{"id":27535,"date":"2013-01-28T21:49:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T02:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27535"},"modified":"2013-01-28T21:49:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T02:49:24","slug":"college-basketball-odds-and-predictions-kentucky-wildcats-vs-mississippi-rebels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-odds-and-predictions-kentucky-wildcats-vs-mississippi-rebels-27535\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Odds and Predictions: Kentucky Wildcats vs. Mississippi Rebels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kentucky Wildcats at No. 16 Mississippi Rebels
\nTuesday, 1\/29\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Mississippi -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Mississippi -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 145
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 146.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Mississippi Rebels have not fared well historically against the Kentucky Wildcats<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kentucky has won three of its last four games, including a 75-70 victory over the LSU Tigers as 15.5-point home favorites, while going OVER the posted total of 142.5.\u00a0 The Wildcats have four projected starters averaging in double figures, with guard Archie Goodwin leading the way in scoring 14.6 points per game.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is averaging 75.8 points per game, while shooting 48.5 percent from the field overall.\u00a0 Kentucky is 1-5 ATS versus conference opponents this year, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college basketball odds page.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats are 99-13 all-time against the Rebels, with their .884 winning percentage being the highest versus any league opponent for the program.\u00a0 Kentucky freshman Nerlens Noel is definitely a player to watch on both ends of the floor, as he averaged 9.0 points and 10.5 rebounds in two games last week, while tallying 34 blocks over the last five games.\u00a0 Head coach John Calipari has recorded a dominating 60-17 record on the road dating back to the 2005-06 campaign.<\/p>\n

Mississippi will put the Southeastern Conference\u2019s longest current win streak on the line Tuesday night, which must be considered when making your NCAA basketball picks.\u00a0 The Rebels are 6-0 in league play for the first time in school history and will play their first game as a ranked team versus an unranked Kentucky squad since 2001.\u00a0 Junior guard Marshall Henderson is the player to watch offensively, as he leads the conference in averaging 19.4 points per game, while ranking third nationally in knocking down 3.9 3-pointers a contest.\u00a0 Mississippi is 5-1 ATS at home this season, with the UNDER going 2-1 in three opportunities.<\/p>\n

The Rebels are fifth in the country in averaging 80.3 points per game, while they also get after it a bit on the defensive end\u2014limiting foes to 27.6 percent shooting from beyond the arc.\u00a0 Sophomore point guard Jarvis Summers has become an offensive threat of late, averaging 12.5 points in six conference games, which is far better than his 7.1 mark during non-conference play.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the Rebels have fallen short of the number in all four of their games as home favorites of three points or less since 2010.<\/p>\n

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Kentucky Wildcats at No. 16 Mississippi Rebels Tuesday, 1\/29\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Mississippi -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Mississippi -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 145 Current Total:\u00a0 146.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Kentucky has won three of its last four games, including a 75-70 victory over the LSU Tigers as 15.5-point home favorites, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[7350,756,876,7349,2865,7334,739],"class_list":["post-27535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-jarvis-summers","tag-john-calipari","tag-kentucky-wildcats","tag-marshall-henderson","tag-mississippi-rebels","tag-nerlens-noel","tag-sec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27535","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=27535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27536,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27535\/revisions\/27536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}