{"id":26089,"date":"2012-11-13T10:29:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T15:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=26089"},"modified":"2012-11-13T10:34:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T15:34:41","slug":"college-basketball-predictions-michigan-state-spartans-vs-kansas-jayhawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-predictions-michigan-state-spartans-vs-kansas-jayhawks-26089\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Predictions: Michigan State Spartans vs. Kansas Jayhawks"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 21 Michigan State Spartans vs. No. 7 Kansas Jayhawks
\nTuesday, 11\/13\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kansas -1
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Kansas -2.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 129.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 129.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Michigan State Spartans will travel close to 12,000 miles in the month of November<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Michigan State looks to bounce back from suffering a 66-62 loss to the Connecticut Huskies as eight-point neutral-site favorites, while going UNDER the posted total of 133.5.\u00a0 \u201cIt starts with our big men,\u201d commented Spartans guard Branden Dawson commented after Friday\u2019s game that was played at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany.\u00a0 \u201cAll we have to do is come out strong, talk, communicate as a team.\u201d\u00a0 He scored 15 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, while Keith Appling led all scorers with 17 points.\u00a0 Michigan State is 10-5 ATS as an underdog the last two-plus seasons, which is important to consider when making your college basketball picks and predictions.<\/p>\n

The Spartans will travel nearly 12,000 miles in the month of November, which is something for college basketball handicappers to monitor closely.\u00a0 Michigan State is 2-0 all-time inside the Georgia Dome, as it looks to improve upon its 5-4 record against Tuesday night\u2019s opponent.\u00a0 Head coach Tom Izzo will likely get after his roster on the defensive end, as the program ranked second in the nation in allowing opponents to shoot just 37.9 percent from the field last year.<\/p>\n

Kansas earned a 74-55 victory over Southeast Missouri State as 20-point home favorites on Friday, but it\u2019s important to note that the team hit just 2 of 21 shots from beyond the arc.\u00a0 \u201cThis is going to be a process and Michigan State is not going to let you get to three feet from the basket,\u201d commented Jayhawks head coach Bill Self.\u00a0 The Jayhawks return three starters from a squad that advanced to the 2012 NCAA championship game, while winning the school\u2019s eighth-straight Big 12 regular-season title.\u00a0 Kansas is 6-5 ATS in November since 2010, with the UNDER going 6-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Jayhawks have compiled a solid 43-23 record against ranked opponents during the Self era, which includes a 33-13 mark over the last six seasons.\u00a0 Kansas has also posted a better than .500 record away from Allen Fieldhouse in every season under Self\u2019s watch, which includes an 8-2 mark on the road a year ago.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Spartans due to their 7-2 ATS mark against Big 12 opponents, while the Jayhawks are 3-11 ATS versus Big Ten foes.<\/p>\n

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No. 21 Michigan State Spartans vs. No. 7 Kansas Jayhawks Tuesday, 11\/13\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kansas -1 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Kansas -2.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 129.5 Current Total:\u00a0 129.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Michigan State looks to bounce back from suffering a 66-62 loss to the Connecticut Huskies as eight-point neutral-site […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":26003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3267,3442,4026,34,5831,500,778],"class_list":["post-26089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-12-conference","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-bill-self","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-keith-appling","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-tom-izzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26089","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=26089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26091,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26089\/revisions\/26091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}