{"id":21594,"date":"2012-02-09T12:40:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T17:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21594"},"modified":"2012-02-09T12:40:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T17:40:36","slug":"college-basketball-odds-mississippi-rebels-vs-mississippi-state-bulldogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-odds-mississippi-rebels-vs-mississippi-state-bulldogs-21594\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Odds: Mississippi Rebels vs. Mississippi State Bulldogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mississippi Rebels at No. 18 Mississippi State Bulldogs
\nThursday, 2\/9\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Mississippi St -7.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Mississippi St -8
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 134
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 135.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mississippi State forward Arnett Moultrie leads the SEC in rebounding entering Thursday night's game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mississippi needs six wins to reach 20 for the fifth time in the last six seasons and will be looking to sweep Mississippi State in a season series for the first time since 1998.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re a handful of possessions away from sitting here at 7-1 in conference play,\u201d stated Rebels head coach Andy Kennedy.\u00a0 The Rebels lead all conference teams in rebounding and rebounding margin.\u00a0 The program is 3-5 in true road games this year, including a 1-3 mark versus SEC teams.\u00a0 Mississippi State is 5-3 ATS versus conference opponents this year.<\/p>\n

The Rebels are 106-138 all-time in this series, which includes a dismal 24-90 mark in games played in Starkville.\u00a0 Mississippi has won four of 11 meetings against Mississippi State during the Kennedy era.\u00a0 Thursday night\u2019s game will be the program\u2019s fourth against a ranked opponent, going 1-2 in those contests.\u00a0 The program is 6-17 versus top-25 teams under his direction.<\/p>\n

Mississippi State has won three of its last four games and comes off a 91-88 victory over the Auburn Tigers as 11.5-point home favorites.\u00a0 The Bulldogs have gone \u201cover\u201d the total in four of their last five games.\u00a0 Junior forward Arnett Moultrie is definitely a player to watch, averaging 17.0 points and 11.0 rebounds per game.\u00a0 He leads the SEC in rebounding and double-doubles.\u00a0 The program is currently enjoying a 12-game home winning streak, which is the eighth best in school history.\u00a0 Mississippi State is 0-3 ATS as a home favorite of 6.5 to 9 points this year.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs have compiled a mediocre 91-86 mark in the month of February since the start of the 1987-88 campaign, which is definitely something to watch due to the amount of minutes starters are playing.\u00a0 Moultrie and two other players lead the SEC in playing 34 or more minutes per game.\u00a0 Mississippi State had its five-game win streak in the series snapped in dropping a 75-68 contest as two-point road favorites on Jan. 18, while going \u201cover\u201d the posted total of 130.5.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Bulldogs due to their 4-1-1 ATS mark on Thursdays, while the road team is 4-9 ATS in the last 13 meetings in this series.<\/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":"

Mississippi Rebels at No. 18 Mississippi State Bulldogs Thursday, 2\/9\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Mississippi St -7.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Mississippi St -8 Opening Total:\u00a0 134 Current Total:\u00a0 135.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Mississippi needs six wins to reach 20 for the fifth time in the last six seasons and will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[6386,6253,2865,2898,739],"class_list":["post-21594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-andy-kennedy","tag-arnett-moultrie","tag-mississippi-rebels","tag-mississippi-state-bulldogs","tag-sec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21594","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=21594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21595,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21594\/revisions\/21595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}