{"id":19390,"date":"2011-11-14T22:07:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T03:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=19390"},"modified":"2011-11-14T22:07:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T03:07:04","slug":"college-basketball-tuesday-night-preview-kansas-jayhawks-vs-kentucky-wildcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-tuesday-night-preview-kansas-jayhawks-vs-kentucky-wildcats-19390\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Tuesday Night Preview: Kansas Jayhawks vs. Kentucky Wildcats"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 11 Kansas Jayhawks vs. No. 2 Kentucky Wildcats
\nTuesday, 11\/15\/11, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kentucky -4
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Kentucky -6
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 147.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 147.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Kansas Jayhawks are six-point neutral-site underdogs against the Kentucky Wildcats Tuesday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kansas had no trouble in its season opener in handing the Towson Tigers a resounding 100-54 defeat in the first round of the EA Sports Maui Invitation, as the team with just eight recruited scholarship players was happy with the performance.\u00a0 \u201cThis will be a fun year for me, but I\u2019ve got to learn to enjoy the process,\u201d commented Jayhawks coach Bill Self.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re going to have two good days and we\u2019re going to have an awful day.\u201d\u00a0 The offseason saw two promising freshmen be deemed ineligible before the 2011-12 campaign.\u00a0 Kansas is 8-10 ATS on a neutral court the last two-plus seasons, while the \u2018under\u2019 is 10-8 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Jayhawks were led in scoring by preseason All-American candidate Thomas Robinson, who scored 18 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, leading a group of four players in double figures against the Tigers.\u00a0 Tyshawn Taylor is the team\u2019s leading returning scorer, averaging 9.3 points a year ago, as he chipped in with 12 points in the contest.\u00a0 Self has enjoyed tremendous success since arriving Lawrence, especially over the last five years, as Kansas is the winningest college program in that time frame.<\/p>\n

Kentucky tallied an ultra-impressive 108-58 win over the Marist Red Foxes, with five players scoring in double-figures, led by freshman Anthony Davis\u2019 23 points.\u00a0 Wildcats head coach John Calipari will certainly be looking for revenge against Self, losing the 2008 National Championship Game when he was coaching at Memphis.\u00a0 \u201cIt may be a statement game, but I hope it\u2019s one they think it will be,\u201d commented Calipari about his youthful roster.\u00a0 The program watched three freshman start for the first time in history in the opener.\u00a0 Kentucky is 14-8 ATS in neutral court games the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats have a legitimate star in Terrence Jones, who was named a preseason First Team All-American.\u00a0 Kentucky will be playing inside Madison Square Garden for the 14th time, coming in with a solid 10-3 mark, while also tallying a 41-16 mark when playing in the New York Metro area.\u00a0 Calipari has recruited a talented bunch and won 30 or more games for the fifth consecutive season a year ago.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Jayhawks due to their 7-1 ATS mark versus the SEC, while the Wildcats are 0-4-1 ATS versus the Big 12 Conference.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the college basketball handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No. 11 Kansas Jayhawks vs. No. 2 Kentucky Wildcats Tuesday, 11\/15\/11, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kentucky -4 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Kentucky -6 Opening Total:\u00a0 147.5 Current Total:\u00a0 147.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Kansas had no trouble in its season opener in handing the Towson Tigers a resounding 100-54 defeat in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[5659,4026,756,34,876,3902,3897,5740],"class_list":["post-19390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-anthony-davis","tag-bill-self","tag-john-calipari","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-kentucky-wildcats","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-terrence-jones","tag-thomas-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19390","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\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19391,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19390\/revisions\/19391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}