{"id":13010,"date":"2011-02-01T20:20:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T01:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13010"},"modified":"2011-02-01T20:20:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T01:20:32","slug":"acc-clash-north-carolina-tarheels-at-boston-college-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/acc-clash-north-carolina-tarheels-at-boston-college-eagles-13010\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC Clash: North Carolina Tarheels at Boston College Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Carolina AT Boston College
\nFebruary 1st, 2011 at 9 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 NC -3
\nCurrent Line: NC -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 147.5
\nCurrent Total: 148.5
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 UNC -140 \/ BC +120
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0\u00a0 UNC -150 \/ BC +130<\/strong><\/p>\n

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John Henson and the North Carolina Tarheels are 3 point favorites over ACC rival Boston College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

UNC enters tonight’s game ranked 23rd in the Top 25 rankings and Boston College isn’t ranked.\u00a0 But that doesn’t mean much.\u00a0 The Boston College Eagles have won 10 of their last 11 at home and UNC has not won at Boston College since March 1, 2008.\u00a0 Moreover, Boston College won the last matchup between the teams in their only game last year 71-67.<\/p>\n

North Carolina sits at second in the ACC with a 5-1 conference record, while Boston College sports a 4-3 ACC record, 4th best in the conference.<\/p>\n

Over the last three game, the Tarheels have averaged 77.7 points and shot 47.3% from the floor, slightly higher than their season shooting percentage of 45%.<\/p>\n

UNC is expecting big things from freshman Harrison Barnes, who has displayed the inconsistency mixed with greatness that phenom freshman often do.\u00a0 \u201cHe\u2019s a gifted young man who\u2019s been wanting to break out,\u201d coach Roy Williams said. \u201cI had a hunch that he might play better because he\u2019s gone through all those other experiences, and he\u2019s the kind of young man who learns from those things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

North Carolina is 4-1 SU in their past 5 road games and the total has gone UNDER in 5 of their last 6 on the road.<\/p>\n

Boston College is 11-5 SU in their last 16 games and 10-1 SU in their last 11 home games.\u00a0 They are 2-4 SU in their last 6 games against UNC and the total has gone UNDER in 5 of the last 6 games between the teams.<\/p>\n

UNC is led by the trio of the aforementioned Harrison Barnes, Tyler Zeller, and John Henson.\u00a0 Between the three of them they average 37.1 points per game, for nearly half (48% here) of\u00a0 UNC’s scoring production.\u00a0 UNC is a very deep team.\u00a0 They have 10 players who all play 12 minutes a game or more, and no one averages more than 27 minutes (Barnes leads the team with 27 minutes a game).\u00a0 UNC’s 7 footer Tyler Zeller leads the team in scoring with 13.8 points per game and 7.1 rebounds per night.\u00a0 He also is a fair shotblocker with 1.3 blocks per contest.\u00a0 He has scored in double figures in all but 3 UNC games and recorded a season high 27 points against Kentucky, bolstered by his 11 rebounds and 5 blocks.\u00a0 Boston College doesn’t really have anyone capable of guarding Zeller (few do), as they only have one player on their team over 6’8″\u00a0 That would be 6’10” senior center Josh Southern, who at the moment only averages 19.7 minutes a game.\u00a0 He may see extended action tonight to counter act Zeller.<\/p>\n

Boston College is led by 6’3″ junior guard Reggie Jackson.\u00a0 Jackson puts up 18.5 points per game, 5 assists, 4.4 rebounds and shoots 44% from three.\u00a0 He has scored in double figures in every game except their last game against Duke.\u00a0 He’s scored 20 or more 8 times and is capable of having big nights from three point range.\u00a0 Joe Trapani will probably find himself matched up with Zeller from time to time, as he is 6’8″ and Boston College’s best interior player.\u00a0 He puts up 14.1 points himself and averages 7 rebounds per game, as well.\u00a0 Over his last 5 games he is averaging 9.6 rebounds per game and BC is going to need him to play like that tonight, as UNC averages 13.9 offensive rebounds a game.\u00a0 If Boston College doesn’t do well on the boards, they could be in for a long night.<\/p>\n

Tonight’s game should be extremely close. UNC is the better of the two teams, but Tonight’s game should be extremely close. UNC is the better of the two teams, but Boston College is extremely tough at home and they aren’t far from being in the AP Top 25 themselves.<\/p>\n

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North Carolina AT Boston College February 1st, 2011 at 9 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 NC -3 Current Line: NC -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 147.5 Current Total: 148.5 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 UNC -140 \/ BC +120 Current Moneyline:\u00a0\u00a0 UNC -150 \/ BC +130 UNC enters tonight’s game ranked 23rd in the Top 25 rankings and Boston College isn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":9777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3110,3896,3320],"class_list":["post-13010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-boston-college-eagles","tag-harrison-barnes","tag-north-carolina-tarheels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13010","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\/40250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13012,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13010\/revisions\/13012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}