Oklahoma Sooners versus Oklahoma St Cowboys Big 12 Tournament College Basketball Sports Betting Odds Pick Preview

Published on March 10, 2010 by admin · No Comments

The Oklahoma Sooners will do battle with in state rival the Oklahoma St Cowboys in a first round match up of the Big 12 Tournament on Wednesday night. They tip off this contest at the Sprint Center in Kansas City Missouri at 7PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by the college basketball package.

The LVSC college basketball odds makers have set the opening point spread in this contest and it was the Oklahoma St Cowboys opening up as a 6 point betting favorite with the over under coming in at 140.

This Big 12 conference game saw the early money come on the side of the favorite, as the Oklahoma St Cowboys are currently a 7-point favorite. The total has seen the early movement upward, as the over under is lined at 142 ½ for the bettors to play into.

Money line bettors on the side of the Oklahoma St Cowboys will receive –310 odds with the underdog Oklahoma Sooners bringing back +260 to win this game without the aid of getting the points.

This will be the third meeting this season between these schools. They met on January 11th and it was the Oklahoma Sooners with the 62-57 home victory over the Oklahoma St Cowboys as a 1 ½ point home favorite. The Cowboys were ice cold from the field in defeat hitting on just 27.5% of their shots. The teams then met on February 13th at Oklahoma St and it was the home team Cowboys with the 97-76 blowout revenge victory as an 8-point favorite. Oklahoma St found their good shooting form in victory by hitting on 54.1% shooting from the field.

Oklahoma St sits on the bubble into the dance with a 21-9 straight up record and 9-7 in Big 12 conference play. They tied for 6th in the Big 12 with Texas. Oklahoma St would appear to need a few wins in this tournament to avoid a good sweat on Selection Sunday. Oklahoma St has won 5 of their past 7 games entering Big 12 tournament play. The team is coming off an impressive 74-55 home victory over the Nebraska Cornhuskers as an 11-½ point betting favorite. The Cowboys shot well hitting on 46.3% of their shots in victory. Guard James Anderson led the Cowboys with 25 points on 9 of 15 from the field in victory on Saturday.

It is a miserable season for the Oklahoma Sooners as they sit at 13-17 overall and 4-12 in Big 12 conference action. The team has no shot for an at large bid to any post season tournament this season. The Sooners have really tanked down the stretch, as they are losers of 8 straight games to close the season. They are coming off a bad 69-54 home loss to the Texas A&M Aggies on Saturday as a 3-½ point underdog. It was another horrid defensive performance for the Sooners allowing 51% shooting. The Sooners have allowed their past 7 opponents to shoot no worse than 50% of their shots. Leading scorer freshman guard Tommy Mason-Griffin has been an inefficient shooter hitting just 21 of 71 of his shots over his past 5 games.

Trend: Oklahoma St Cowboys are 11-1 ATS as a favorite this season

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