{"id":20957,"date":"2012-01-10T11:48:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T16:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=20957"},"modified":"2012-01-10T11:48:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T16:48:36","slug":"college-basketball-picks-baylor-bears-vs-kansas-state-wildcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-baylor-bears-vs-kansas-state-wildcats-20957\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Baylor Bears vs. Kansas State Wildcats"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 4 Baylor Bears at No. 18 Kansas State Wildcats
\nTuesday, 1\/10\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kansas State -2.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Kansas State -2.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 129
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 133.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Baylor Bears are road underdogs Tuesday night against the Kansas State Wildcats<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Baylor will put its perfect record on the line Tuesday night inside Bramlage Coliseum, as the program is 15-0 to start the season for the first time in program history.\u00a0 The Bears know they will need to match the Wildcats\u2019 energy level to walk away with a victory.\u00a0 \u201cThey always play hard, they always compete,\u201d stated Bears head coach Scott Drew.\u00a0 \u201cThe atmosphere gives them a great home-court advantage.\u201d\u00a0 The program leads the Big 12 Conference in allowing opponents to shoot just 36.3 percent per game.\u00a0 Baylor is 12-9 ATS on the road the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Bears will be playing two games in the Sunflower State this week, as they travel to take on the Kansas Jayhawks in Lawrence after this contest.\u00a0 Baylor is 12-29 all-time against the conference\u2019s Kansas schools.\u00a0 The program is 6-0 away from home and tonight\u2019s game will be the fourth true road game of the season.\u00a0 Four players in the starting lineup average double figures in points, as sophomore forward Perry Jones III leads the way in scoring 13.0 points per game.<\/p>\n

Kansas State plays host to its second unbeaten team in four days and will be looking to win back-to-back games against Top 10 teams for the first time in school history.\u00a0 The Wildcats are coming off an impressive 75-59 victory over the Missouri Tigers as one-point home underdogs, while going \u2018under\u2019 the total in three straight contests heading into tonight.\u00a0 The program is 13-10 in this particular series, including a 3-2 mark under the direction of current head coach Frank Martin.\u00a0 Kansas State is 2-0 ATS as a home favorite of 3.5 to 6 points over the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats have three players in their starting lineup that average double-digit points, with junior guard Rodney McGruder leading the way in scoring 13.2 points per game.\u00a0 Kansas State has a deep roster with seven players averaging six or more points.\u00a0 Getting to the free-throw line is one of the strengths of this team, scoring nearly 25 percent of its points after getting fouled.\u00a0 Kansas State ranks among the top 30 nationally in four defensive categories, including 14th in field goal percentage defense.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Bears due to the underdog being 10-3 ATS in this series, while the Wildcats are just 8-8 ATS in January the past two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

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No. 4 Baylor Bears at No. 18 Kansas State Wildcats Tuesday, 1\/10\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kansas State -2.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Kansas State -2.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 129 Current Total:\u00a0 133.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Baylor will put its perfect record on the line Tuesday night inside Bramlage Coliseum, as the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3288,6324,3946,2807,5739,6296,4189],"class_list":["post-20957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-baylor-bears","tag-bramlage-coliseum","tag-frank-martin","tag-kansas-state-wildcats","tag-perry-jones-iii","tag-rodney-mcgruder","tag-scott-drew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20957","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=20957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20958,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20957\/revisions\/20958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}