Sports Betting – Is #3 Texas The Best Team In The Country?

With the kind of run the #3 Texas Longhorns are currently on, sports bettors are asking whether this might be the best team in the country right now. On Wednesday night, Texas gets to reinforce that thought when it visits the Oklahoma Sooners in a Big 12 game that gets underway at 9 PM ET at the Lloyd Noble Center  in Norman, OK that will be televised on ESPN2. Texas is an 11.5-point favorite in the established basketball betting odds for this game.

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#3 Texas Longhorns (20-3 SU, 14-3 ATS) at Oklahoma Sooners (12-10 SU, 7-8 ATS)

Live at Lloyd Noble Center

Norman, OK

Wednesday, February 9 — 9 PM ET

TV: ESPN2

Sports Betting Odds

Texas  -11.5

Oklahoma  +11.5

Here are the sports betting trends that pertain to this game:

• Texas has won its last eight games SU
• Texas has covered seven of its last eight games
• Texas has played seven of its last eight games UNDER the total
• Texas has covered seven of its last eight road games
• Texas has played its last five road games UNDER the total
• Oklahoma has won four of its last five games SU
• Oklahoma has played four of its last five games OVER the total
• Oklahoma has won six of its last seven home games SU

Ohio State is the #1-ranked team in the nation, and Kansas is #2, but a lot of people feel that Texas might be the best right now. Unfortunately, those people are not the voters in the two major polls, because Texas has not gotten any first-place votes. but smart sports betting fanatics know better, and they recognize that Ohio State played a weak non-conference schedule and has had a lot of close calls against middling Big Ten opposition. And of course, everybody saw that Texas rallied back from a 15-point deficit to bury Kansas and bring their 69-game home winning streak to an end. The Longhorns have played a lot of tough opponents, and haven’t lost since UConn beat them back on January 8. 

These are some of the head-to-head trends that may affect sports betting on this rivalry:

• Texas has covered eight of the last eleven meetings
• Texas has won nine of the last eleven meetings SU
• Six of the last nine meetings have gone UNDER the total
• Oklahoma has won 12 of the last 17 meetings SU as the home team
• Texas has had the shooting edge in eight of the last ten meetings
• Texas has had the rebounding edge in six of the last seven meetings

Oklahoma has a right to feel good about itself, because the Sooners are probably playing better than they have all year. OU has won four of its last five, and they scored wins over tough customers like Colorado and Baylor. They have also covered five straight sports betting decisions, and they bring a bruiser to the table in power forward Andrew Fitzgerald, along with four guard-types who also log plenty of playing time.

Under normal circumstances, we may look upon this as a Big 12 upset possibility. But not here. Texas is rolling with too much force right now. They can neutralize Fitzgerald with its own trio of frontliners who help the ‘Horns pull down 41 boards a game. Sports bettors know that they are about as good a team defensively as exists in college basketball, locking down opponents to 36.4% shooting. They have shot 50% or better in each of their last three games. Each of their eight straight wins has been by double digits, and three of them came against ranked teams. They have already recorded a 66-46 pasting of Oklahoma where they allowed the Sooners 19 points in the first half.

And Rick Barnes’ Longhorns have covered 14 of their 17 decisions thus far against the sports betting line. Lay it.

JAY’S PLAY:  TEXAS -11.5 ***
(Graded on a scale of 1-4 stars)

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