{"id":21286,"date":"2012-01-26T11:45:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T16:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21286"},"modified":"2012-01-26T11:45:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T16:45:15","slug":"college-basketball-odds-florida-gators-vs-mississippi-rebels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-odds-florida-gators-vs-mississippi-rebels-21286\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Odds: Florida Gators vs. Mississippi Rebels"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 13 Florida Gators at Mississippi Rebels
\nThursday, 1\/26\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Florida -6
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Florida -5.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 138.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 138.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Florida Gators are one of the best offensive teams in college basketball<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Florida has won three consecutive games and will now look to improve upon its 59-42 record in the all-time series with Mississippi.\u00a0 The Gators are 12-6 versus the Rebels during the Billy Donovan era, with three of the past four games in the series being decided by six points or less.\u00a0 Offensively, the team has all five starters averaging in double figures, with guard Kenny Boynton leading the way in scoring 18.3 points per game.\u00a0 Florida is 6-6 ATS as a favorite this year and the \u201cover\u201d is 10-2 in that particular situation.<\/p>\n

The Gators rank seventh nationally in averaging 82.2 points per game, while leading the Southeastern Conference in that category.\u00a0 Florida relies heavily on the three-point shot, hitting 10 or more shots from beyond the arc in 13 games this year.\u00a0 Guard play is the team\u2019s strength, with its trio averaging a combined 45.3 points per game.\u00a0 Erving Walker \u00a0 is responsible for directing the offense and is tied for the conference lead with 4.9 assists.<\/p>\n

Mississippi is one of three SEC teams that come into Thursday night\u2019s action with an undefeated record, as the program has registered an impressive 80-15 mark inside Tad Smith Coliseum under the direction of head coach Andy Kennedy.\u00a0 The Rebels are 11-2 when their opponent shoots below 40 percent from the field, which will be a tough number to achieve against the Gators.\u00a0 The program has won and covered the last two games, while the \u201cover\u201d has cashed in the last three games.\u00a0 Mississippi is 17-15 ATS at home the past two-plus campaigns.<\/p>\n

The Rebels have been ecstatic about the play of junior forward Murphy Holloway, who returned from a three-game absence with a sprained ankle, as the team is 12-3 this year when he plays the whole game.\u00a0 Three starters are currently averaging in double figures scoring, with senior forward Terrance Henry leading the way in scoring 11.5 points per game.\u00a0 Mississippi has moved up to No. 34 in the nation in the latest RPI rankings, which is actually two spots ahead of Florida.\u00a0 The program has tallied a 4-5 record against teams with an RPI of 100 or better.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Rebels due to their 9-3 ATS mark as a home underdog, while the Gators are 2-7 ATS as a road favorite.<\/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":"

No. 13 Florida Gators at Mississippi Rebels Thursday, 1\/26\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Florida -6 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Florida -5.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 138.5 Current Total:\u00a0 138.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Florida has won three consecutive games and will now look to improve upon its 59-42 record in the all-time series with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[6386,499,5741,2865,5892,3875,6385],"class_list":["post-21286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-andy-kennedy","tag-florida-gators","tag-kenny-boynton","tag-mississippi-rebels","tag-murphy-holloway","tag-southeastern-conference","tag-tad-smith-coliseum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21286","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=21286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21287,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21286\/revisions\/21287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}