{"id":10901,"date":"2010-11-22T12:36:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T17:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10901"},"modified":"2010-11-22T12:36:31","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T17:36:31","slug":"duke-blue-devils-vs-marquette-golden-eagles-college-basketball-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/duke-blue-devils-vs-marquette-golden-eagles-college-basketball-predictions-10901\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke Blue Devils vs Marquette Golden Eagles College Basketball Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Duke Blue Devils vs Marquette Golden Eagles
\nMonday, 11\/22\/10, 7:30 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Duke -12
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Duke -12
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 145
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 147<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Duke Blue Devils are double-digit favorites and looking to open a season 4-0 for the 21st time under Coach K.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Duke faces Marquette on Monday night at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri in semifinals of the O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic.\u00a0 The Blue Devils have dominated Princeton, Miami of Ohio and Colgate by an average of 41.0 points on its way into tonight\u2019s contest, with freshman Kyrie Irving offering early help in trying to help the program win its second straight NCAA title.\u00a0 He ranks second on the team in averaging 14.3 points per game, ranking second to backcourt mate Nolan Smith.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re both trying to get double-doubles every night,\u201d said Irving.\u00a0 \u201cWe can definitely do it on this team.\u201d\u00a0 Duke is now 5-1 in this tournament and its only loss was a 73-62 defeat to Marquette in the 2006 championship game.\u00a0 The team is 7-1 ATS as a favorite and currently laying double-digits tonight.<\/p>\n

The Blue Devils are looking to open the season 4-0 for the 21st time under Coach K and has won 25 consecutive games in November.\u00a0 Duke has also enjoyed great success on a neutral court, winning 13 straight games dating back to a 77-54 loss to Villanova in the 2009 NCAA Tournament.\u00a0 The aforementioned backcourt of Irving and Smith are combined to average 30.3 points per game.\u00a0 The team is also the only team in the ACC with five double-figure scorers.\u00a0 Picking this team to win the entire tournament is likely a safe bet, as Duke has won 13 in-season tournament titles under Mike Krzyzewski.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is averaging 95.3 points and owns a near 2-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio.<\/p>\n

Marquette will be playing its 248th game against a ranked opponent when it faces off against the Blue Devils tonight, posting a 99-148 mark in those games and 39-95 record versus top 10 programs.\u00a0 \u201cOur mindset is that we really can\u2019t go wrong, everyone has picked us to lose,\u201d said senior Jimmy Butler.\u00a0 \u201cI think if we go out and execute, plays as an underdog and play as hard as we can, I don\u2019t see why we can\u2019t come out on top of that game.\u201d\u00a0 The Golden Eagles are 1-6 in school history versus teams ranked No. 1 and 2-5 all-time against the Blue Devils.\u00a0 The team is 6-1 ATS in their last seven games as an underdog.<\/p>\n

The Golden Eagles have faced the defending national champions on seven occasions all-time, but not since the 1989-90 campaign.\u00a0 Marquette was defeated by Michigan 82-73 that season and each of the seven such meetings has resulted in a loss.\u00a0 Don\u2019t count this program out in this event due to their 19-3 overall record since 2004-05 in multi-team events, including a trio of championships.\u00a0 One major hurdle that the team must get over in hopes of pulling off an upset is its three-point shooting, as it ranks 16th in the Big East in 3-point field goal percentage and has collected just 13 treys in four games.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Blue Devils are 4-11-1 ATS versus the Big East, while the Golden Eagles are 1-4 ATS in their last five neutral site games.<\/p>\n

The college basketball handicappers at Maddux Sports are off to a tremendous start this year and ready to continue that run tonight!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Duke Blue Devils vs Marquette Golden Eagles Monday, 11\/22\/10, 7:30 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Duke -12 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Duke -12 Opening Total:\u00a0 145 Current Total:\u00a0 147 Duke faces Marquette on Monday night at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri in semifinals of the O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic.\u00a0 The Blue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[387,559,607,3945,3943,1661,1205,3944],"class_list":["post-10901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-big-east","tag-duke-blue-devils","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-marquette-golden-eagles","tag-mike-krzyzewski","tag-nolan-smith","tag-oreilly-auto-parts-cbe-classic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10902,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10901\/revisions\/10902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}