{"id":21139,"date":"2012-01-17T23:30:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T04:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21139"},"modified":"2012-01-17T18:33:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T23:33:24","slug":"college-basketball-picks-mississippi-state-bulldogs-vs-mississippi-rebels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-mississippi-state-bulldogs-vs-mississippi-rebels-21139\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Mississippi State Bulldogs vs. Mississippi Rebels"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 15 Mississippi State Bulldogs at Ole Miss Rebels
\nWednesday, 1\/18\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Mississippi State -2.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Mississippi State -2.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 131
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 131
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Mississippi State Bulldogs are 20-7 SU versus the Mississippi Rebels during the Rick Stansbury era<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mississippi State has played more games against Mississippi than any other opponent, as the team looks to win its sixth-straight game in this series.\u00a0 The Rebels are hoping that senior guard Dee Bost will regain his shooting touch Wednesday night, as he was 7-of-37 (18.9 percent) in the previous seven games before Saturday\u2019s 56-52 win over the Alabama Crimson Tide as 1.5-point home underdogs.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that the squad has covered just one of its last four games.\u00a0 Mississippi State is 6-1 ATS on the road.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs are 20-7 against the Rebels during the Rick Stansbury era, while also being fourth in the Southeastern Conference with 38 road wins since the 1999 season.\u00a0 Mississippi State will definitely want to get the ball into the hands of junior forward Arnett Moultrie, posting a 9-0 record when he records a double-double this season.\u00a0 Moultrie and Bost are two of the conference\u2019s top-five scorers.<\/p>\n

Mississippi has alternated wins and losses over its last five games and comes off a disappointing 69-68 overtime loss to the Auburn Tigers as one-point road favorites.\u00a0 The Rebels got off to a bad start shooting against the Tigers, but regrouped a bit in knocking down 41.2 percent of their shots in the final 20 minutes.\u00a0 \u201cWe missed a bunch of thos that we normally make,\u201d commented Rebels guard Nick Williams.\u00a0 Under current head coach Andy Kennedy, the program has tallied a perfect 14-0 record in SEC home games on Wednesdays.\u00a0 Mississippi is 23-7 ATS when playing on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The Rebels lead all SEC teams in rebounding and rebounding margin during conference play, as they were glad to have junior forward Murphy Holloway return to the lineup after missing three games earlier.\u00a0 He scored 19 points and grabbed 14 rebounds in Mississippi\u2019s 71-63 win over Arkansas as two-point home favorites two games back.\u00a0 There\u2019s no question that the squad loves playing inside Tad Smith Coliseum, coming in as one of just three SEC teams with an undefeated home record\u2014joining Florida and Kentucky in that group.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Bulldogs due to their 5-0 ATS mark in the last five meetings, while the Rebels have dropped five of their last six games versus the number.<\/p>\n

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No. 15 Mississippi State Bulldogs at Ole Miss Rebels Wednesday, 1\/18\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Mississippi State -2.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Mississippi State -2.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 131 Current Total:\u00a0 131 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Mississippi State has played more games against Mississippi than any other opponent, as the team looks to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[6253,5676,2865,2898,5892,6252,3875],"class_list":["post-21139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-arnett-moultrie","tag-dee-bost","tag-mississippi-rebels","tag-mississippi-state-bulldogs","tag-murphy-holloway","tag-rick-stansbury","tag-southeastern-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21139","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=21139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21140,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21139\/revisions\/21140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}