{"id":21815,"date":"2012-02-24T20:17:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T01:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21815"},"modified":"2012-02-24T20:17:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T01:17:51","slug":"college-basketball-predictions-vanderbilt-commodores-vs-kentucky-wildcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-predictions-vanderbilt-commodores-vs-kentucky-wildcats-21815\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Predictions: Vanderbilt Commodores vs. Kentucky Wildcats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vanderbilt Commodores at No. 1 Kentucky Wildcats
\nSaturday, 2\/24\/12, 12:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kentucky -11.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Kentucky -11.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 138.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 138.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Kentucky Wildcats have won 50 consecutive home games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vanderbilt has rattled off three consecutive wins since dropping a 69-63 decision to the Kentucky Wildcats as 4.5-point home underdogs.\u00a0 The Commodores have been fantastic on the road during Southeastern Conference play over the last four years, picking up 16 wins in that span.\u00a0 Junior guard John Jenkins is definitely the player to watch offensively, leading all conference players in scoring 19.2 points per game.\u00a0 He has scored 20-plus points in three consecutive games.\u00a0 Vanderbilt is 21-7 ATS on the road over the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Commodores are 44-135 in this particular series against the Wildcats, including a 14-78 mark in games played in Lexington.\u00a0 Vanderbilt has a ton of experience on its roster, especially within the starting five, as that particular group has amassed 416 career starts.\u00a0 Rupp Arena is the only arena that the senior class has not won in.\u00a0 \u201cI didn\u2019t know that,\u201d commented Commodores center Festus Ezeli about not winning inside Saturday\u2019s venue.\u00a0 \u201cLast year, we got close, we lost by a point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kentucky enters this SEC showdown with the nation\u2019s longest active win streak of 19 games, coming off a solid 73-64 win over the Mississippi State Bulldogs as 9.5-point road favorites.\u00a0 The Wildcats have five players averaging double figures in scoring, with freshman center Anthony Davis leading the way in averaging 13.8 points per game.\u00a0 The program also owns the nation\u2019s longest home winning streak at 50 games, including 49 of those wins inside Rupp.\u00a0 Kentucky is 1-5 ATS as a home favorite of 9.5 to 12 points and the \u201cunder\u201d is 4-2 in that particular situation the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats are a dominating 67-2 when playing at home as the top-ranked team, which should fit nicely with the Commodores being winless in eight tries away from home versus the nation\u2019s No. 1 squad.\u00a0 Kentucky\u2019s 13-0 start in conference play is the program\u2019s best start in league play since the 2003 team ran the table in the league.\u00a0 Defensively, the team leads the SEC in allowing just 58.2 points per game, while also pacing all squads in allowing opponents to shoot 36.3 percent from the field.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Commodores due to their 7-2 ATS mark on the road against winning home teams, while the Wildcats are 3-12-1 ATS in their last 16 home games.<\/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":"

Vanderbilt Commodores at No. 1 Kentucky Wildcats Saturday, 2\/24\/12, 12:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kentucky -11.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Kentucky -11.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 138.5 Current Total:\u00a0 138.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Vanderbilt has rattled off three consecutive wins since dropping a 69-63 decision to the Kentucky Wildcats as 4.5-point home underdogs.\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[5659,5760,876,4116,3875,456],"class_list":["post-21815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-anthony-davis","tag-john-jenkins","tag-kentucky-wildcats","tag-rupp-arena","tag-southeastern-conference","tag-vanderbilt-commodores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21815","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=21815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21816,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21815\/revisions\/21816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}