{"id":36333,"date":"2014-11-16T18:22:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T23:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=36333"},"modified":"2014-11-16T18:22:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T23:22:31","slug":"ncaa-basketball-betting-odds-preview-sam-houston-state-bearcats-vs-unlv-runnin-rebels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-betting-odds-preview-sam-houston-state-bearcats-vs-unlv-runnin-rebels-36333\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Betting Odds, Preview: Sam Houston State Bearcats vs. UNLV Runnin’ Rebels"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mountain-west-conference-2014\"<\/a>Sam Houston State vs. UNLV<\/strong>
\n Time: Sun 7 PM CST<\/strong>
\n Spread: UNLV -7.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

Betting odds courtesy of Bovada<\/p>\n

UNLV<\/h2>\n

UNLV entered last season with high expectations, and those simply were never met. They finished 20-13 and failed to make the NCAA or NIT tournaments.<\/p>\n

The Runnin\u2019 Rebels were just 10-8 in Mountain West conference play and Dave Rice is trying to fix off court issues that have plagued UNLV. The losses of Khem Birch and Roscoe Smith will be addition by subtraction.<\/p>\n

UNLV is still a team that is too small. Christian Wood is a notable exception at 6\u201911\u201d and he is a good shot blocker with nice shooting range on the offensive end. Cody Doolin is going to be counted on heavily to lead this team and he\u2019s going to have to help the influx of freshman adapt to life in the NCAA for UNLV to be a force in the conference.<\/p>\n

Doolin is a 6\u20193\u201d guard in his senior season and the Runnin\u2019 Rebels need steady play from the point guard position this season. He\u2019s a proven D-1 point guard and can run a team, so he should be able to take the talented freshmen UNLV has brought in this season and help them become a good, working team.<\/p>\n

Lacking size may be a problem for UNLV this season. Christian Wood (6\u201911\u201d) is the biggest player and will be a key rotation player for the Rebels. He\u2019s a good shot blocker and can step outside to hit jumpers. Wood should be significantly stronger after spending a lot of time in the weight room this offseason. He needs to diversify his looks instead of settling for jumpers, because Wood has the talent to make plays for himself and others in mid-range.<\/p>\n

Jerome Seagers has one season left and averaged 7.1 points and 2.8 assists in three starts last year for Rutgers. He has a lot of talent that may be developed this season, so he\u2019s worth keeping an eye on.<\/p>\n

Sam Houston State<\/h2>\n

Last season Sam Houston State made the CIT tournament and this team has the best chance of winning the Southland conference\u00a0over Stephen F. Austin. Sam Houston finished 24-11 last season with a 13-5 mark in\u00a0Southland conference games last season.<\/p>\n

The Bearcats have an experienced team, and return Freshman of the Year Zeek Woodley. He\u2019s a 6\u20192\u201d guard who will team with 6\u20199\u201d center Marvin Frazier. The Bearcats were 2nd in the NCAA in points per game last season with 86.6, and bringing in a high scoring JUCO guard in Tony Dobbinson should help Sam Houston continue to score en masse. Dobbinson averaged 22.6 points per game last season at McCook CC and he\u2019ll be instant offense off the bench initially this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sam Houston State vs. UNLV Time: Sun 7 PM CST Spread: UNLV -7.5 Betting odds courtesy of Bovada UNLV UNLV entered last season with high expectations, and those simply were never met. They finished 20-13 and failed to make the NCAA or NIT tournaments. The Runnin\u2019 Rebels were just 10-8 in Mountain West conference play […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":34684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[6030,7155,8658,7174,8657,8659,3113],"class_list":["post-36333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-college-basketball-odds","tag-college-basketball-oddsmakers","tag-mountain-west-conference-basketball","tag-ncaa-basketball-betting-preview","tag-sam-houston-state-bearcats","tag-southland-conference-basketball","tag-unlv-runnin-rebels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36333","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\/40250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36334,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36333\/revisions\/36334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}