{"id":28251,"date":"2013-03-21T06:47:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T11:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28251"},"modified":"2013-03-21T06:47:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T11:47:34","slug":"ncaa-basketball-picks-missouri-tigers-vs-colorado-state-rams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-picks-missouri-tigers-vs-colorado-state-rams-28251\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Picks: Missouri Tigers vs. Colorado State Rams"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 9 Missouri Tigers vs. No. 8 Colorado State Rams
\nThursday, 3\/21\/13, 9:20 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Missouri -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Missouri -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 143
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 142.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Missouri Tigers are 11-3 SU on a neutral floor under coach Frank Haith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Missouri is back in the NCAA Tournament for a school record-tying fifth consecutive year, as it prepares to play at Rupp Arena for the second time this season, as it dropped a 90-83 overtime decision to Kentucky on Feb. 23.\u00a0 The Tigers are 3-0 in NCAA Tournament games played on a home court of a league rival, which is hard to ignored when making your college basketball picks against the spread.\u00a0 Missouri is 6-9 ATS in March the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 8-5 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Tigers are one of the nation\u2019s best rebounding squads, as they rank second with 41.4 boards per game.\u00a0 Missouri ranks third in rebounding margin, which is just behind Thursday\u2019s opponent, who leads the nation at +12.4.\u00a0 Head coach Frank Haith has led the program to 11 wins in 14 tries on a neutral floor, including an impressive 4-1 mark versus top-25 opponents.\u00a0 Offensively, the squad finished second in the Southeastern Conference in scoring, averaging 76.2 points.<\/p>\n

Colorado State went 2-7-1 ATS over its last 10 games, which is important to consider when looking over the college basketball betting lines, as it suffered a 75-65 setback to the UNLV Runnin\u2019 Rebels in the Mountain West Conference tournament semifinals.\u00a0 \u201cThis is my fifth time at being a first-year coach at this level and this has been the most difficult, as far as expectations,\u201d stated Rams coach Larry Eustachy.\u00a0 He has gone 3-4 in four previous NCAA Tournament appearances.\u00a0 Colorado State is 3-5 ATS as underdogs this season.<\/p>\n

The Rams\u2019 four-year seniors have been a part of 80 wins during their careers in Fort Collins, which is the second-most in program history.\u00a0 Colorado enters with a 23-8 overall record, which includes an 11-5 conference mark.\u00a0 The team went 6-7 on the road, but 3-0 when playing on a neutral floor.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Tigers due to their 10-3 ATS mark on a neutral floor, while the Rams are 2-5-1 ATS versus teams with a winning record.<\/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. 9 Missouri Tigers vs. No. 8 Colorado State Rams Thursday, 3\/21\/13, 9:20 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Missouri -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Missouri -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 143 Current Total:\u00a0 142.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Missouri is back in the NCAA Tournament for a school record-tying fifth consecutive year, as it prepares to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[2494,3863,7223,433,508,3,3875],"class_list":["post-28251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-colorado-state-rams","tag-frank-haith","tag-larry-eustachy","tag-missouri-tigers","tag-mountain-west-conference","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-southeastern-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28251","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=28251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28252,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28251\/revisions\/28252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}