{"id":21141,"date":"2012-01-17T23:45:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T04:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21141"},"modified":"2012-01-17T19:31:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T00:31:27","slug":"missouri-valley-conference-basketball-creighton-blue-jays-vs-missouri-state-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/missouri-valley-conference-basketball-creighton-blue-jays-vs-missouri-state-bears-21141\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Valley Conference Basketball: Creighton Blue Jays vs. Missouri State Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 18 Creighton Blue Jays at Missouri State Bears
\nWednesday, 1\/18\/12, 8:05 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Creighton -1
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Creighton -1
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 146
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 146
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Creighton Blue Jays have lost six consecutive games against the Missouri State Bears<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Creighton has won six straight games since suffering a 77-65 loss to Wednesday night\u2019s opponent as 10-point home favorites on Dec. 28.\u00a0 The Blue Jays are led by Doug McDermott offensively, as he ranks among the nation\u2019s scoring leaders in averaging 24.3 points per game.\u00a0 \u201cHe\u2019s done some special things,\u201d commented Blue Jays head coach Greg McDermott.\u00a0 \u201cHe\u2019s playing with unselfish guys who know his capabilities.\u201d\u00a0 Other players will definitely need to get involved in the scoring against tonight\u2019s opponent, with the team shooting a season-low 38.2 percent in the first meeting this year.\u00a0 Creighton is 6-2 ATS in its last eight road games.<\/p>\n

The Blue Jays ranked among the national leaders in most offensive categories, including first in field-goal percentage and three-point percentage.\u00a0 Creighton never trailed in a 90-71 win over Southern Illinois as 13.5-point home favorites on Sunday, while going \u2018over\u2019 the total in three of its last four games.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that Creighton has lost the last six meetings in this series, but has led at the half in the past four meetings.<\/p>\n

Missouri State is coming off back-to-back heartbreaking losses in Missouri Valley Conference play, dropping an 87-82 overtime contest to the Evansville Aces as 10-point home favorites last time out.\u00a0 The Bears are the defending conference champions and are led offensively by senior forward Kyle Weems scoring 16.1 points per game.\u00a0 He is the reigning Player of the Year in the conference and registered 31 points in the team\u2019s 77-65 upset win over Creighton.\u00a0 Missouri State is 5-2 ATS in its last seven conference games.<\/p>\n

The Bears are very good in taking care of the basketball, ranking 13th nationally in giving up just 11.1 turnovers per game, while also ranking 39th in field goal percentage defense.\u00a0 Missouri State is still just 6-18 all-time against ranked competition, including a 1-6 mark when hosting.\u00a0 If the game is close down the stretch, the squad actually hit 33-of-41 free-throw attempts over the weekend, moving up to 40th nationally in that category.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Blue Jays due to their 12-4-1 ATS mark in the last 17 series meetings, while the Bears are 5-13-2 ATS at home.<\/p>\n

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No. 18 Creighton Blue Jays at Missouri State Bears Wednesday, 1\/18\/12, 8:05 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 N\/A Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Creighton -1 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Creighton -1 Opening Total:\u00a0 146 Current Total:\u00a0 146 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Creighton has won six straight games since suffering a 77-65 loss to Wednesday night\u2019s opponent as 10-point home favorites […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4575,5798,6362,6361,4516],"class_list":["post-21141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-creighton-blue-jays","tag-doug-mcdermott","tag-kyle-weems","tag-missouri-state-bears","tag-missouri-valley-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21141","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=21141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21142,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21141\/revisions\/21142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}