{"id":31668,"date":"2013-12-06T21:47:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T02:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31668"},"modified":"2013-12-06T21:47:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T02:47:47","slug":"college-basketball-predictions-ucla-bruins-vs-missouri-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-predictions-ucla-bruins-vs-missouri-tigers-31668\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Predictions: UCLA Bruins vs. Missouri Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

UCLA Bruins vs. Missouri Tigers
\nSaturday, 12\/7\/13, 12:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Missouri -1
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Missouri -1.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The UCLA Bruins lead the Pac-12 in scoring<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

UCLA has opened the season 8-0 for the first time since 2006-07, as it averages a Pac-12 Conference-leading 90.6 points per game, including 98.8 points per game over its last four contests.\u00a0 The Bruins are being led by guard Jordan Adams offensively, who is scoring 21.5 points a contest, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your college basketball predictions.\u00a0 The program is 6-1 SU all-time in this series, with the most recent win coming in overtime last season.\u00a0 UCLA is 2-3 SU and 3-2 ATS as road underdogs of three or fewer points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Bruins are outscoring opponents by 21.8 points a game, which is important to consider when looking over the college basketball odds page.\u00a0 Adams has scored in double digits 33 times in 41 career games since arriving on campus, while forward Kyle Anderson is a dynamic all-around player\u2014leading the team with eight double-doubles as a freshman a year ago.<\/p>\n

Missouri has also opened up the 2013-14 campaign with an unblemished record, as it comes off an 80-71 victory over the West Virginia Mountaineers as 6.5-point home favorites Thursday night, while going UNDER the betting total of 152.\u00a0 The Tigers own a 23-game homecourt winning streak, while they\u2019ve gone 38-1 SU at home under current head coach Frank Haith.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that the program welcomed back just one starter from last season\u2019s 23-11 squad.\u00a0 Missouri is 13-1 SU and 6-4 ATS in December the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Tigers have won four consecutive games versus ranked opponents at Mizzou Arena, while Haith has compiled a 9-4 SU record overall in that situation since arriving on campus.\u00a0 Missouri is led in scoring by the dynamic junior tandem of Jordan Clarkson and Jabari Brown, who are combining to average 39.2 points per game.\u00a0 Clarkson has a string of four consecutive 20-point games heading into this affair.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Tigers due to their 6-1 ATS mark versus Pac-12 Conference opponents.<\/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":"

UCLA Bruins vs. Missouri Tigers Saturday, 12\/7\/13, 12:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Missouri -1 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Missouri -1.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker UCLA has opened the season 8-0 for the first time since 2006-07, as it averages a Pac-12 Conference-leading 90.6 points per game, including 98.8 points […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[7824,7165,7851,7281,433,5281,739,11],"class_list":["post-31668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-jabari-brown","tag-jordan-adams","tag-jordan-clarkson","tag-kyle-anderson","tag-missouri-tigers","tag-pac-12","tag-sec","tag-ucla-bruins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31668","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=31668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31669,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31668\/revisions\/31669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}