{"id":10921,"date":"2010-11-23T14:24:54","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T19:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10921"},"modified":"2010-11-23T14:24:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T19:24:54","slug":"duke-blue-devils-vs-kansas-state-wildcats-ncaa-basketball-expert-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/duke-blue-devils-vs-kansas-state-wildcats-ncaa-basketball-expert-picks-10921\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke Blue Devils vs Kansas State Wildcats NCAA Basketball Expert Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Duke Blue Devils vs Kansas State Wildcats
\nTuesday, 11\/23\/10, 10:00 PM EDT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Duke -6
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Duke -5.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 155
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 155<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Duke Blue Devils have won 26-straight November games and face a difficult challenge in playing the Kansas State Wildcats in their backyard tonight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Duke certainly knows it will be going against a partisan crowd in the opponent\u2019s favor on Tuesday night after picking up an 82-77 victory over Marquette.\u00a0 \u201cI thought the best seven minutes of the game were from the 10-minute mark to the three-minute mark for us,\u201d said head coach Mike Krzyzewski.\u00a0 \u201cThere was a lot of game pressure.\u00a0 The game got tied.\u00a0 I thought out kids responded beautifully to that type of pressure.\u201d\u00a0 The Blue Devils will now look to open the season 5-0 for the 19th time under Coach K and they have won 14 consecutive games.\u00a0 Even more impressive is the squad\u2019s 26-game winning streak in November and 106-10 all-time record in the month under Krzyzewski\u2019s watch.\u00a0 Duke is 5-1 ATS in its last six meetings with the Big 12 conference and is listed as a single-digit favorite on the college basketball lines page.<\/p>\n

The Blue Devils will not be intimidated by this neutral court environment, winning 14 straight games on a neutral floor.\u00a0 Coach K also brings in a 19-11 record when playing a game with both teams ranked in the top five.\u00a0 The team has won three straight such matchups.\u00a0 Few teams are going to be able to contain this team offensively during the 2010-11 campaign, especially considering its the only offense in the ACC that has six double-figure scorers.\u00a0 Highlighting this balance is the fact that the team has had a different leading scorer in all four games this year.<\/p>\n

Kansas State picked up a lopsided 81-64 victory over No. 22 Gonzaga in the semifinals of the CBE Classic and has the luxury of playing at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri, a venue that is just a two-hour drive away from Manhattan.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s a great opportunity even though it\u2019s early in the season,\u201d guard Rodney McGruder said.\u00a0 \u201cThis is basically a home game for us, we have a lot of our fans here.\u00a0 It will be a great experience.\u201d\u00a0 The team has posted a 6-2 all-time mark at the Sprint Center and has lived up to being favorites to win the Big 12 Conference this year.\u00a0 Kansas State is 7-2-1 ATS in its last 10 neutral site games.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats have plenty of expectations to live up to and head coach Frank Martin is certainly aware of the possible distractions it may cause during the season.\u00a0 \u201cAll that\u2019s great and dandy and it makes for news in the preseason,\u201d he commented.\u00a0 \u201cBut the reality is that when we play 16 games against Big 12 opponents, I wish they told their teams, \u2018Hey, they\u2019re better than us.\u00a0 Don\u2019t play as hard.\u201d\u00a0 Guard Jacob Pullen must have a special game to pull off the upset tonight, as he\u2019s scored in double figures in 37 consecutive games.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Wildcats are 0-2-2 ATS in their last four neutral site games as an underdog, while the Blue Devils are 5-2 ATS in their last seven such games as a favorite.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a great week for hardcourt action and the college basketball handicappers at Maddux Sports are ready to deliver winning selections each and every day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Duke Blue Devils vs Kansas State Wildcats Tuesday, 11\/23\/10, 10:00 PM EDT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Duke -6 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Duke -5.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 155 Current Total:\u00a0 155 Duke certainly knows it will be going against a partisan crowd in the opponent\u2019s favor on Tuesday night after picking up an 82-77 victory over Marquette.\u00a0 \u201cI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[738,1389,607,3946,3880,2807,1661,3959],"class_list":["post-10921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-12","tag-coach-k","tag-duke-blue-devils","tag-frank-martin","tag-jacob-pullen","tag-kansas-state-wildcats","tag-mike-krzyzewski","tag-sprint-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921","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=10921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10922,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921\/revisions\/10922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}