #12 Memphis Tigers
\nBank of Oklahoma Center, Tulsa, OK
\nFriday, March 18, 2011, 2:45 pm Eastern, TV: CBS
\nOpening Line: Arizona -6 1\/2
\nCurrent Line: Arizona -5 1\/2
\nOpening Total: 138 1\/2
\nCurrent Total: 139
\nMoney Line: Arizona -240 \/ Memphis +200<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Memphis Tigers are a 5 1\/2 point underdog versus Arizona in the west region second round in Tulsa. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Memphis head coach Josh Pastner is very familiar with his opponent in the NCAA having graduated form Arizona in 1998. After graduated he became a scout and assistant coach for the Wildcats. He stayed with the Wildcats until he was offered the head coaching position at Memphis 2 years ago. Now he leads his #12 seeded Memphis Tigers in Tulsa to take on the #5 seed Arizona Wildcats. Memphis is the youngest team in the tournament and 7th youngest team in all division 1 basketball. Memphis finished the regular season 25-9 and was the fourth place finisher in Conference USA with a 10-6 record. Memphis has won 4 straight games including a 67-66 comeback win at UTEP in the Conference USA Championship game. Te Miners were up by 9 at halftime before Memphis rallied. Arizona won the Pac-10 regular season title with a 27-7 overall record\u00a0 and a 14-4 league record. They had won 4 straight games before losing in overtime to Washington 77-75 in the Pac-10 Championship last Saturday.<\/p>\n

Memphis leads the overall series 4-3 but the two teams haven’t played since 2007. Memphis is 3-3 against teams that made the tournament this year. Arizona was 5-6 against tournament teams this year. Memphis is 22-37 ATS in all games the last 2 seasons, including 6-16 when the total is between 130 and 140, and 6-18 in non-conference games in the same span.<\/p>\n

Memphis has no significant injuries right now.\u00a0 The Tigers are very young with freshmen getting more than 60% of the minutes. Freshman Will Barton leads the team in scoring with 12.3 points a game. He also averages 5 rebounds, 2.8 assists, and 1.5 steals a game to also lead the team. Joe Jackson scores 9.9 points, and leads the team in assists with 3.1 a game. He also averages 2.1 rebounds and 1 steal a game. Forward Tarik Black averages 9.2 points, 5.2 rebounds, and 1.6 blocks a game. He leads the team in rebounds and blocks. Junior guard\/forward Wesley Witherspoon averages 9 points, 4.3 rebounds, 1 assists, and 1.1 steals a game. He is shooting 39.4% from 3 point range, but doesn’t attempt that many 3 pointers.\u00a0 Memphis is outscoring opponents 72-68 on the season. The Tigers shoot 45% from the field and 32.7% from 3-point range. Tiger opponents shoot 41.5% from the field. The Tigers make 67.9% of their free throws. They average 35.7 rebounds a game and have a rebounding margin of +0.7. The Tigers average 14.6 assists and 15.3 turnovers a game. They force 14.9 turnovers a game on defense. Memphis averages 8.5 steals and 5.4 blocks a game.<\/p>\n

Arizona has no significant injuries right now. Arizona sophomore forward Derrick Williams won the Pac-10 player of the year. He leads the Wildcats in almost every statistical category except assists. He is averaging 19.1 points a game, 8.1 rebounds, 1.1 assists, and 0.9 steals and 0.7 blocks a game. Though he doesn’t shoot a lot of 3-pointers he is shooting 60.3% from behind the arc. Guard Lamont Jones averages 9.6 points, 1.5 rebounds, and 2.4 assists a game. Guard Kyle Fogg is averaging 8.3 points, 1.9 rebounds, 2.6 assists to lead the team and 0.9 steals a game to tie for the team lead. Forward Solomon Hill averages 7.8 points, 4.4 rebounds, 1.7 assists, and 0.8 steals a game.\u00a0 Arizona is outscoring opponents 77-68 this season. The Wildcats are shooting 47.1% from the field and 39.9% from 3-point range. Arizona opponents are shooting\u00a0 44.3%\u00a0 from the field. The ‘Cats make 74.7% of their free throws. Arizona averages 34.6 rebounds a game and has a rebounding margin of +3.9. Arizona averages 14.1 assists and 12.9 turnovers a game. They force 12.7 turnovers a game on defense. Arizona averages 2.6 blocks and 5.1 steals a game.<\/p>\n

Though Memphis is the youngest team in the tournament, Arizona doesn’t have a lot of experience either. In fact, there are only 2 seniors combined on both teams. Neither team rebounds very well, but defends reasonably well. This should be a close game that will come down to the wire.<\/p>\n

Our college basketball handicappers are red hot as the tournament is in full swing. Don’t miss out on any more winners from now until\u00a0 the Championship game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NCAA Tournament West Region Second Round #5 Arizona Wildcats vs #12 Memphis Tigers Bank of Oklahoma Center, Tulsa, OK Friday, March 18, 2011, 2:45 pm Eastern, TV: CBS Opening Line: Arizona -6 1\/2 Current Line: Arizona -5 1\/2 Opening Total: 138 1\/2 Current Total: 139 Money Line: Arizona -240 \/ Memphis +200 Memphis head coach […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40249,"featured_media":10533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4704,578,3236,4308,4227,4676,2558,33,3,740,242,1378],"class_list":["post-14251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-amrch-madness","tag-arizona-wildcats","tag-cbs","tag-colelge-basketball-betting","tag-colelge-basketball-handicapping","tag-college-hoops","tag-conference-usa","tag-memphis-tigers","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-pac-10","tag-second-round","tag-west-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14251","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=14251"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14353,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14251\/revisions\/14353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}