{"id":21538,"date":"2012-02-06T10:28:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T15:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21538"},"modified":"2012-02-06T10:28:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T15:28:03","slug":"college-basketball-picks-missouri-tigers-vs-oklahoma-sooners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-missouri-tigers-vs-oklahoma-sooners-21538\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Missouri Tigers vs. Oklahoma Sooners"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 4 Missouri Tigers at Oklahoma Sooners
\nMonday, 2\/6\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Missouri -6
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Missouri -4.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 146
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 145
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Oklahoma Sooners are home underdogs against the Missouri Tigers Monday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Missouri moved into a three-way tie for first place in the Big 12 Conference standings with a thrilling 74-71 victory over the Kansas Jayhawks as three-point home favorites.\u00a0 The Tigers have won seven of their last eight games, but have gone just 3-2-2 ATS over that span.\u00a0 \u201cYou can\u2019t just sit here and say the matchup with Kansas was an ordinary game because it\u2019s not,\u201d commented Tigers guard Michael Dixon.\u00a0 Senior guard Marcus Denmon certainly led the charge offensively, scoring 29 points on 10-of-16 shooting from the floor.\u00a0 Missouri is 5-3 ATS as a road favorite of 3.5 to 6 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Tigers have tallied an 8-2 mark in their first 10 league games, which is currently the best conference start since the 2008-09 season.\u00a0 Missouri has also won four true road games this season and eight games away from Mizzou Arena, which is much better than tallying just two true road wins all of last year.\u00a0 Offensively, the team leads the Big 12 in scoring 80.9 points per game, while surrendering just 67.1 points in the same situation.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma will try and snap a two-game losing streak Monday night when hosting Missouri inside the Lloyd Noble Center, coming off a 77-70 loss to the Iowa State Cyclones as three-point home favorites.\u00a0 The Sooners have failed to cover five of six games, while going \u201cover\u201d the total in their last two contests.\u00a0 \u201cWe have got to keep working,\u201d commented Sooners first-year head coach Lon Kruger.\u00a0 \u201cWe have a long way to go.\u201d\u00a0 The program has dropped three straight games in this series to ranked Missouri teams, including the last two by a combined 61 points.\u00a0 Oklahoma is 8-11 ATS on the year.<\/p>\n

The Sooners have three starters that average in double figures, with junior guard Steven Pledger leading the way in scoring 17.6 points per game.\u00a0 He ranks fourth in scoring in the Big 12 and leads the way in hitting 2.7 three-point shots per game.\u00a0 Oklahoma holds a 112-96 all-time advantage in this series, including wins in seven of the last nine when playing at home.\u00a0 The team is the only school in the Big 12 with three players ranked in the top 15 in scoring in league play.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Sooners due to the home team being 6-0 ATS in the last six meetings in this series, while the Tigers are 18-40-1 ATS on the road.<\/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. 4 Missouri Tigers at Oklahoma Sooners Monday, 2\/6\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Missouri -6 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Missouri -4.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 146 Current Total:\u00a0 145 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Missouri moved into a three-way tie for first place in the Big 12 Conference standings with a thrilling 74-71 victory over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3267,6429,5805,4156,433,408,6054],"class_list":["post-21538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-12-conference","tag-lloyd-noble-center","tag-marcus-denmon","tag-michael-dixon","tag-missouri-tigers","tag-oklahoma-sooners","tag-steven-pledger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21538","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=21538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21540,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21538\/revisions\/21540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}