{"id":27811,"date":"2013-02-16T08:34:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T13:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27811"},"modified":"2013-02-16T08:34:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T13:34:07","slug":"ncaa-basketball-picks-baylor-bears-vs-kansas-state-wildcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-picks-baylor-bears-vs-kansas-state-wildcats-27811\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Picks: Baylor Bears vs. Kansas State Wildcats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baylor Bears at No. 10 Kansas State Wildcats
\nSaturday, 2\/16\/13, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kansas State -4.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Kansas State -4.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 130
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 131
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Baylor Bears have won five of their last nine games on the road against the Kansas State Wildcats<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Baylor has won and covered the spread in its last two games, as it comes off an 80-60 victory over the West Virginia Mountaineers as eight-point home favorites Wednesday night, while going OVER the total for the first time in three contests.\u00a0 The Bears have held Big 12 Conference foes under 50 points three times during the 2012-13 campaign\u2014after accomplishing that feat just three times in the league\u2019s first 16 years combined.\u00a0 Baylor is 4-3 ATS as road underdogs of 3.5 to 6 points the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 3-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Bears are seeking multiple road wins against ranked foes in the same season for the first time in program history, which is important to consider when making your college basketball picks against the spread.\u00a0 Baylor leads the league in scoring defense during Big 12 action, allowing 60.7 points per game on 38 percent shooting.\u00a0 Guard Pierre Jackson is the player to watch on the offensive end, scoring in double figures in 31 consecutive games.<\/p>\n

Kansas State plays the first of back-to-back home games in a three-day period Saturday, as it looks to bounce back from a discouraging 83-62 setback to the Kansas Jayhawks as 7.5-point road underdogs Monday.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re still in first place,\u201d commented Wildcats coach Bruce Weber.\u00a0 \u201cWe can\u2019t let one loss become two losses.\u201d\u00a0 The Wildcats have won 13 of their last 14 games at Bramlage Coliseum, something to keep in mind when looking over the college basketball betting lines.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats are 14-12 all-time in this series, including an 8-5 mark when playing at home, but have dropped five of the last nine meetings at this venue.\u00a0 Senior guard Rodney McGruder is the team\u2019s offensive leader, averaging 15.2 points per game, while seeing action in 100 consecutive games.\u00a0 The program has compiled a 28-7 mark in the month of February since the 2008-09 campaign, including a 14-3 record at home.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Bears due to the underdog being on a 12-4 ATS run in this series.<\/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":"

Baylor Bears at No. 10 Kansas State Wildcats Saturday, 2\/16\/13, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kansas State -4.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Kansas State -4.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 130 Current Total:\u00a0 131 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Baylor has won and covered the spread in its last two games, as it comes off an 80-60 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3288,3267,6324,2807,7148,6296],"class_list":["post-27811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-baylor-bears","tag-big-12-conference","tag-bramlage-coliseum","tag-kansas-state-wildcats","tag-pierre-jackson","tag-rodney-mcgruder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27811","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=27811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27812,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27811\/revisions\/27812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}