{"id":11115,"date":"2010-11-30T15:38:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T20:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11115"},"modified":"2010-11-30T15:38:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T20:38:17","slug":"college-basketball-picks-north-carolina-tar-heels-at-illinois-fighting-illini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-north-carolina-tar-heels-at-illinois-fighting-illini-11115\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: North Carolina Tar Heels at Illinois Fighting Illini"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Carolina Tar Heels at Illinois Fighting Illini
\nTuesday, 11\/30\/10, 9:30 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Illinois -5.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Illinois -6.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 147.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 148.5
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Illinois -275 \/ North Carolina +23<\/strong>5<\/p>\n

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North Carolina is a 6.5-point road underdog in facing the Illinois Fighting Illini in the ACC\/Big Ten Challenge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

North Carolina will play its first road game of the 2010-11 season on Tuesday night when it visits Assembly Hall in Champaign, Illinois for a ACC-Big Ten Challenge contest against Illinois.\u00a0 This is the fourth time the Illini and Tar Heels are meeting in the Challenge, with tonight\u2019s home team holding a 2-1 advantage.\u00a0 The last matchup was on November 29, 2005 when the Illini won 68-64 in Chapel Hill.\u00a0 North Carolina leads the all-time series 4-3.\u00a0 The Tar Heels have gone 3-0 at home on the year and 1-2 in a trio of neutral site games in the Puerto Rico Tip-Off the week before Thanksgiving.\u00a0 The team will be playing its second game in three nights after beating College of Charleston 74-69 at home on Sunday night.\u00a0 Carolina is 31-43 ATS over the last three years and the NCAA basketball lines page has them as an underdog tonight.<\/p>\n

Tar Heels head coach Roy Williams has a career record of 4-3 against the Fighting Illini, including a 2-1 mark at Carolina and 2-2 record at Kansas.\u00a0 He has never coached a game against Illinois in Champaign as a head coach.\u00a0 The program has won six of its seven games in the Challenge since he became head coach in Chapel Hill, including wins in four straight.\u00a0 That is a vast improvement from the squad\u2019s 0-4 mark in the first four years of the event.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that the Tar Heels 2010-11 roaster does not included a scholarship senior and is the first team since 2003-04 without one.<\/p>\n

Illinois has produced a 4-7 all-time record in the Challenge and this will be the fifth time it has played at home, producing an even 2-2 mark in the previous four games.\u00a0 The Fighting Illini have won three straight games since losing to Texas at Madison Square Garden and are second in the Big Ten in scoring at 80.4 points per game.\u00a0 The team is coming off an impressive 78-63 road win over Western Michigan, committing a season-low 10 turnovers in the contest.\u00a0 \u201cWe had it all going, offense, defense, transition,\u201d said head coach Bruce Weber.\u00a0 Illinois is 4-3 ATS as a favorite this year and 21-24 ATS over the last three campaigns.<\/p>\n

The Fighting Illini have been dominant at home offensively, shooting 53.1 percent in four games at Assembly Hall.\u00a0 Illinois is outscoring opponents by an average of 25.3 points in home games.\u00a0 One of the reasons for the team\u2019s dominance over opponents early on has been the bench, outscoring the opposing bench in every game this season.\u00a0 The reserves are averaging 28.9 points per game, outscoring the opponents\u2019 reserves by an average of 13.8 points per contest.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Tar Heels are 7-1 ATS versus the Big Ten, while the Fighting Illini are 1-4 ATS versus the ACC.<\/p>\n

The college basketball handicappers at Maddux Sports are rolling this season and ready for you to join them today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

North Carolina Tar Heels at Illinois Fighting Illini Tuesday, 11\/30\/10, 9:30 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Illinois -5.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Illinois -6.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 147.5 Current Total:\u00a0 148.5 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Illinois -275 \/ North Carolina +235 North Carolina will play its first road game of the 2010-11 season on Tuesday night when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[387,4011,737,697,32,754],"class_list":["post-11115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-assembly-hall","tag-big-ten","tag-illinois-fighting-illini","tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","tag-roy-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11115","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=11115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11117,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11115\/revisions\/11117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}