{"id":13067,"date":"2011-02-03T17:44:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T22:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13067"},"modified":"2011-02-03T18:36:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T23:36:13","slug":"acc-clash-georgia-tech-yellowjackets-at-miami-fl-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/acc-clash-georgia-tech-yellowjackets-at-miami-fl-hurricanes-13067\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC Clash: Georgia Tech Yellowjackets at Miami (FL) Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Georgia Tech Yellowjackets at Miami (FL) Hurricanes
\nFeb 3, 2011 at 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Miami -5.5
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Miami -5.5
\nOpening Total: 139.5
\nCurrent Total: 140.5
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 Mia -245 \/ Ga T +205
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Mia -250 \/ Ga T +200<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Hurricanes are 5.5 point favorites over Georgia Tech<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tonight’s game brings together an ironic juxtaposition of how you can dominate play but lose the wrong games.\u00a0 Georgia Tech, despite being at only .500 (10-10) has a 3-4 ACC record and favored Miami with a better record of 12-9 is 1-6 in the ACC.\u00a0 Georgia Tech is ranked 8th in the ACC consequently, while Miami sits at 11th.<\/p>\n

Georgia Tech and Miami are both winning teams, at least in terms of point differential.\u00a0 The .500 Yellowjackets have a +3.7 point differential, scoring 70.6 and giving up 66.9.\u00a0 Miami is also in the positive, but not much better than Georgia Tech, with a +5.0 point differential, scoring 73.4 and giving up 68.4\u00a0 The combinative total of the teams’ offensive output is 141, and the opening total for tonight’s game was about in line with that at 139.5.\u00a0 It has since shifted a point to 140.5, but it is a good estimate by college basketball oddsmakers and an over\/under doesn’t seem like a good idea with the line being set precariously close to what it actually will be.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Georgia Tech is 0-5 SU in their last 5 road games.<\/p>\n

Miami is 2-4 ATS in their last 6 games and 1-6 SU in their last 7 games.\u00a0 They are 10-3 SU in their last 13 home games and the total has gone UNDER in 4 of the last 6 Miami home games.\u00a0 Miami is 5-1 SU in their last 6 against the Yellowjackets.<\/p>\n

Georgia Tech is led by sophomore Brian Oliver and junior Iman Shumpert, who average 11.5 and 16.6 points per game, respectively.\u00a0 Shumpert leads the team in rebounding too with 5.9 rebounds per game. Brian Oliver, though undersized for a big man, his strength and leaping ability enable him to be an effective big inside, while clearly lacking the size to take his game to the next level.\u00a0 Shumpert is having the best year of his three years at Tech so far, upping his scoring average from previous years by over 3 points a game.\u00a0 His field goal percentage, though, is a paltry 37.5%, in line with his percentage from previous years.\u00a0 He will have to up his percentage for the Yellowjackets to have any chance at all this March.<\/p>\n

Sophomore Glen Rice Jr. doesn’t appear to have the shooting skills of his father, but should still develop into a nice player for the Yellowjackets.\u00a0 He is averaging the second most points per game on the team with 12.6 a game.\u00a0 Last year he did a better impresonation of his father, shooting 46.7% from behind the arc, but he has inexplicably struggled this year, albeit in a small sample size, going 26 of 77 behind the arc.\u00a0 If he can regain his touch Georgia Tech it would enable Georgia Tech to have a good shot at covering the spread.<\/p>\n

The Miami Hurricanes are led by the trio of Malcolm Grant, Durant Scott, and Reggie Johnson.\u00a0 The three of them combine for 41.8 points per game, 57% of Miami’s offensive output.\u00a0 They are led by 6’1″ junior point guard Malcolm Grant, who averages a team high 32.6 minutes per game and a team high 15.7 points per game.\u00a0 He also chimes in 3.8 assists while shooting 44.2% from behind the arc (57 of 129).\u00a0 He’s scored 20 or more in 7 of Miami’s 22 games, including a 26 point, 3 rebound, 3 assist game against West Virginia in a 3 point Hurricane win.\u00a0 His backcourt mate Durand Scott is Miami’s second leading scorer with 14.2 points per game and like Grant, he is an excellent three point shooter, as well.\u00a0 He averages 40.9% from three (only 44 shots though) and also averages 3.2 assists per game, as a bit of a combo guard being 6’3″ 200.\u00a0 He’s scored 20 or more 5 times and has the team high for points in a game this year with 27 against Ole Miss, another Hurricane win.\u00a0 If the backcourt of Grant and Scott can get cookin’ from downtown, it will be a long night for Georgia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Georgia Tech Yellowjackets at Miami (FL) Hurricanes Feb 3, 2011 at 7:00 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Miami -5.5 Current Line:\u00a0 Miami -5.5 Opening Total: 139.5 Current Total: 140.5 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 Mia -245 \/ Ga T +205 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Mia -250 \/ Ga T +200 Tonight’s game brings together an ironic juxtaposition of how you can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":4660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4069,1083],"class_list":["post-13067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-georgia-tech-yellowjackets","tag-miami-hurricanes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13067","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=13067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13069,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13067\/revisions\/13069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}