{"id":21401,"date":"2012-01-31T23:30:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T04:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21401"},"modified":"2012-01-31T20:20:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T01:20:44","slug":"big-12-conference-basketball-baylor-bears-vs-texas-am-aggies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/big-12-conference-basketball-baylor-bears-vs-texas-am-aggies-21401\/","title":{"rendered":"Big 12 Conference Basketball: Baylor Bears vs. Texas A&M Aggies"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 6 Baylor Bears at Texas A&M Aggies
\nWednesday, 2\/1\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Baylor -7.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Baylor -7.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 130
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 130
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Baylor Bears are 6-2 ATS in their last eight trips to College Station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Baylor aims to complete its second consecutive series sweep of Texas A&M when the two teams square off Wednesday night inside Reed Arena in College Station.\u00a0 The Bears enter on a two-game winning streak that directly followed a two-game losing streak.\u00a0 The program is 12-4 in its last 16 games against its three in-state Big 12 opponents, while enjoying its best ever start with a 19-2 record.\u00a0 Sophomore forward Perry Jones III is the star of the show, averaging a team-high 14.7 points per game.\u00a0 He\u2019s a big reason why the team enters with a conference-best 5-1 record on the road, scoring 17.5 points a contest.\u00a0 Baylor is 14-10 ATS away from home the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Bears are definitely one of the more talented teams in the nation and rank eighth in field-goal percentage, while sitting 13th in scoring margin.\u00a0 Baylor has won four straight games over Texas A&M in this particular series, but has split the last four games in tonight\u2019s venue.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that the school\u2019s last three wins at Texas A&M have been overtime games.<\/p>\n

Texas A&M has alternated wins and losses over its last six games, coming off an impressive 76-61 win over the Oklahoma State Cowboys as 4.5-point home favorites.\u00a0 The Aggies have also switched going \u201cover\u201d and \u201cunder\u201d the total in each of those contests.\u00a0 The program will be seeking revenge from a 61-52 loss in the first meeting this season as 13.5-point road underdogs.\u00a0 \u201cI think we were a little intimidated in the first half,\u201d commented Aggies head coach Bill Kennedy about the first meeting.\u00a0 Texas A&M is 3-0 ATS this year when revenging a road loss versus an opponent this year.<\/p>\n

The Aggies lead the Big 12 in two defensive categories, which are scoring defense and three-point field-goal percentage defense.\u00a0 Texas A&M held Oklahoma State to just 37.9 percent shooting from the floor last time out.\u00a0 Five of the program\u2019s eight losses this year have come to teams currently ranked in the top 20 nationally.\u00a0 Facing tonight\u2019s opponent isn\u2019t a good matchup for the team, with the offense scoring 46.3 percent of its points inside the paint during the 2011-12 season thus far.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Bears due to their 6-2 ATS mark in the last eight meetings in College Station, while the Aggies are 2-5 ATS following a straight-up win.<\/p>\n

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No. 6 Baylor Bears at Texas A&M Aggies Wednesday, 2\/1\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Baylor -7.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Baylor -7.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 130 Current Total:\u00a0 130 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Baylor aims to complete its second consecutive series sweep of Texas A&M when the two teams square off Wednesday night […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3288,3267,5739,4117,1145],"class_list":["post-21401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-baylor-bears","tag-big-12-conference","tag-perry-jones-iii","tag-reed-arena","tag-texas-am-aggies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21401","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=21401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21403,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21401\/revisions\/21403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}