{"id":22020,"date":"2012-03-08T00:27:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T05:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=22020"},"modified":"2012-03-08T00:27:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T05:27:30","slug":"big-12-quarterfinals-kansas-st-wildcats-vs-baylor-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/big-12-quarterfinals-kansas-st-wildcats-vs-baylor-bears-22020\/","title":{"rendered":"Big 12 Quarterfinals: Kansas St Wildcats vs Baylor Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"

2012 Big 12 Tournament – Quarterfinals
\n#5 Kansas St Wildcats vs #4 Baylor Bears
\nSprint Center – Kansas City, Missouri
\nThursday, March 8, 2012, 12:30 pm Eastern, TV: ESPN2
\nOpening Line: Baylor -1 1\/2
\nCurrent Line: Baylor -2 1\/2
\nOpening Total: 135 1\/2
\nCurrent Total: 134 1\/2
\nOpening Money Line: Baylor -135 \/ Kansas St +115
\nCurrent Money Line: Baylor -140 \/ Kansas St +120<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Quincy Acy and Baylor take on Kansas St in the Big 12 quarterfinals Thursday in Kansas City.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The #11 Baylor Bears are 25-6 this season and finished tied for third place in the Big 12 with a 12-6 record with Iowa St. The Cyclones had the tiebreaker so they are the #3 seed. Baylor will take on the #5 seed Kansas St in the quarterfinals Thursday. The Wildcats are 21-9 overall and 10-8 in conference. Kansas St has won 4 of their last 5 games including 77-58 over Oklahoma St Saturday at home to close out the regular season. Baylor lost 80-72 at Iowa St Saturday to snap a 3 game winning streak.<\/p>\n

Baylor and Kansas St split the season series with each winning a very close game on the road. Baylor won in Manhattan 75-73 January 10, and Kansas St won 57-56 in Waco last month. Kansas St leads the series 14-11 against Baylor.<\/p>\n

Kansas St is coached by Frank Martin. <\/strong>The Wildcats have wins over George Washington, Virginia Tech, Alabama, Southern Illinois, UTEP, Long Beach St, <\/strong>Missouri twice, Texas, Oklahoma St twice, Texas Tech twice, <\/strong>and Texas A&M twice. Kansas St has losses to West Virginia, Kansas twice, Oklahoma twice, Iowa St twice, and Texas.<\/p>\n

Baylor is coached by Scott Drew. The Bears have wins over San Diego St, Northwestern, BYU, St. Mary’s, West Virginia, Mississippi St, Texas A&M twice, Texas Tech twice, Oklahoma St twice, Oklahoma twice, Texas twice, and Iowa St. Baylor has additional losses to Kansas and Missouri twice each.<\/p>\n

Kansas St is outscoring opponents 71-63 this season. The Wildcats are shooting 44.1% from the field including 34.1% on 3 point shots. KSU makes 66.3% of their free throws. The Wildcats average 37.6 rebounds a game and have a rebounding margin of +5.2. K-State averages 14.4 assists, 14.5 turnovers, 6.1 steals and 4.8 blocks a game. Kansas St opponents are shooting 40.2% from the field, including 32% on three pointers. The Wildcats force 16.3 turnovers a game.<\/p>\n

KSU\u00a0 Guard Rodney McGruder averages 15.5 points, 5.4 rebounds, 1.4 assists a game and 1.1 steals a game, and is shooting 39.3% from 3 point range. He leads the team in scoring. Forward Jamar Samuels averages 10.3 points, 6.8 rebounds a game to lead the team,\u00a0 and 1.3 assists a game.\u00a0 Will Spradling averages 9.7 points, 2.2 rebounds, and 2.8 assists a game.\u00a0 He makes 34.6% of his three pointers. Angel Rodriguez averages 7.9 points, 2.4 rebounds, 3.2 assists to lead the team, and 1.3 steals a game to lead the team.\u00a0 Thomas Gipson averages 7.3 points and 4.8 rebounds, a game.\u00a0 Jordan Henriquez averages 6.7 points, 5rebounds, and 2.3 blocks a game to lead the team. Forward James Watson is out indefinitely due to being ineligible.<\/p>\n

Baylor is outscoring opponents 75-64 this season. The Bears are shooting 47.2% from the field, including 38.5% from 3 point range. Baylor is in the top 40 nationally in both categories.\u00a0 Baylor makes 74.9% from the free throw line. The Bears average 36.5 rebounds a game, and have a rebounding margin of +5. Baylor averages 15 assists, 14.1 turnovers, 7.9 steals, and 4.9 blocks a game. Baylor opponents are shooting 40.7% from the field, including 33.6% from 3 point range. The Bears force 14.7 turnovers a game on defense.<\/p>\n

Baylor has 4 players averaging double digit scoring.\u00a0Pierre Jackson averages 13.5 points, 3 rebounds, 5.6 assists, and 1.7 steals a game to lead the team in the latter two categories. He is shooting 45.3% from 3 point range. Perry Jones III averages 13.1 points, 7.5 rebounds to lead the team, 1.3 assists, and 1 steal a game.\u00a0Quincy Acy averages 12.1 points, 7.2 rebounds, 1 steals, and 2 blocks a game to lead the team. Quincy Miller averages 11.5 points, 5 rebounds, and 1.6 assists a game. Miller is shooting 37.3% from 3 point range.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Brady Heslip averages 9.3 points, 1.3 rebounds, and 1 assists a game. He makes 43% of his three point shots.<\/p>\n

Baylor is 10-14 ATS and the total is 12-12 this year. Kansas St is 13-13 ATS and the total is also 13-13. The underdog is 12-3 ATS in the last 15 in this series. The Wildcats are 4-1 overall, and in Big 12 games, and 2-9 against teams with winning records. The Bears are 3-8 overall, and in Big 12 games, 2-7 against teams with winning records, and 1-4 in neutral site games.<\/p>\n

These two teams are evenly matched and play similar styles. I see no reason why this shouldn’t be another close game, as they have played twice and both games were decided by a total of 3 points. I think both teams have a great shot of making the NCAA tournament and are playing to improve their seeding. I will take Kansas St to win.<\/p>\n

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2012 Big 12 Tournament – Quarterfinals #5 Kansas St Wildcats vs #4 Baylor Bears Sprint Center – Kansas City, Missouri Thursday, March 8, 2012, 12:30 pm Eastern, TV: ESPN2 Opening Line: Baylor -1 1\/2 Current Line: Baylor -2 1\/2 Opening Total: 135 1\/2 Current Total: 134 1\/2 Opening Money Line: Baylor -135 \/ Kansas St […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40249,"featured_media":9766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3288,738,6514,1367,4227,9528,3887,6030,2024,4382,30],"class_list":["post-22020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-baylor-bears","tag-big-12","tag-big-12-tournament","tag-championship-week","tag-colelge-basketball-handicapping","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-basketball-betting","tag-college-basketball-odds","tag-espn2","tag-kansas-st-wildcats","tag-ncaa-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22020","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\/40249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22020"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22103,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22020\/revisions\/22103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}