CLICK GRAB OUR BEST Expert CBB Picks for 2013 MARCH MADNESS GAMBLING season!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nThe team didn\u2019t look the same without him, and while he was back on the court in time of the tournament, people questioned how good his conditioning and mechanics would be.<\/p>\n
If Oregon proved anything against Oklahoma State, it\u2019s that Artis is fine. The guard pushed the tempo all game long, and that\u2019s something he\u2019ll look to do again on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Along with pushing the tempo, Oregon has the size and toughness to force turnovers on defense. They have a great tandem inside in Arsalan Kazemi and Tony Woods, and the two of them will create extra opportunities, leading to fast-break situations.<\/p>\n
St. Louis Billikens<\/h3>\n
The St. Louis Billikens have size, but their bigs are more equipped to play on the perimeter than they are in the post. This is a dangerous way to live life in the tournament, but it\u2019s also a great way to avoid the low-post presence of the Ducks. [ad-6571516]<\/p>\n
One of the benefits of playing the bigs outside is that it opens up lanes for cutters and isolation sets. This team can get into the paint with its guards for that reason, and against an Oregon team that plays a lot of man-to-man, keeping Kazemi and Woods away from the basket will be the plan of attack.<\/p>\n
Despite staying away from the paint on offense, St. Louis\u2019 bigs won\u2019t be afraid to use their size defensively. This group knows how to attack the ball, and when it comes down to it, their big guys will make Oregon\u2019s offense\u2014one that struggles from the outside\u2014uncomfortable.<\/p>\n
The Ducks were able to rattle the backcourt of Oklahoma State, but they\u2019ll have trouble doing the same thing against the Billikens. St. Louis is projected to go deep into the tournament for a reason, and that reason is their precision and patience on offense.<\/p>\n
If Oregon has trouble interrupting the flow of the Billikens\u2019 ball movement, St. Louis should be moving on.<\/p>\n
Prediction: St. Louis 69 \u2013 Oregon 60<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ducks vs. Billikens NCAA Tourney Spread\/Handicapping The No. 12 Oregon Ducks pulled a classic 12-5 upset in round 2, but now they\u2019ll have to face a team that a lot of people have pegged to make a deep run far into the tournament. The St. Louis Billikens are ranked No. 4 in the Midwest Region, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":26384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1415],"tags":[58590,58454,58591,58592,58593,58453,6530,53982,11721,58455,10943,58594,58595],"class_list":["post-61088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-3013-march-madness","tag-college-basketball-betting-picks","tag-ducks-billikens-free-prediction","tag-ducks-billikens-picks","tag-ducks-vs-billikens","tag-free-college-basketball-hoops-prediction","tag-free-college-basketball-picks","tag-midwest-bracket-predictions","tag-midwest-region","tag-ncaa-basketball-betting-prediction","tag-ncaa-tournament-handicapping","tag-oregon-ducks-vs-st-louis-billikens","tag-oregon-ducks-vs-st-louis-billikens-odds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61088","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61091,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61088\/revisions\/61091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}