Thursday, May 17th, 2012
It will be a Big 12 conference showdown when the Kansas St Wildcats hit the road to face the Texas Longhorns in an NCAA college basketball game on Monday night.
Start time from Texas is scheduled for 9PM Eastern Time and its ESPN providing the national television broadcast.
The point spread opened up with the home team Texas Longhorns favored by -8 ½ points with an over under of 135 points.
The early money from the NCAA betting public has come on home team as Texas is now up to a -9 ½ point favorite. The over under has not moved off the opener of 135 points.
Texas Longhorns money line gamblers will lay -450 odds with the road underdog Kansas St Wildcats returning +350 odds to earn the straight up win without the need for taking the points.
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This is the first meeting of the season between Kansas St and Texas.
They met just once last year and it was the Kansas St Wildcats with the 71-62 home victory against the Texas Longhorns as a -1 point home favorite. The total went under the closing number of 158 ½ points.
Kansas St shot just 38.5% from the field in their win and a very poor 1 of 12 from the three point line. The Wildcats won the battle of the boards by a 42-34 margin. The team survived 12 misses out of 32 from the three throw line.
Jamar Samuels led the Wildcats with 20 points on 8 of 13 shooting and 12 big rebounds. Curtis Kelly contributed with 17 points on 6 of 10 from the floor and 8 boards.
Texas shot poorly in the loss sinking just 36.8% of their shots and 3 of 11 from three. The Longhorns were miserable from the charity stripe with 13 misses in 22 attempts.
Both teams were sloppy with 18 turnovers each.
Avery Bradley led the Longhorns with 11 points on 5 of 12 shooting and five rebounds. Bradley was the only Longhorn in double figures for the game. Damion James finished with 9 points on 3 of 12 from the field and 7 boards.
Kansas St travels to Texas with a record of 20-9. The club is 4-5 on the road.
The Wildcats are 8-6 in the Big 12 conference and sitting tied with Missouri for fourth place.
Since starting out slowly in the Big 12 conference action of their schedule the Wildcats have rallied to post four straight victories and 6 of 7 and have moved from a bubble club to a more comfortable position for an NCAA berth. They have helped themselves more than any bubble club as of late for a bid into the tournament.
The team is coming off an 80-70 home victory against the Missouri Tigers on Saturday as a -4 ½ point favorite.
The Wildcats enjoyed a good shooting night making 51.9% of their shots and 7 of 13 from three. The club crushed the Tigers on the glass by a 34-21 difference. They held Missouri to just 40.7% shooting.
Jacob Pullen led Kansas St with 24 points on 6 of 10 shooting and 8 of 9 from the free throw line. Curtis Kelly contributed with 15 points on a very good 7 of 9 from the floor.
Texas hosts Kansas St with a record of 24-5 on the season. The team is 16-1 at home.
The Longhorns are 12-2 in the Big 12 conference and tied with Kansas with just two more conference games remaining. Texas owns the tiebreaker by winning the head to head battle.
The Longhorns have struggled dropping two of their past three games with both losses on the road. The team is coming off a 91-89 road defeat to Colorado as a -6 point favorite on Saturday.
Texas blew a 15 point halftime lead in the loss and allowed the Buffaloes 58 points in the second half.
The Longhorns made 42.6% of their shots and 11 of 23 from three. The team shot itself in the foot missing 14 of 34 free throws. They lost the rebounding battle by four boards. Texas gave up 53.3% shooting to Colorado.
The team was led in scoring by both Jordan Hamilton and J’Covan Brown who had 21 points. Hamilton was a volume shooter in defeat making just 7 of 24 of his shots from the field. The Longhorns had five players in double digits.
Trend: Kansas St Wildcats are 1-8 ATS in their past 9 road games.
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