{"id":21557,"date":"2012-02-07T11:38:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T16:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21557"},"modified":"2012-02-07T11:38:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T16:38:48","slug":"sec-basketball-preview-alabama-crimson-tide-vs-auburn-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/sec-basketball-preview-alabama-crimson-tide-vs-auburn-tigers-21557\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC Basketball Preview: Alabama Crimson Tide vs. Auburn Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alabama Crimson Tide at Auburn Tigers
\nTuesday, 2\/7\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Alabama -5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Alabama -5.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 117
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 120
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Auburn Tigers have played great basketball inside Auburn Arena this year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alabama returns to the road for the first time in nearly two weeks when it faces Auburn in the first of two games in the 2011-12 series.\u00a0 The Crimson Tide have won two straight games, but have failed to cover the spread in five of their last six contests.\u00a0 The program leads this particular series by an 87-56 margin, with the series being 25-25 in games played in Auburn.\u00a0 Defense is the key to the program\u2019s success this year, sitting 14th in the country in allowing just 58.3 points per game, which is the second-best mark among SEC schools.\u00a0 Alabama is 7-10 ATS as a favorite this year.<\/p>\n

The Crimson Tide have been getting incredible production out of their bench over the past three games, as the reserves have averaged 28.3 points per game in those contests.\u00a0 Trevor Releford is certainly a player to watch in this contest, averaging 13.7 points over his last six games.\u00a0 Senior forward JaMychal Green is still the leading scorer offensively, coming in averaging 13.8 points per game, while also being the conference\u2019s leader in career double-doubles.<\/p>\n

Auburn has dropped three of its last four games overall, but bettors should realize that the program has won its last three SEC home games since dropping a 68-53 contest to the Kentucky Wildcats as 17.5-point underdogs on Jan. 11.\u00a0 The Tigers are scoring 58.6 points per game, while surrendering 64.4 points a contest, which has led to getting outscored by 5.9 points a game.\u00a0 Shooting free throws is definitely not a strength of the team, hitting just 66.9 percent of its attempts from the charity stripe.\u00a0 Auburn is 5-1 ATS at home this season.<\/p>\n

The Tigers have won six of their last 10 meetings with the Crimson Tide, but dropped a 68-58 decision in last year\u2019s game in front of the home fans.\u00a0 Auburn is 12-1 inside Auburn Arena this year, which would be the team\u2019s best home record in 12 years if the season ended today.\u00a0 Two starters are currently averaging double figures offensively, with senior forward Kenny Gabriel leading the way in scoring 12.3 points and grabbing 8.0 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Tigers due to their 37-15-2 ATS mark versus conference opponents, while the Crimson Tide are 1-5 ATS in the same situation.<\/p>\n

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Alabama Crimson Tide at Auburn Tigers Tuesday, 2\/7\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Alabama -5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Alabama -5.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 117 Current Total:\u00a0 120 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Alabama returns to the road for the first time in nearly two weeks when it faces Auburn in the first of two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[462,6127,470,5978,6432,739],"class_list":["post-21557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-auburn-arena","tag-auburn-tigers","tag-jamychal-green","tag-kenny-gabriel","tag-sec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21557","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=21557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21558,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21557\/revisions\/21558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}