{"id":21480,"date":"2012-02-04T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21480"},"modified":"2012-02-03T20:40:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T01:40:10","slug":"big-12-conference-basketball-kansas-jayhawks-vs-missouri-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/big-12-conference-basketball-kansas-jayhawks-vs-missouri-tigers-21480\/","title":{"rendered":"Big 12 Conference Basketball: Kansas Jayhawks vs. Missouri Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 8 Kansas Jayhawks at No. 4 Missouri Tigers
\nSaturday, 2\/4\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Missouri -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Missouri -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 147.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 147.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker
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The Missouri Tigers are slight home favorites against the Kansas Jayhawks Saturday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kansas travels to take on Missouri in a Border Showdown matchup and will look to win its sixth consecutive game in the Big 12 Conference series.\u00a0 The Jayhawks bounced back from a disappointing loss to the Iowa State Cyclones with a convincing 84-62 win over the Oklahoma Sooners as 17-point home favorites.\u00a0 The stakes have certainly been raised for Saturday night\u2019s contest, with Mizzou Arena being the setting for ESPN\u2019s College Gameday.\u00a0 The last time Kansas was ranked lower than Missouri in the series was March 1, 2009, which led to a 90-65 blowout win inside Allen Fieldhouse.\u00a0 Kansas is 1-4 ATS on Saturdays this season.<\/p>\n

The Jayhawks are 29-10 versus ranked foes since the 2006-07 season and 38-20 during Bill Self\u2019s tenure on the sidelines.\u00a0 Kansas is 18-4 overall and sits atop the Big 12 standings with an 8-1 mark.\u00a0 The team averages 75.6 points per game offensively, while holding teams to just 60.7 points, which leads to a scoring margin of 14.9 points per game.\u00a0 Self is 17-3 all-time against Missouri, including a 14-3 mark during his time in Lawrence.<\/p>\n

Missouri enters this contest on a two-game winning streak that includes an emotional 67-66 win over the Texas Longhorns as one-point road favorites.\u00a0 The Tigers have gone \u201cunder\u201d the total in their last two contests.\u00a0 \u201cWe cannot win any games except for Kansas and we had a great season,\u201d commented Tigers forward Ricardo Ratliffe.\u00a0 The program has met Saturday\u2019s opponent 15 times previously when both teams were ranked, posting a 6-9 record in those affairs.\u00a0 Missouri is 35-16-1 ATS in home games.<\/p>\n

The Tigers won their 20th game of the season last time out and have now done so in four straight campaigns for the third time in program history.\u00a0 Missouri leads the Big 12 in scoring 81.2 points per game, which has directly led to the squad outscoring opponents by a sizable 18.2-point margin.\u00a0 Senior guard Marcus Denmon is the main threat offensively, ranking third in the conference in scoring 17.2 points per game.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Jayhawks due to their 6-0-1 ATS mark in the last seven meetings, while the Tigers are 1-3-1 ATS when hosting in this series.<\/p>\n

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No. 8 Kansas Jayhawks at No. 4 Missouri Tigers Saturday, 2\/4\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Missouri -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Missouri -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 147.5 Current Total:\u00a0 147.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Kansas travels to take on Missouri in a Border Showdown matchup and will look to win its sixth consecutive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3267,3565,34,6424,433,4073],"class_list":["post-21480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-12-conference","tag-espn-college-gameday","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-marcus-demon","tag-missouri-tigers","tag-mizzou-arena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21480","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=21480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21482,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21480\/revisions\/21482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}