{"id":31527,"date":"2013-11-27T21:04:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31527"},"modified":"2013-11-27T21:04:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:04:11","slug":"college-basketball-picks-northwestern-wildcats-vs-missouri-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-northwestern-wildcats-vs-missouri-tigers-31527\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Northwestern Wildcats vs. Missouri Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Northwestern Wildcats vs. Missouri Tigers
\nThursday, 11\/28\/13, 10:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Missouri -6.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Missouri -6.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Northwestern Wildcats have never played on Thanksgiving Day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Northwestern has won three games in a row, including a 72-59 victory over Gardner-Webb last time out, as the program prepares to play on Thanksgiving Day for the first time in school history.\u00a0 The Wildcats are also playing in Sin City for the first time since 1977, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college basketball betting lines.\u00a0 Three probable starters are averaging in double figures, with senior guard Drew Crawford leading the way at 16.3 points and 8.0 rebounds per game.\u00a0 Northwestern is 5-2 SU and 4-3 ATS on a neutral floor the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats will play one of their most challenging non-conference schedules in recent memory, as they prepare to take on five major conference opponents.\u00a0 Northwestern will need a big game out of junior Dave Sobolewski in hopes of pulling off an upset in this spot, as he\u2019s tallied 248 assists in his first two seasons.\u00a0 He leads the team with an average of 3.5 in that all-important category during the 2013-14 campaign.<\/p>\n

Missouri picked up a 78-70 victory over Stanford in the opening round of the Battle 4 Atlantis last year on this particular holiday, as it prepares to hit Las Vegas for the first time since 2005.\u00a0 The Tigers have three players averaging 12.2 points or more per game, with junior guard Jabari Brown leading the way at 19.2.\u00a0 The program has compiled a dominating 43-6 record in November since 2006, while it has won 50 of its last 53 regular season non-league games.\u00a0 Missouri is 9-4 SU and 8-4-1 ATS in tournament games since 2011-12.<\/p>\n

The Tigers welcomed back just one starter from last season\u2019s 23-11 team, and no players are back that saw action on that 30-5 club during the 2011-12 season.\u00a0 Missouri hasn\u2019t faced a member of the Big Ten Conference since Dec. 8, 2007.\u00a0 Head coach Frank Haith was suspended for the first five games this season, as he prepares to improve upon his 9-0 all-time record when staring a year on the sidelines.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total, as the OVER is 16-5 in the Tigers\u2019 last 21 neutral site games.<\/p>\n

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Northwestern Wildcats vs. Missouri Tigers Thursday, 11\/28\/13, 10:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Missouri -6.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Missouri -6.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Northwestern has won three games in a row, including a 72-59 victory over Gardner-Webb last time out, as the program prepares to play on Thanksgiving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3442,6249,7824,1240,433,3119],"class_list":["post-31527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-drew-crawford","tag-jabari-brown","tag-las-vegas","tag-missouri-tigers","tag-northwestern-wildcats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31527","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=31527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31528,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31527\/revisions\/31528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}