{"id":21647,"date":"2012-02-12T23:45:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T04:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21647"},"modified":"2012-02-12T18:51:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T23:51:45","slug":"college-basketball-predictions-iowa-state-cyclones-vs-baylor-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-predictions-iowa-state-cyclones-vs-baylor-bears-21647\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Predictions: Iowa State Cyclones vs. Baylor Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iowa State Cyclones at No. 6 Baylor Bears
\nMonday, 2\/13\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Baylor -8
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Baylor -8
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 140
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 140
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Baylor Bears have dropped back-to-back games heading into Monday night's contest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Iowa travels to nationally-ranked Baylor in a battle between third-place teams in the Big 12 Conference, while also looking to snap a five game losing streak in this series when playing in Waco.\u00a0 \u201cTheir length is ridiculous,\u201d commented Cyclones head coach Fred Hoiberg about playing Monday\u2019s opponent.\u00a0 The team has managed to cover four of the last five overall meetings, but dropped a 84-63 decision in its last trip to the Ferrell Center as 11.5-point underdogs on Feb. 3, 2010.\u00a0 Iowa State is 6-2 ATS as an underdog this year, while the \u201cunder\u201d is 5-4 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Cyclones lead all Big 12 teams and are tied for seventh nationally in averaging 8.9 3-pointers made per game.\u00a0 Iowa State is the only team in college basketball with four or more players with 40 3-pointers.\u00a0 Two starters are currently averaging in double figures, with sophomore forward Royce White leading the way in scoring 13.2 points and 9.4 rebounds per game.\u00a0 Senior guard Chris Allen is the other, as he\u2019s really come on of late, knocking down 11-of-18 shots from 3-point range in the past two games.<\/p>\n

Baylor will look to snap a two-game losing streak after dropping contests to the Kansas Jayhawks and Missouri Tigers, while also failing to cover the spread in five straight contests.\u00a0 The Bears tallied an impressive 77-65 win over the Oklahoma Sooners as 5.5-point road favorites on Jan. 24 to snap their only other losing streak this year.\u00a0 Since the start of the 2007-08 campaign, the program is a dominating 67-15 inside this venue, including a 41-6 mark in the last three seasons.\u00a0 Baylor is 4-8 ATS as a favorite this year.<\/p>\n

The Bears are 8-12 all-time in this series with the Cyclones and will be ranked when doing so for just the second time on Monday night.\u00a0 Sophomore forward Perry Jones III needs to break out of a recent shooting slump, scoring just nine points and hitting 3-of-20 shots in the back-to-back losses.\u00a0 He comes in averaging 13.8 points and 7.7 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Cyclones due to their 5-0-1 ATS mark in their last six road games, while the Bears are 0-6 ATS when playing on Monday.<\/p>\n

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Iowa State Cyclones at No. 6 Baylor Bears Monday, 2\/13\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Baylor -8 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Baylor -8 Opening Total:\u00a0 140 Current Total:\u00a0 140 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Iowa travels to nationally-ranked Baylor in a battle between third-place teams in the Big 12 Conference, while also looking to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3288,3267,4030,2666,5739],"class_list":["post-21647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-baylor-bears","tag-big-12-conference","tag-ferrell-center","tag-iowa-state-cyclones","tag-perry-jones-iii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21647","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=21647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21649,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21647\/revisions\/21649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}