{"id":22573,"date":"2012-04-02T10:18:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T15:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=22573"},"modified":"2012-04-02T10:18:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T15:18:24","slug":"ncaa-tournament-2012-kansas-jayhawks-vs-kentucky-wildcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-tournament-2012-kansas-jayhawks-vs-kentucky-wildcats-22573\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Tournament 2012: Kansas Jayhawks vs. Kentucky Wildcats"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 2 Kansas Jayhawks vs. No. 1 Kentucky Wildcats
\nMonday, 4\/2\/12, 9:23 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kentucky -6
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Kentucky -6.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 139
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 137.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Kentucky Wildcats forward Anthony Davis is likely to be the star of the show Monday night inside the Mercedes-Benz Superdome<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kansas has advanced to its ninth NCAA National Championship game with a 64-62 win over the Ohio State Buckeyes as three-point underdogs on Saturday night.\u00a0 The Jayhawks overcame a 13-point deficit in that particular contest, as the program gets set to revenge an earlier loss against tonight\u2019s opponent.\u00a0 The team suffered a 75-65 setback to the Kentucky Wildcats as 6.5-point neutral court underdogs on Nov. 15, which served as the second game of the year for both sides.\u00a0 Kansas is 2-2 ATS as an underdog and the \u201cunder\u201d is 5-0 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Jayhawks are 6-20 all-time against the Wildcats, but have managed to win three of the last four meetings.\u00a0 Kansas led the Big 12 Conference in limiting opponents to just 37.9 percent shooting and also managed to pace all teams in out-rebounding opponents by 5.8 boards per game.\u00a0 Junior forward Thomas Robinson is certainly the player to watch, as he comes in averaging 17.7 points and 11.7 rebounds per game.\u00a0 Bob Cousy Award finalist Tyshawn Taylor will also have to be great from the point guard position, as he led the program during conference play in averaging 18.6 points per game.<\/p>\n

Kentucky comes off a 69-61 win over in-state rival Louisville and advances to its 11th national championship game.\u00a0 The Wildcats are led by a freshman class that accounted for 54 percent of the program\u2019s points and 57 percent of its rebounds.\u00a0 Forward Anthony Davis is the leader of that group, averaging team highs in points (14.4), rebounds (10.2) and blocked shots (4.6) per game.\u00a0 He is enjoying a tremendous season and has grabbed the attention of Kansas head coach Bill Self.\u00a0 \u201cDavis is a great player, but he\u2019s not Superman,\u201d stated Self over the weekend.\u00a0 Kentucky is 16-21 ATS as a favorite this year.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats come in with a 174-26 all-time mark when playing as the top-ranked team in the country, while head coach John Calipari is 62-8 over the course of his career in that situation.\u00a0 Kentucky is tremendous on the defensive side of the floor, leading all teams nationally in allowing opponents to shoot just 37.4 percent from the field.\u00a0 The program will finish this season with three rematches from the regular season, as it has already taken care of business against Indiana and Louisville in earlier rounds of the tournament.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Wildcats due to their 3-1-1 ATS mark versus Big 12 opponents, while the Jayhawks are 0-2 ATS versus SEC foes.<\/p>\n

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No. 2 Kansas Jayhawks vs. No. 1 Kentucky Wildcats Monday, 4\/2\/12, 9:23 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kentucky -6 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Kentucky -6.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 139 Current Total:\u00a0 137.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Kansas has advanced to its ninth NCAA National Championship game with a 64-62 win over the Ohio State Buckeyes […]<\/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":[6602,5659,3267,34,876,739,5740],"class_list":["post-22573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-2012-ncaa-tournament","tag-anthony-davis","tag-big-12-conference","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-kentucky-wildcats","tag-sec","tag-thomas-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22573","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=22573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22575,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22573\/revisions\/22575"}],"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=22573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}