{"id":12918,"date":"2011-01-30T02:32:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T07:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=12918"},"modified":"2011-01-30T10:55:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T15:55:16","slug":"sunday-college-basketball-tv-picks-duke-at-st-johns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/sunday-college-basketball-tv-picks-duke-at-st-johns-12918\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday College Basketball TV Picks: Duke at St. John’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Duke Blue Devils at St. John’s Red Storm, Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
\nSunday, January 30, 2011, 1:00 pm Eastern, TV: CBS
\nOpening Line: Duke -9
\nCurrent Line: Duke -8.5
\nOpening Total: 143
\nCurrent Total: 143
\nMoney Line: Duke -400 \/ St. John’s +330
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Duke's Nolan Smith scored a game-high 28 points in Thursday's 84-68 win over Boston College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The third-ranked Duke Blue Devils (19-1) will try to win their 21st straight game against a non-conference opponent and beat the St. John\u2019s Red Storm (11-8) for the eighth time in a row on Sunday at Madison Square Garden.\u00a0 The Red Storm will also be playing their eighth consecutive game against a Top 25 opponent, with Duke (-8.5) being the highest-ranked team during that stretch.<\/p>\n

St. John\u2019s has gone 2-5 straight-up and against the spread so far against Top 25 teams in the Big East, including three straight losses, two of which came on the road.\u00a0 The Red Storm are coming off a 77-52 loss at Georgetown on Wednesday, trailing 40-27 at halftime and never really getting back into the game.<\/p>\n

Justin Burrell scored a team-high 12 points while Dwight Hardy was the only other St. John\u2019s player to finish in double figures with 10.\u00a0 Hardy made only 4 of 16 shots from the field \u2013 including 2 of 8 from 3-point range \u2013 as the team shot a season-low 33.9 percent overall (20 of 59).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Duke is riding a four-game winning streak since suffering the team\u2019s lone loss of the season on January 12 at Florida State, 66-61.\u00a0 All four of those wins for the Blue Devils have been dominant even though they are just 2-2 against the spread during that stretch.\u00a0 The average margin of victory is 17.5 points during the winning streak with the OVER cashing three times.<\/p>\n

Seth Curry scored a season-high 20 points in Duke\u2019s 84-68 win over Boston College on Thursday.\u00a0 Curry had not scored more than eight points in the previous four games with a high of 12 in the last seven.\u00a0 He made 5 of 7 attempts from beyond the arc after missing 15 of his previous 19.\u00a0 Nolan Smith led the way with a game-high 28 points and eight assists, playing 39 minutes or more for the sixth time in eight games.<\/p>\n

The Blue Devils have enjoyed plenty of success at the Garden, winning 12 of their last 13 games there.\u00a0 While the Red Storm are 4-1 at MSG this season, they have dropped the last seven games in the series by an average of nearly 13 points.\u00a0 However, St. John\u2019s is 6-2 ATS in the last eight meetings with Duke with the UNDER cashing in eight of the past 10.\u00a0 New head coach Steve Lavin is also 1-3 lifetime against the Blue Devils from his days at UCLA.<\/p>\n

If you are betting this college basketball game between Duke & St. John’s, be sure to check out the winning basketball picks packages we offer.\u00a0 You can also get free winners on our free NCAA basketball picks page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Duke Blue Devils at St. John’s Red Storm, Madison Square Garden, New York, NY Sunday, January 30, 2011, 1:00 pm Eastern, TV: CBS Opening Line: Duke -9 Current Line: Duke -8.5 Opening Total: 143 Current Total: 143 Money Line: Duke -400 \/ St. John’s +330 The third-ranked Duke Blue Devils (19-1) will try to win […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":9805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4353,4319,3887,607,4316,4317,4318,4431,4205],"class_list":["post-12918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-acc-basketball","tag-big-east-basketball","tag-college-basketball-betting","tag-duke-blue-devils","tag-free-college-basketball-pick","tag-ncaa-basketball-odds","tag-ncaa-hoops-picks","tag-st-johns-duke-preview","tag-st-johns-red-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918","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\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12920,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918\/revisions\/12920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}