{"id":21758,"date":"2012-02-20T21:05:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T02:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21758"},"modified":"2012-02-20T21:05:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T02:05:24","slug":"college-basketball-predictions-kansas-state-wildcats-vs-missouri-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-predictions-kansas-state-wildcats-vs-missouri-tigers-21758\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Predictions: Kansas State Wildcats vs. Missouri Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kansas State Wildcats at No. 3 Missouri Tigers
\nTuesday, 2\/21\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Missouri -9.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Missouri -9.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 140.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 140.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Missouri Tigers have tallied a perfect 15-0 record inside Mizzou Arena this year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kansas State will be facing its third straight top-10 opponent on Tuesday night and will look to sweep its 2011-12 series with the Missouri Tigers.\u00a0 The Wildcats tallied a 75-59 win as one-point home underdogs on Jan. 7, which was also the Tigers first loss of the year.\u00a0 The team is certainly feeling good about itself after picking up a 57-56 win over the Baylor Bears as 7.5-point road underdogs on Saturday.\u00a0 \u201cTo come to their building and win this game, it feels great,\u201d stated Wildcats point guard Angel Rodriguez.\u00a0 Kansas State is 0-2 ATS as an underdog of 9.5 to 12 points the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats haven\u2019t faced back-to-back top-10 opponents on the road since losses to No. 2 Kansas and No. 3 Missouri in February 1990.\u00a0 Kansas State has compiled a 19-20 road record versus Big 12 opponents under head coach Frank Martin since the 2007-08 season.\u00a0 He is 5-4 overall in this series, but has lost all four games when playing inside Mizzou Arena.\u00a0 In the first meeting this year, the Wildcats hit 49.1 percent of its shots from the field, including 58.6 percent in the first half.<\/p>\n

Missouri has rattled off seven wins in a row since its last defeat and has gone \u201cover\u201d the total in two consecutive games.\u00a0 The Tigers return home after picking up a solid 71-62 win over the Texas A&M Aggies as seven-point road favorites.\u00a0 \u201cThey move the ball so well, and they\u2019re so disciplined offensively,\u201d commented Aggies head coach Billy Kennedy about the Tigers.\u00a0 Senior guard Marcus Denmon leads the charge, averaging 17.8 points per game.\u00a0 Missouri is 12-6 ATS as a favorite and the \u201cover\u201d is 10-8 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Tigers are third nationally and pace the Big 12 in shooting 50.3 percent from the floor, but were held to a season-low 32.7 percent shooting versus the Wildcats in Manhattan.\u00a0 Missouri is looking to push its record to 26-2 for the first time in school history with a victory in this prime-time contest.\u00a0 Revenge is likely to occur in this affair due to the senior class compiling a 66-3 record inside tonight\u2019s venue, including a 15-0 mark this year.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Tigers due to the home team being 13-3-1 ATS in the last 17 meetings, while the Wildcats are 1-8 ATS versus winning teams.<\/p>\n

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Kansas State Wildcats at No. 3 Missouri Tigers Tuesday, 2\/21\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Missouri -9.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Missouri -9.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 140.5 Current Total:\u00a0 140.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Kansas State will be facing its third straight top-10 opponent on Tuesday night and will look to sweep its 2011-12 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3267,3946,2807,5805,433,4073],"class_list":["post-21758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-12-conference","tag-frank-martin","tag-kansas-state-wildcats","tag-marcus-denmon","tag-missouri-tigers","tag-mizzou-arena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21758","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=21758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21759,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21758\/revisions\/21759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}