The Missouri Tigers are off to a hot start and haven\u2019t been beat yet. \u00a0In fact, they haven\u2019t even been challenged, with each victory by at least 15 points. \u00a0This team may have a new coach but they are still one of the most aggressive and athletic teams out there. <\/p>\n
Tuesday December 6 Missouri<\/strong><\/p>\n They have amazing quickness and if their shots are falling they can bury opponents in a hurry. \u00a0They are especially deep in the backcourt where they have many scoring options and quick defenders who go from defense to offense in a heart beat.<\/p>\n Their weakness is up front where they have almost no size, especially for Big 6 team. \u00a0Ricardo Ratliffe is very active but he is only 6\u20198\u201d and it remains to be seen what they will get from Steve Moore, their biggest big. \u00a0What we do know is that you will have to hustle the entire game to beat the rest of these guys. \u00a0They have three guards that average more than 4 boards per game and If you don\u2019t own the glass against them they will kill you before you have a chance to call a timeout. [soliloquy id=”82219″]<\/p>\n Villanova<\/strong><\/p>\n There is a changing of the guard at Villanova – literally. \u00a0Out are Corey Fisher and Corey Stokes with the Wildcats clearly becoming Maalik Wayns team. \u00a0The junior guard has answered the bell and upped his scoring to almost 19 per game and with Mouphatou Yarou the Wildcats have a very good inside outside duo that should enable them to hold their own most nights in the Big East.<\/p>\n What this team doesn\u2019t have is the kind of depth they did over the last few years when their sometimes 4 guard attack made things very uncomfortable for their opponents. \u00a0They already have two losses this season to St. Louis and Santa Clara. \u00a0The former is nothing to be ashamed of but the latter is a team they would have crushed in recent years. \u00a0This is a good but not great team still figuring itself out. \u00a0They are not at home against Mizzou, which would have helped, but as a member of the Big East they are accustomed to games at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n Spread Pick: Villanova #10 Tigers (7-0) vs Wildcats (5-2) The Missouri Tigers are off to a hot start and haven\u2019t been beat yet. \u00a0In fact, they haven\u2019t even been challenged, with each victory by at least 15 points. \u00a0This team may have a new coach but they are still one of the most aggressive and athletic teams out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":33223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncaa-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46297,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46277\/revisions\/46297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMadison Square Garden
\n7:00PM
\nMoneyline:
\nSpread: \u00a0Missouri -6.5
\nO\/U: \u00a0148.5<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nO\/U Pick: \u00a0Over
\nScore Prediction – Missouri 77 – Villanova 73<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"