{"id":27853,"date":"2013-02-19T12:29:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T17:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27853"},"modified":"2013-02-19T12:29:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T17:29:50","slug":"college-basketball-picks-florida-gators-vs-missouri-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-florida-gators-vs-missouri-tigers-27853\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Florida Gators vs. Missouri Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 5 Florida Gators at Missouri Tigers
\nTuesday, 2\/19\/13, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Florida -6
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Florida -5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 138
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 139
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Florida Gators are 18-11 ATS on the road the last two-plus seasons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Florida has won three games in a row, including an 83-52 victory over the Auburn Tigers as 17-point road favorites last Saturday, while going OVER the total for the fourth time in five contests.\u00a0 \u201cI thought Auburn had a real good environment,\u201d stated Gators coach Billy Donovan.\u00a0 The Gators have been led by their defense for the entire 2012-13 NCAA basketball season, as they rank third nationally in allowing just 52.6 points per game, which has led to a plus-21.7 scoring margin.\u00a0 Florida is 18-11 ATS on the road the last two-plus seasons, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your college basketball expert picks Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

The Gators are hitting 42 percent of their 3-point shots during Southeastern Conference play, while holding foes to 30.3 percent from beyond the arc.\u00a0 Florida has four players averaging in double figures offensively, with senior guard Kenny Boynton scoring 13.0 points per game.\u00a0 The program picked up a 31-point win over Missouri in the first meeting on Jan. 19, which was its largest margin of victory over a ranked opponent since 2005.<\/p>\n

Missouri will look to bounce back from a 73-71 defeat to the Arkansas Razorbacks last Saturday, while going UNDER the posted total for a second consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Tigers own a 15-game home-court winning streak, which is the ninth longest such streak in school history and seventh longest active streak in the country.\u00a0 The team has compiled a dominating 29-1 record when playing at Mizzou Arena under current head coach Frank Haith.\u00a0 Missouri is 2-3 ATS as an underdog this season, with the UNDER going 3-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Tigers are second in the country in grabbing 42.2 rebounds per game, which has played a major part in posting a plus-14.0 advantage in that category over their last seven contests.\u00a0 Senior forward Alex Oriakhi is the main player to watch underneath the basket, averaging 10.6 points and 8.8 rebounds, while point Phil Pressey runs things on the perimeter.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the OVER is 10-3 in the Tigers\u2019 last 13 games with a number between 130 and 139.5.<\/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 Florida Gators at Missouri Tigers Tuesday, 2\/19\/13, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Florida -6 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Florida -5 Opening Total:\u00a0 138 Current Total:\u00a0 139 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Florida has won three games in a row, including an 83-52 victory over the Auburn Tigers as 17-point road favorites last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3881,499,3863,5741,433,4073,7298,739,3875],"class_list":["post-27853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-billy-donovan","tag-florida-gators","tag-frank-haith","tag-kenny-boynton","tag-missouri-tigers","tag-mizzou-arena","tag-phil-pressey","tag-sec","tag-southeastern-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27853","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=27853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27855,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27853\/revisions\/27855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}