{"id":32930,"date":"2014-02-07T12:29:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T17:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=32930"},"modified":"2014-02-07T12:29:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T17:29:53","slug":"college-basketball-picks-texas-longhorns-vs-kansas-state-wildcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-texas-longhorns-vs-kansas-state-wildcats-32930\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Texas Longhorns vs. Kansas State Wildcats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas Longhorns vs. Kansas State Wildcats
\nSaturday, 2\/8\/14, 1:30 PM EST
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The Kansas State Wildcats have won 11 straight home games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Texas has won seven games in a row, including a 59-54 victory over the TCU Horned Frogs as nine-point road favorites Tuesday, while going UNDER the betting total for the third time in four contests.\u00a0 The Longhorns posted a +31 rebounding margin last time out, which is important to consider when making your college basketball betting picks, as the program has won the battle of the boards in 17 of 22 games.\u00a0 Offensively, the team has four probable starters averaging in double figures, with junior forward Jonathan Holmes leading the way at 13.7 points a contest.\u00a0 Texas is 4-1 ATS in its last five games versus a team with a winning SU record.<\/p>\n

The Longhorns are 11-16 SU all-time against the Wildcats, including an 11-11 mark since the two teams started meeting as Big 12 Conference rivals.\u00a0 Texas has allowed an average of 65.1 points per game on a combined 38.3 percent shooting against conference foes.\u00a0 Entering Saturday\u2019s contest, the program ranks seventh nationally in averaging 6.7 blocks per game.<\/p>\n

Kansas State has dropped three of its last four games, including a 81-71 defeat to the West Virginia Mountaineers as four-point road underdogs last Saturday, while going OVER the betting total of 133.5.\u00a0 The Wildcats have won 11 straight games at Bramlage Coliseum, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college basketball odds page.\u00a0 The squad has won seven of its last 10 home games versus top-25 opponents.\u00a0 Kansas State is 21-6-1 ATS in its last 28 home games versus a team with a winning road record.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats lead the Big 12 and rank in the top 25 nationally in allowing just 62.0 points per game and holding opponents to 28.9 percent shooting from beyond the arc.\u00a0 Kansas State has also managed to score 70-plus points in nine of its last 13 games, including five times in conference play.\u00a0 Freshman guard Marcus Foster is the main threat on the offensive end, as he averages 13.9 points in 28.1 minutes of action.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Wildcats due to the favorite covering the number in four of the last five meetings in this series.<\/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 Longhorns vs. Kansas State Wildcats Saturday, 2\/8\/14, 1:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 N\/A Current Betting Line:\u00a0 N\/A Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Texas has won seven games in a row, including a 59-54 victory over the TCU Horned Frogs as nine-point road favorites Tuesday, while going UNDER the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3267,6324,6005,2807,7846,496],"class_list":["post-32930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-12-conference","tag-bramlage-coliseum","tag-jonathan-holmes","tag-kansas-state-wildcats","tag-marcus-foster","tag-texas-longhorns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32930","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=32930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32931,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32930\/revisions\/32931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}