{"id":32660,"date":"2014-01-20T23:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T04:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=32660"},"modified":"2014-01-20T20:10:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T01:10:53","slug":"college-basketball-picks-texas-am-aggies-vs-kentucky-wildcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-texas-am-aggies-vs-kentucky-wildcats-32660\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Texas A&M Aggies vs. Kentucky Wildcats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas A&M Aggies vs. Kentucky Wildcats
\nTuesday, 1\/21\/14, 9:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kentucky -14
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Kentucky -14
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Kentucky Wildcats are averaging 77.6 points over their last five games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Texas A&M had its four-game winning streak snapped last time out, as it suffered a 81-72 overtime defeat to the Mississippi State Bulldogs as three-point road favorites, while going OVER the betting total for a second consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Aggies have just one player averaging double figures, with Jamal Jones scoring 12.3 points a contest, which is important to consider when making your college basketball betting picks Tuesday night.\u00a0 Texas A&M is 1-3 SU and 3-1 ATS as road underdogs of 12.5 or more points the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 3-0 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Aggies are the only Southeastern Conference team to win at Rupp Arena since John Calipari took over in Lexington, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college basketball odds page.\u00a0 Texas A&M sophomore point guard Alex Caruso will need to have the game of his life to pull off the upset\u2014entering as the conference\u2019s leader in assists, while ranking fourth in steals.<\/p>\n

Kentucky bounce back from a disappointing overtime loss on the road to Arkansas, as it picked up a 74-66 victory over the Tennessee Volunteers as 8.5-point home favorites last Saturday.\u00a0 The Wildcats are averaging 43.1 rebounds per game, which is the most of any team in the Calipari era\u2014leading directly to 17.0 second-chance points a contest.\u00a0 \u00a0 The program has four of five probable starters averaging in double figures, with freshman forward Julius Randle leading the way at 16.9 points a contest.\u00a0 Kentucky is 0-2 ATS as home favorites of 12.5 to 15 points since the 2011-12 campaign.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats have grabbed 74 offensive rebounds over their last five games, which has led to them averaging 77.6 points over that span.\u00a0 Kentucky also managed to knock down 23 of 24 free throw attempts last time out, which was the third best percentage under Calipari.\u00a0 Freshman point guard Andrew Harrison is starting to emerge as a major player nationally, as he\u2019s turned the ball over just 2.4 times per game.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Aggies due to the Wildcats being 5-9 ATS versus teams with a winning record this season.<\/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":"

Texas A&M Aggies vs. Kentucky Wildcats Tuesday, 1\/21\/14, 9:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kentucky -14 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Kentucky -14 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Texas A&M had its four-game winning streak snapped last time out, as it suffered a 81-72 overtime defeat to the Mississippi State Bulldogs as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[8061,756,7767,876,4116,3875,1145],"class_list":["post-32660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-jamal-jones","tag-john-calipari","tag-julius-randle","tag-kentucky-wildcats","tag-rupp-arena","tag-southeastern-conference","tag-texas-am-aggies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32660","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=32660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32662,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32660\/revisions\/32662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}