{"id":21689,"date":"2012-02-16T11:22:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T16:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21689"},"modified":"2012-02-16T11:22:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T16:22:57","slug":"college-basketball-predictions-vanderbilt-commodores-vs-mississippi-rebels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-predictions-vanderbilt-commodores-vs-mississippi-rebels-21689\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Predictions: Vanderbilt Commodores vs. Mississippi Rebels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vanderbilt Commodores at Mississippi Rebels
\nThursday, 2\/16\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Vanderbilt -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Vanderbilt -3.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 132
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 132.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Mississippi Rebels are a dangerous home underdog on Thursday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vanderbilt has lost three of its last four games and will look to bounce back from a deflating 69-63 loss to the Kentucky Wildcats as 4.5-point home underdogs.\u00a0 \u201cWe had several opportunities,\u201d commented Commodores head coach Kevin Stallings.\u00a0 \u201cWe just didn\u2019t take advantage of them.\u201d\u00a0 The Commodores are the only team in the Southeastern Conference that sports three 1,000-point scorers, with the trio being led by John Jenkins.\u00a0 He averages 19.5 points per game on 47.7 percent shooting.\u00a0 Vanderbilt is 19-7 ATS on the road the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Commodores lead this all-time series, 73-39, including wins in nine out of the last 10 meetings.\u00a0 Playing Vanderbilt in the opening 20 minutes might not be a bad move, as the program has trailed at the half in just two SEC games this year.\u00a0 The team is currently in a third-place tie with Mississippi State in the conference standings, while sitting just a game behind second-place Florida.<\/p>\n

Mississippi snapped a two-game losing streak in tallying a 61-54 win over the Auburn Tigers as 7.5-point home favorites, while going \u201cunder\u201d the total for the second consecutive game.\u00a0 \u201cWe defended much better in the second half, and we turned them over,\u201d commented Rebels head coach Andy Kennedy about the performance.\u00a0 He has led the program to a solid 82-16 mark in games played inside Tad Smith Coliseum during his time on the sidelines.\u00a0 Mississippi is 9-11 ATS and the \u201cunder\u201d is 12-10 on the season.<\/p>\n

The Rebels actually lead the SEC in team rebounding and rebounding margin during league play, while ranking 38th nationally in field-goal percentage defense.\u00a0 Mississippi is 50th in the nation in the latest RPI rankings, coming in with a 2-6 record against such opponents.\u00a0 That mark could improve with Vanderbilt sitting at 29th this week.\u00a0 This particular series has been all about location of the game over the years, with the home team prevailing in 21 of the last 25 meetings.\u00a0 Much of the team\u2019s success on the boards is due to ranking as the ninth-tallest team in the country, with Murphy Holloway leading the way in grabbing 9.2 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Rebels due to their 7-2 ATS mark as a home underdog, while the Commodores are 4-11-1 ATS as a favorite of 6.5 points or less.<\/p>\n

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Vanderbilt Commodores at Mississippi Rebels Thursday, 2\/16\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Vanderbilt -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Vanderbilt -3.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 132 Current Total:\u00a0 132.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Vanderbilt has lost three of its last four games and will look to bounce back from a deflating 69-63 loss to the Kentucky […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[6386,5760,2865,739,6385,456],"class_list":["post-21689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-andy-kennedy","tag-john-jenkins","tag-mississippi-rebels","tag-sec","tag-tad-smith-coliseum","tag-vanderbilt-commodores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21689","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=21689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21690,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21689\/revisions\/21690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}