{"id":21618,"date":"2012-02-10T22:18:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T03:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21618"},"modified":"2012-02-10T22:18:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T03:18:51","slug":"college-basketball-odds-baylor-bears-vs-missouri-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-odds-baylor-bears-vs-missouri-tigers-21618\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Odds: Baylor Bears vs. Missouri Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 6 Baylor Bears at No. 4 Missouri Tigers
\nSaturday, 2\/11\/12, 1:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Missouri -6.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Missouri -6.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 147.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 147.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Missouri Tigers leads the Big 12 Conference in scoring 80.5 points per game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Baylor is looking to bounce back from a 68-54 loss to the Kansas Jayhawks as two-point home favorites, while the team has gone \u201cunder\u201d the total in three consecutive contests.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m most disappointed with the fight that we had,\u201d commented Bears head coach Scott Drew.\u00a0 The Bears are 2-10 all-time when laying at Missouri, including 10 straight losses that date back to Dec. 17, 1948.\u00a0 The program will definitely look to stay close in this affair, posting a 7-1 mark in games decided by five points or fewer this season.\u00a0 Baylor is 3-7 ATS versus conference opponents this year.<\/p>\n

The Bears have gotten off to strong starts in most of their games, trailing at the half only five times this season.\u00a0 Baylor is 10-1 away from home this season and will look to improve upon its current three-game Big 12 road winning streak, which is the longest in the Drew era.\u00a0 Sophomore forward Perry Jones III leads the team offensively, scoring 14.3 points and grabbing 7.7 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n

Missouri has won four games in a row since dropping a 79-72 contest to the Oklahoma State Cowboys as 8.5-point road favorites.\u00a0 The Tigers will be featured in a third top-10 matchup this season, posting wins over Baylor and Kansas.\u00a0 Forward Ricardo Ratliffe was a key player in the program\u2019s 89-88 win in the first game of this year\u2019s series, hitting 11-of-14 shots and grabbing eight rebounds.\u00a0 The senior averages 14.3 points and 6.8 rebounds per game.\u00a0 Missouri is 4-0 ATS as a home favorite of 6.5 to 9 points the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Tigers have also shown a great ability to pull out close affairs, tallying a 4-0 record in games decided by a single possession.\u00a0 Missouri leads the Big 12 in eight different statistical categories, including scoring 80.5 points per game, while outscoring opponents by 16.2 points a contest.\u00a0 Junior guard Michael Dixon has definitely been coming on, scoring 16.6 points a contest and shooting a team-best 69.2 percent from the floor over the past three games.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Tigers due to their 35-16-2 ATS mark at home, while the Bears are 2-9 ATS after a spread defeat.<\/p>\n

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No. 6 Baylor Bears at No. 4 Missouri Tigers Saturday, 2\/11\/12, 1:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Missouri -6.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Missouri -6.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 147.5 Current Total:\u00a0 147.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Baylor is looking to bounce back from a 68-54 loss to the Kansas Jayhawks as two-point home favorites, while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3288,3267,4156,433,5739],"class_list":["post-21618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-baylor-bears","tag-big-12-conference","tag-michael-dixon","tag-missouri-tigers","tag-perry-jones-iii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21618","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=21618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21619,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21618\/revisions\/21619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}