{"id":27421,"date":"2013-01-21T12:30:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T17:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27421"},"modified":"2013-01-21T12:30:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T17:30:30","slug":"ncaa-basketball-picks-oklahoma-state-cowboys-vs-baylor-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-picks-oklahoma-state-cowboys-vs-baylor-bears-27421\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Picks: Oklahoma State Cowboys vs. Baylor Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oklahoma State Cowboys at Baylor Bears
\nMonday, 1\/21\/12, 5:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Baylor -4.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Baylor -4
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 132.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 133
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Baylor Bears are 6-0 ATS in their last six home games in this series<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oklahoma State has alternated wins and losses over its last four games, as it comes off a 79-45 victory over the Texas Tech Red Raiders as 17.5-point home favorites Saturday, while going UNDER the posted total of 136.\u00a0 The Cowboys are 51-18 all-time against the Bears, including a 17-13 mark in Waco.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is led by Markel Brown, who averages 15.2 points per game.\u00a0 Oklahoma State is 7-17 ATS on the road the last two-plus seasons, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college basketball odds page.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys are limiting their opponents to just 57.4 points per game on 37.3 percent shooting from the floor.\u00a0 Oklahoma City leads the Big 12 Conference and ranks ninth nationally in free-throw percentage at 76.2.\u00a0 The program is the only team in the conference that has three different players ranked among the league\u2019s top 10 and four among the top 20 in scoring.\u00a0 Brown has played four games in this series, averaging 12 points per contest.<\/p>\n

Baylor has won four of its last five games, while also capturing seven of its last 11 meetings with Oklahoma State after winning just one of its previous 19.\u00a0 The Bears have compiled a 20-7 record in their last 27 Big 12 home games since the start of the 2010 conference season.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that the program has won 12 straight games against the founding members of the Big 12 South Division.\u00a0 Baylor is 3-6 ATS as a favorite this season, with the OVER going 4-3 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Bears have had most of their success offensively inside the paint, averaging 36.9 points per game in that situation.\u00a0 Baylor also has one of the better offensive players in the conference, with Pierre Jackson scoring in double figures in 24 straight games, averaging 18.2 points and 6.2 assists during that streak.\u00a0 The team ranks second in the conference and 33rd nationally with a 46.4 team field goal percentage.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Bears due to their 6-0 ATS mark at home in this series, while the Cowboys are 1-4 ATS in their last five conference 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":"

Oklahoma State Cowboys at Baylor Bears Monday, 1\/21\/12, 5:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Baylor -4.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Baylor -4 Opening Total:\u00a0 132.5 Current Total:\u00a0 133 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Oklahoma State has alternated wins and losses over its last four games, as it comes off a 79-45 victory over the Texas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3288,3267,7331,1141,7148],"class_list":["post-27421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-baylor-bears","tag-big-12-conference","tag-markel-brown","tag-oklahoma-state-cowboys","tag-pierre-jackson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27421","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=27421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27423,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27421\/revisions\/27423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}