{"id":7711,"date":"2009-01-27T13:56:51","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T18:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=7711"},"modified":"2023-02-07T07:11:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T15:11:43","slug":"kentucky-mississippi-betting-preview-270109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/sports\/kentucky-mississippi-betting-preview-270109\/","title":{"rendered":"Sportsbook.com: Kentucky vs. Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>NCAAB: KENTUCKY FAVORED IN SEC BATTLE<\/h2>\n<p>The Kentucky Wildcats are the only undefeated team in the SEC as they get ready to play at Mississippi tonight.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sportsbook.com<\/span><\/strong> has Kentucky (16-4, 10-4 ATS) as a <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">nine-point favorite <\/span><\/strong>with a Total of 142.5. ESPN will have the coverage starting at 7 pm ET.<\/p>\n<p>After another sluggish start to the regular season, the duo of Jodie Meeks and Patrick Patterson has sparked the Wildcats, and the rest of the team has found a rhythm in being role players and doing their respective jobs.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Kentucky is ranked for the first time in 15 months and their unmerciful half-court defense can really bottle up the opposition, with teams shooting 36.4% against them. The \u2018Cats are 16-6 ATS in conference conflicts the last two years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 1px; border: 1px solid #FFFFFF;\" title=\"Sportsbook.com\" src=\"http:\/\/affiliates.commissionaccount.com\/processing\/impressions.asp?btag=a_2744b_41\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Online Sports Betting at Sportsbook\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mississippi is 8-2 and 4-2 ATS at Tad Smith Coliseum, despite losing their three best backcourt players before the turn of the calendar. In the first two weeks of this season, the Rebels lost a pair of guards, sophomore Trevor Gaskins and junior Eniel Polynice, to knee injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Warren, the team\u2019s leading scorer last season as a freshman, tore the ACL in his left knee on December 18th.<\/p>\n<p>Mississippi (10-9 and 9-6 ATS) doesn\u2019t impress anyone, other than the coach by hustling and giving everything they have, being stripped of so much talent. The Rebels are 9-0 ATS in home games when playing against teams with a win percentage of 60-80% after 15 or more games.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Billy Gillispie\u2019s Wildcats are 8-2 ATS after playing a game as a favorite and 6-0 ATS in road games after one or more consecutive wins this season.<\/p>\n<p>Mississippi has lost three SEC games in a row, though has covered the latter two on the road. The Rebels are 7-0 ATS in home games after two or more consecutive Overs over the last three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky has beaten Ole Miss nine straight times (6-3 ATS) and has taken four of five at Oxford with three covers, with the Wildcats owning the all-time series lead 95-11.<\/p>\n<h3>Power Line \u2013 Kentucky by 10<\/h3>\n<h3>BET ON TODAY\u2019S KENTUCKY VS. MISSISSIPPI HOOPS MATCHUP AT THE BIGGEST SPORTSBOOK ONLINE &#8211; SPORTSBOOK.COM &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kentucky Wildcats are the only undefeated team in the SEC as they get ready to play at Mississippi tonight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1415,1141],"tags":[4816,6249,8885,6250,4452,9394,9393,4208,4213,6999,8887,4691,6251,66516,1178,8884,9395,9392],"class_list":["post-7711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ncaa-basketball","category-sports","tag-bet-on-college-basketball","tag-bet-on-ncaab","tag-cbb-gambling","tag-cbb-odds","tag-college-hoops","tag-kentucky-vs-mississippi","tag-kentucky-wildcats-vs-mississippi-rebels","tag-ncaa-basketball-betting","tag-ncaa-basketball-point-spreads","tag-ncaab-betting-predictions","tag-ncaab-hoops-betting","tag-ncaab-predictions","tag-online-cbb-betting","tag-point-spreads","tag-sportsbookcom","tag-sportsbookcom-cbb-gambling","tag-tuesday-college-hoops-picks","tag-wildcats-vs-rebels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7711","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=7711"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106670,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7711\/revisions\/106670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}