{"id":27683,"date":"2013-02-09T09:59:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T14:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27683"},"modified":"2013-02-09T09:59:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T14:59:10","slug":"ncaa-basketball-picks-kansas-jayhawks-vs-oklahoma-sooners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-picks-kansas-jayhawks-vs-oklahoma-sooners-27683\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Picks: Kansas Jayhawks vs. Oklahoma Sooners"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 5 Kansas Jayhawks at Oklahoma Sooners
\nSaturday, 2\/9\/13, 4:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kansas -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Kansas -4.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 132
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 134.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Kansas Jayhawks are 5-2 ATS as road favorites of 3.5 to 6 points in their last seven tries<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kansas has dropped back-to-back games, including a 62-55 setback to the TCU Horned Frogs as 17-point road favorites Wednesday night, while going UNDER the total for the eighth time in 10 contests.\u00a0 \u201cAll teams go through funks, but we\u2019re certainly in probably the worst funk that I\u2019ve ever seen a Kansas team be in,\u201d stated Jayhawks coach Bill Self.\u00a0 The Jayhawks haven\u2019t lost three consecutive games since Feb. 14-21, 2005.\u00a0 Kansas is 5-2 ATS as road favorites of 3.5 to 6 points the last two-plus years, which is important to consider when looking over the college basketball odds page.<\/p>\n

The Jayhawks lead the nation in allowing opponents to shoot just 35.6 percent from the floor, while pacing the Big 12 Conference in outscoring foes by an average margin of 13.4 points.\u00a0 Kansas is led on the offensive end by guard Ben McLemore, who happens to lead the Big 12 freshman class with a 16.3 scoring average.\u00a0 He would surpass Danny Manning\u2019s school record 14.6 points per game for a first-year player if the season ended today.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma has lost three of its last four games, including a disappointing 83-64 defeat to the Iowa State Cyclones as 5.5-point road underdogs last time out, while going OVER the posted total of 143.\u00a0 The Sooners have struggled from beyond the arc in their last two affairs, as they\u2019ve managed to knock down just 6 of 30 tries in that span.\u00a0 In Big 12 play, the team has knocked down just 34 shots from 3-point range, which pales in comparison to its opponents 67 makes from the distance.\u00a0 Oklahoma is 4-2 ATS at home this season, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your college basketball picks against the spread.<\/p>\n

The Sooners are 7-3 in games decided by seven or fewer points this season, which is an improvement from their 4-5 mark in that situation a year ago.\u00a0 Oklahoma has shot under 70 percent from the charity stripe in its last four games, which is quite a departure from finishing over that number in 10 of its previous 11 affairs.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Sooners due to their 5-2 ATS mark at home versus a team with a winning road record, while the Jayhawks are 3-7 ATS in their last 10 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":"

No. 5 Kansas Jayhawks at Oklahoma Sooners Saturday, 2\/9\/13, 4:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kansas -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Kansas -4.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 132 Current Total:\u00a0 134.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Kansas has dropped back-to-back games, including a 62-55 setback to the TCU Horned Frogs as 17-point road favorites Wednesday night, while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[7294,3267,4026,34,408],"class_list":["post-27683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-ben-mclemore","tag-big-12-conference","tag-bill-self","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-oklahoma-sooners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27683","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=27683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27684,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27683\/revisions\/27684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}