{"id":21045,"date":"2012-01-14T01:57:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T06:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21045"},"modified":"2012-01-14T01:57:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T06:57:47","slug":"big-12-basketball-picks-texas-longhorns-at-missouri-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/big-12-basketball-picks-texas-longhorns-at-missouri-tigers-21045\/","title":{"rendered":"Big 12 Basketball Picks: Texas Longhorns at Missouri Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas Longhorns at #9 Missouri Tigers
\nMizzou Arena – Columbia, Missouri
\nSaturday, January 14, 2012, 1:00 pm Eastern, TV: ESPN2
\nOpening Line: Missouri -9 1\/2
\nCurrent Line: Missouri -10
\nOpening Total: 143 1\/2
\nCurrent Total: 143 1\/2
\nOpening Money Line: Missouri -600 \/ Texas +450
\nCurrent Money Line; Missouri -600 \/ Texas +450<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Missouri hosts Texas in a key Big 12 game Saturday. Missouri is a 10 point favorite at home.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Both Texas and Missouri are 2-1 this season in the Big 12. The Texas Longhorns are 12-4. Texas opened conference play with a loss at Iowa St, but has won two straight against Oklahoma St and arch-rival Texas A&M Wednesday night 61-51. Texas now takes on the 15-1 Missouri Tigers in Columbia. The Tigers have conference wins over Oklahoma and Iowa St Wednesday night 76-69. The only loss for Missouri came at Kansas St. Texas leads the series against Missouri 12-10. Texas won the last game in the series 71-58 last year in Austin. The series will\u00a0 most likely end after this season as Missouri moves to the SEC next year.<\/p>\n

Texas is coached by Rick Barnes. The Longhorns have non-conference wins over Boston University, Rhode Island, North Texas, UCLA, Temple, and Rice. Texas has additional losses to Oregon St, North Carolina St, and North Carolina.<\/p>\n

Missouri is coached by Frank Haith. Haith was an assistant under Barnes for 3 seasons in the early 2000’s. Missouri has wins over Notre Dame, California, Villanova, William & Mary, Illinois, and Old Dominion.<\/p>\n

Texas is outscoring opponents 76-63 this season. The Longhorns are shooting 45% from the field, and 32.6% from 3 point range. Texas makes 71.5% of their free throws. The Longhorns average 38 rebounds a game and have a rebounding margin of +3.9. Texas averages 13.1 assists, 13 turnovers, 4.3 blocks, and 7.4 steals a game. Texas opponents are shooting 37.8% from the field and 33.4% from 3 point range. The Longhorns force 14.9 turnovers a game.<\/p>\n

Texas guard J’Covan Brown averages 18.1 points, 3.4 rebounds, 4 assists, and 1.3 steals a game to tie for the team lead. Sheldon McClellan averages 11.8 points, 3.4 rebounds, and 1.1 steals a game. Myck Kabongo averages 9.6 points, 3.6 rebounds, 5.3 assists to lead the team, and 1.3 steals a game. Jonathan Holmes averages 8.8 points, and 5.4 rebounds a game. Julien Lewis averages 8.8 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 1.3 steals a game. Clint Chapman averages 5.8 rebounds and 1.7 blocks a game to lead the Longhorns in both categories.<\/p>\n

Missouri is outscoring opponents 84-62. The Tigers are shooting 51.1% from the field including 39.6% from 3 point range. Missouri makes 76.8% from the free throw line. The Tigers are fourth in scoring, first in field goal percentage, 20th in 3 point field goals, and 6th in free throw percentage nationally. Missouri averages 34.7 rebounds a game and has a rebounding margin of +3.3. The Tigers average 16.6 assists, 10.1 turnovers, 9.3 steals, and 3.1 blocks a game. Missouri opponents are shooting 41.2% from the field, and 32.6% from 3 point range. Missouri forces 15.7 turnovers a game.<\/p>\n

Missouri guard Marcus Denmon averages 17.9 points, 4.9 rebounds, 2.6 assists, and 1.5 steals a game. He shoots 43.4% from 3 point range. Kim English averages 15.1 points, 4.6 rebounds, 1.6 assists, and 1.3 steals a game. He makes 53% of his 3 point attempts. Ricardo Ratliffe averages 13.3 points, 6.9 rebounds, and 0.9 blocks a game. He leads the team in rebounds and blocks. Michael Dixon averages 12.8 points, 2 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.7 steals. Phil “Flip” Pressey averages 9.2 points, 3.3 rebounds, 5.8 assists, and 2 steals a game. He leads the team in assists and steals. Forward Laurence Bowers is out for the season with a knee injury.<\/p>\n

Missouri is 7-4 against the spread and the total is 6-5 this season. Texas is 3-8 ATS and the total is 4-7 this season. Texas is 9-3 ATS in the last 12 against Missouri. The Under is 6-2-1 in the last 9. The Longhorns are 6-2 ATS as an underdog, including 5-2 on the road, 9-4 as a road underdog of 7-12.5 points, 2-6 after failing to cover, 2-8 after a straight up win, 1-4 in road games, and overall, 2-9 against teams with winning records, 0-4 in Big 12 games, and on the road against teams with winning home records. The Tigers are 7-2 ATS at home against teams with losing road records, 6-2 against teams with winning records, 14-5 as a home favorite of 7-12.5 points, 36-15 as a home favorite, 7-3 overall, and as a favorite, 15-7 as a favorite of 7-12.5 points, 34-16-1 at home, and 2-5-1 against Big 12 teams.<\/p>\n

The last time Texas faced a team as talented as Missouri was four days before Christmas when the Longhorns were beaten soundly at North Carolina 82-63. I could see a similar score in this match-up. Missouri is one of the most talented teams in the country, and Texas isn’t quite as good as they have been in recent years.<\/p>\n

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Texas Longhorns at #9 Missouri Tigers Mizzou Arena – Columbia, Missouri Saturday, January 14, 2012, 1:00 pm Eastern, TV: ESPN2 Opening Line: Missouri -9 1\/2 Current Line: Missouri -10 Opening Total: 143 1\/2 Current Total: 143 1\/2 Opening Money Line: Missouri -600 \/ Texas +450 Current Money Line; Missouri -600 \/ Texas +450 Both Texas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40249,"featured_media":19769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3887,6030,2024,433,496],"class_list":["post-21045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-college-basketball-betting","tag-college-basketball-odds","tag-espn2","tag-missouri-tigers","tag-texas-longhorns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21045","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=21045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21053,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21045\/revisions\/21053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}