{"id":21336,"date":"2012-01-28T11:48:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T16:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21336"},"modified":"2012-01-28T11:48:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T16:48:23","slug":"sec-basketball-picks-arkansas-razorbacks-vs-alabama-crimson-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/sec-basketball-picks-arkansas-razorbacks-vs-alabama-crimson-tide-21336\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC Basketball Picks: Arkansas Razorbacks vs. Alabama Crimson Tide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arkansas Razorbacks at Alabama Crimson Tide
\nSaturday, 1\/28\/12, 1:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Alabama -11
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Alabama -12
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 130.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 131.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Alabama Crimson Tide are poised to snap a four-game losing streak Saturday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Arkansas is still looking for its first road win of the year and will travel to Tuscaloosa to play inside Coleman Coliseum.\u00a0 The Razorbacks have won each of their last two games, including a 56-53 win over the Auburn Tigers as 9.5-point home favorites last time out, while posting a 4-0-1 \u201cunder\u201d mark over the past five contests.\u00a0 \u201cThat game was a grinder,\u201d commented Razorbacks head coach Mike Anderson.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m happy with the win.\u201d\u00a0 His defense is all about creating turnovers, leading teams to commit more than 17 miscues per game, including a pair of 20-plus turnover games against SEC foes.\u00a0 Arkansas is 6-16 ATS on the road the past two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Razorbacks haven\u2019t won inside Saturday\u2019s venue since the 2006-07 season, as home court has ruled each of the last four years, as the two teams have won at their arena.\u00a0 Arkansas is led offensively by sophomore guard Mardracus Wade, who is averaging 11.1 points per game, leading the SEC in three-point percentage.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is averaging 74.6 points per game, outscoring opponents by an 8.8-point margin per contest.<\/p>\n

Alabama hopes to end its current four-game losing streak and returns home for just the third time in the month of January.\u00a0 The Crimson Tide\u2019s current spell is the longest of the season and tied for the longest in head coach Anthony Grant\u2019s three seasons on campus.\u00a0 The Crimson Tide are coming off a disappointing 56-54 loss to the South Carolina Gamecocks as five-point road favorites, which came directly off a 77-71 loss to the Kentucky Wildcats as 10-point road underdogs.\u00a0 Alabama is 4-0 ATS as a home favorite of 9.5 to 12 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Crimson Tide are still one of the best defensive teams in the country despite their recent struggles as a team, allowing just 57.5 points per game, which is 12th-best in the nation.\u00a0 Trevor Releford has led the team in scoring in five of the last nine games, averaging 14.0 points per game.\u00a0 He will get help from JaMychal Green, who surpassed the 1,500 career point mark versus Kentucky.\u00a0 B.J. Young leads the team in scoring for the entire 2011-12 campaign, averaging 14.6 points a contest.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Crimson Tide due to their 7-1-1 ATS mark as a home favorite of 7 to 12.5 points, while the Razorbacks are 1-6 ATS as an underdog in the same range.<\/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":"

Arkansas Razorbacks at Alabama Crimson Tide Saturday, 1\/28\/12, 1:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Alabama -11 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Alabama -12 Opening Total:\u00a0 130.5 Current Total:\u00a0 131.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Arkansas is still looking for its first road win of the year and will travel to Tuscaloosa to play inside Coleman Coliseum.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[462,2448,6407,6334,5978,4010,739],"class_list":["post-21336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-arkansas-razorbacks","tag-b-j-young","tag-coleman-coliseum","tag-jamychal-green","tag-mike-anderson","tag-sec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21336","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=21336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21337,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21336\/revisions\/21337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}