{"id":21950,"date":"2012-03-03T11:07:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T16:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21950"},"modified":"2012-03-03T11:07:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T16:07:10","slug":"big-12-conference-basketball-texas-longhorns-vs-kansas-jayhawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/big-12-conference-basketball-texas-longhorns-vs-kansas-jayhawks-21950\/","title":{"rendered":"Big 12 Conference Basketball: Texas Longhorns vs. Kansas Jayhawks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas Longhorns at No. 4 Kansas Jayhawks
\nSaturday, 3\/3\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kansas -12
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Kansas -11.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 138
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 139
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Kansas Jayhawks guard Tyshawn Taylor will play his last game inside Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Texas looks to secure a 20-win season for the 13th consecutive year and will attempt to gain revenge from an earlier 69-66 loss to the Kansas Jayhawks as 3.5-point home underdogs on Jan. 21.\u00a0 The Longhorns will look to get junior guard J\u2019Covan Brown going, averaging 23.0 points in four career meetings versus the Jayhawks.\u00a0 He is the team\u2019s leading scorer in averaging 19.6 points per game.\u00a0 Eight of the program\u2019s 11 losses this season have come by six points or less.\u00a0 Texas is 5-12 ATS versus conference opponents and the \u201cover\u201d is 10-7 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Longhorns will be meeting the Jayhawks for the 27th time in this series, posting a 7-19 overall record, which includes a dismal 1-9 mark when playing in Lawrence.\u00a0 Texas needs to get after it on the defensive end to pull off the major upset, holding opponents to 59.2 points per game in its nine Big 12 Conference wins this season.\u00a0 In its eight league losses, the Longhorns have allowed an average of 78.0 points per game on 47.7 percent shooting.<\/p>\n

Kansas enters on a seven-game win streak and will look to win its 29th-straight regular-season home finale inside Allen Fieldhouse.\u00a0 The Jayhawks will be honoring their seniors before the game, with senior guard Tyshawn Taylor being the biggest name of the group.\u00a0 He has tallied a 68-3 record in home games during this career, but the only loss in tonight\u2019s venue came to Texas.\u00a0 The program averages 74.9 points per game and allows 61.1, which comes out to a +13.8 scoring margin that ranks second in the conference.\u00a0 Kansas is 9-7 ATS versus conference opponents this year.<\/p>\n

The Jayhawks are led by national player of the year candidate Thomas Robinson, who is the only player in the Big 12 to average a double-double with 17.8 points and 11.8 rebounds per game.\u00a0 Kansas leads the conference in limiting opponents to 38.2 percent shooting, while leading all members with a rebounding margin of +6.3.\u00a0 The program\u2019s current 21-game home court winning streak is tied for the fourth longest nationally.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Jayhawks due to their 36-17-1 ATS mark as a home favorite of 7.0 to 12.5 points, while the Longhorns are 5-12 ATS following a straight-up win.<\/p>\n

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Texas Longhorns at No. 4 Kansas Jayhawks Saturday, 3\/3\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kansas -12 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Kansas -11.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 138 Current Total:\u00a0 139 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Texas looks to secure a 20-win season for the 13th consecutive year and will attempt to gain revenge from an earlier […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4027,3267,6006,34,496,5740,5841],"class_list":["post-21950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-allen-fieldhouse","tag-big-12-conference","tag-jcovan-brown","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-thomas-robinson","tag-tyshawn-taylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21950","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=21950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21951,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21950\/revisions\/21951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}