{"id":21111,"date":"2012-01-16T11:11:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T16:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21111"},"modified":"2012-01-16T11:11:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T16:11:12","slug":"ncaa-basketball-picks-texas-am-aggies-vs-missouri-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-picks-texas-am-aggies-vs-missouri-tigers-21111\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Picks: Texas A&M Aggies vs. Missouri Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas A&M Aggies at No. 9 Missouri Tigers
\nMonday, 1\/16\/12, 5:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Missouri -15.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Missouri -16
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 132
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 133
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Missouri Tigers senior class is 61-3 inside Mizzou Arena during their careers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Texas A&M snapped a three-game losings streak by picking up a 67-54 win over the Texas Tech Red Raiders as 11-point home favorites, while going \u2018over\u2019 the total for the first time in five opportunities.\u00a0 The Aggies knew they would have a tall mountain to climb if they opened Big 12 Conference play with four consecutive losses.\u00a0 \u201cCouldn\u2019t go 0-4,\u201d commented Aggies senior guard Dash Harris.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s tough being 1-3, but just knowing that we needed this win, pretty much back against the wall.\u00a0 That\u2019s what we needed.\u201d\u00a0 Texas A&M is 13-7 ATS on the road the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Aggies were extremely balanced in their last contest, as five players scored in double figures.\u00a0 Texas A&M leads the conference in three defensive categories, which include scoring defense, three-point field goal percentage defense and defensive rebounds percentage.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that the team\u2019s losses this year have come to teams with a combined 80-24 record in games played thru Jan. 14.<\/p>\n

Missouri will put its 16-1 record on the line Monday afternoon and will be looking for a similar MLK Day performance that it put on a year ago.\u00a0 The Tigers handed the Kansas State Wildcats a convincing 75-59 loss in front of a sold-out crowd in that contest.\u00a0 The team has won two games in a row since suffering its first loss, picking up an 84-73 victory over the Texas Longhorns as 9.5-point home favorites last time out.\u00a0 Leading scorer Marcus Denmon had 18 points and a career-high 11 rebounds in the game.\u00a0 Missouri is 4-1 ATS at home this year.<\/p>\n

The Tigers are off to their best start since the 1981-82 season and the senior class is a dominating 61-3 inside Mizzou Arena in their careers.\u00a0 Missouri has won its first 10 games at home this season.\u00a0 Offensively, the team ranks second nationally in field goal percentage at 51.2 percent, trailing only the Creighton Blue Jays.\u00a0 Denmon ranks second in the Big 12 in scoring 17.9 points a game and has gotten some help off the bench from junior Mike Dixon.\u00a0 He is averaging 12.2 points and 2.8 assists as one of the nation\u2019s best options off the bench.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Aggies due to their 7-0 ATS mark as a road underdog of 13 or more points, while the Tigers are 1-10 ATS in the last 11 meetings.<\/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":"

Texas A&M Aggies at No. 9 Missouri Tigers Monday, 1\/16\/12, 5:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Missouri -15.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Missouri -16 Opening Total:\u00a0 132 Current Total:\u00a0 133 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Texas A&M snapped a three-game losings streak by picking up a 67-54 win over the Texas Tech Red Raiders as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3267,5744,6356,5805,433,4073,6357,1145],"class_list":["post-21111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-12-conference","tag-cbb","tag-dash-harris","tag-marcus-denmon","tag-missouri-tigers","tag-mizzou-arena","tag-mlk-day","tag-texas-am-aggies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21111","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=21111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21112,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21111\/revisions\/21112"}],"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=21111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}