{"id":21496,"date":"2012-02-04T10:45:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T15:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21496"},"modified":"2012-02-04T10:28:05","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T15:28:05","slug":"college-basketball-predictions-arkansas-razorbacks-vs-lsu-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-predictions-arkansas-razorbacks-vs-lsu-tigers-21496\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Predictions: Arkansas Razorbacks vs. LSU Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arkansas Razorbacks at LSU Tigers
\nSaturday, 2\/4\/12, 1:45 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 LSU -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 LSU -4
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 133.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 136
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Arkansas Razorbacks are 9-2 ATS in their last 11 overall meetings with the LSU Tigers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Arkansas has won three of its last four games and comes off a superb effort in capturing an 82-74 decision against the Vanderbilt Commodores last time out.\u00a0 The Razorbacks have also gone \u201cover\u201d the total in two consecutive affairs.\u00a0 Offensively, the team nailed nine three-pointers versus one of the best perimeter defenses in the nation, but still allowed Vanderbilt to shoot 50 percent from the floor and forced just 11 turnovers.\u00a0 Arkansas is 7-16 ATS on the road the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Razorbacks really need to pick up some wins away from Bud Walton Arena, dropping all three Southeastern road games up to this point.\u00a0 Arkansas has dropped all five games overall on an opponent\u2019s home floor.\u00a0 \u201cI am disappointed in losing,\u201d commented Arkansas head coach Mike Anderson about the situation.\u00a0 \u201cThey will learn.\u00a0 They are young.\u201d\u00a0 Sophomore guard Rickey Scott has really come on offensively, scoring in double figures five times, while pouring in 18 points versus the Commodores.<\/p>\n

LSU has really seen its 2011-12 campaign slip away of late, dropping five of six games, with the only win coming in overtime over the Auburn Tigers on Jan. 17.\u00a0 The Tigers have gone \u201cover\u201d the total in five of their last seven games, while coming off a 74-50 blowout loss to the Kentucky Wildcats as 10-point home underdogs.\u00a0 \u201cWe just stopped fighting and stopped competing in the second half,\u201d stated Tigers head coach Trent Johnson.\u00a0 LSU will be seeking revenge from a 69-60 defeat to Arkansas as five-point road underdogs on Jan. 14.\u00a0 LSU is 4-3 ATS as a favorite this season.<\/p>\n

The Tigers have won the last three meetings in this series when playing in Baton Rouge, including a 56-53 victory as 2.5-point home underdogs on Jan. 12, 2011.\u00a0 LSU is averaging 66.4 points per game and is surrendering 62.8 points a contest.\u00a0 The scoring margin of +3.6 is a massive improvement from the two previous years, which resulted in -4.4 and -4.9 margins.\u00a0 Freshman point guard Anthony Hickey must have a big game on the perimeter in order to pick up a victory Saturday, as he\u2019s managed to hit 48.4 percent of his shots from three-point range during SEC action.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Razorbacks due to their 9-2-1 ATS mark in the last 12 meetings in the series, while the Tigers are 0-5 ATS when coming off a loss of 20 points or more.<\/p>\n

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Arkansas Razorbacks at LSU Tigers Saturday, 2\/4\/12, 1:45 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 LSU -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 LSU -4 Opening Total:\u00a0 133.5 Current Total:\u00a0 136 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Arkansas has won three of its last four games and comes off a superb effort in capturing an 82-74 decision against the Vanderbilt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[6091,2448,498,4010,6426,739,6177],"class_list":["post-21496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-anthony-hickey","tag-arkansas-razorbacks","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-mike-anderson","tag-rickey-scott","tag-sec","tag-trent-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21496","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=21496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21497,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21496\/revisions\/21497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}