{"id":36445,"date":"2014-11-25T19:15:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T00:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=36445"},"modified":"2014-11-25T19:34:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T00:34:31","slug":"college-basketball-picks-oklahoma-sooners-vs-ucla-bruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-oklahoma-sooners-vs-ucla-bruins-36445\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Oklahoma Sooners vs. UCLA Bruins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oklahoma Sooners vs. UCLA Bruins
\nWednesday, 11\/26\/14, 2:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma -1.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma -3.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Oklahoma Sooners will be led by guard Buddy Hield in the Battle 4 Atlantis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oklahoma has alternated wins and losses in its first three games to start the 2014-15 campaign, as it comes off a 90-68 victory over Northwestern State Sunday.\u00a0 The Sooners have three of five probable starters averaging in double figures, which is important to consider when making your college basketball betting picks, with junior guard Buddy Hield leading the way in scoring 20.7 points a contest.\u00a0 He\u2019s the main player to handicap in this matchup due to hailing from the Freeport, Bahamas area.\u00a0 Oklahoma is 1-5 ATS in its last six non-conference affairs.<\/p>\n

The Sooners got a major boost before the season began by learning that forward TaShawn Thomas would be eligible, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college basketball lines, as he averaged 14.5 points and 8.7 rebounds in three seasons with the Houston Cougars.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that the program has dropped its previous three all-time meetings in this series, but each of those took place in Southern California and the last instance came in 1974-75.<\/p>\n

UCLA has captured its first four games of the season, as it prepares to play away from Pauley Pavilion for the first time.\u00a0 The Bruins are coming off an impressive 77-63 victory over Long Beach State as 10-point home favorites Sunday, while going UNDER the betting total of 152.5.\u00a0 Offensively, the main player to watch is senior Norman Powell, who was recently named the Pac-12 Player of the Week by averaging 23.5 points, 5.5 rebounds and 3.0 steals.\u00a0 UCLA is 5-1 ATS in its last six games on a neutral floor.<\/p>\n

The Bruins have been pleased with the early play of point guard Bryce Alford, who is second on the team in averaging 20.0 points, while he leads the team in dishing out 9.8 assists per contest.\u00a0 UCLA also has one of the best young players in the country, with Kevin Looney becoming the first true freshman in school history to record at least three double-doubles in his first four collegiate games.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Sooners due to the Bruins being 4-9 ATS in their last 13 games versus Big 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":"

Oklahoma Sooners vs. UCLA Bruins Wednesday, 11\/26\/14, 2:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma -1.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma -3.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Oklahoma has alternated wins and losses in its first three games to start the 2014-15 campaign, as it comes off a 90-68 victory over Northwestern […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":26028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[7180,8037,8679,408,5263,11],"class_list":["post-36445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-battle-4-atlantis","tag-buddy-hield","tag-norman-powell","tag-oklahoma-sooners","tag-pac-12-conference","tag-ucla-bruins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36445","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=36445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36449,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36445\/revisions\/36449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}