{"id":13544,"date":"2011-02-22T04:47:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T09:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13544"},"modified":"2011-02-22T04:47:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T09:47:36","slug":"acc-clash-virginia-tech-hokies-at-wake-forest-demon-deacons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/acc-clash-virginia-tech-hokies-at-wake-forest-demon-deacons-13544\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC Clash: Virginia Tech Hokies at Wake Forest Demon Deacons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virginia Tech AT Wake Forest
\nFeb 22, 2011 at 7 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Virginia Tech -13.5
\nCurrent Line: Virginia Tech -14
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 143.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 144
\nMoneyline:\u00a0 Va Tech -1400 \/ Wake +1000<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Malcolm Delaney and the Hokies are heavy favorites tonight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Maybe returning to Joel Coliseum will help the Demon Deacons turn things around.\u00a0 Wake Forest has lost their last six games and their last win was a home game over Virginia.\u00a0 Wake Forest is coming off an 18 point bashing inflicted by FSU last Saturday.<\/p>\n

When Virginia Tech and Wake last met, on the 15th of January, Virginia Tech disposed of Wake in decisive fashion, winning the game 94 to 65.\u00a0 So the opening line of 13.5 doesn’t seem as outlandish as it might in another season’s meeting.\u00a0 Wake Forest is just not up to snuff this year and all programs have down years.<\/p>\n

Wake Forest does in fact have a negative point differential of -8.7.\u00a0 They score well enough, at 68.6 points per game, but their defense is not\u00a0 good enough, as they give up 77.2 points per game.\u00a0 Virginia Tech, as you would expect given their 17-8 record, has a +9.5 differential, scoring a respectable 72.0 a game and giving up a stingy 62.5.\u00a0 The combinative total of the teams’ offensive output is 140.6, slightly under tonight’s total.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Virginia Tech is 2-4 SU in their last 6 road games and the total has gone UNDER in 5 of Virginia Tech’s last 6 road games.<\/p>\n

Wake Forest is 3-9 ATS in their last 12 games, and they are 0-5 SU in their last 5 games. The total has gone OVER in 5 of Wake Forest’s last 7 games and Wake is 2-4 ATS in their last 6 games at home.\u00a0 Wake Forest is 1-5 SU in their last 6 games at home.\u00a0 Wake Forest is 1-5 ATS in their last 6 against Virginia Tech.\u00a0 Wake Forest is 1-7 SU in their last 8 games against Virginia Tech and the total has gone OVER in 5 of Wake Forest’s last 5 games against Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n

Virginia Tech is led by the quarteet of Malcolm Delaney, Jeff Allen, Erick Green, and Dorenzo Hudson.\u00a0 They have a strong six man rotation in which all six players play over 28 minutes a game, and 5 of the 6 play over 30 minutes a night.\u00a0 Delaney, a 6’3″ senior point guard, averages 19.2 points per game, 4.3 assists, 3.2 rebounds, 1.6 steals, and shoots 41.8% from three.\u00a0\u00a0 He’s scored in double figures in every Hokies’ game except for two (Wake Forest & Purdue).\u00a0 He’s had seven games with 20 points or more and has a season high of 30, which he scored in a 12 point loss to UNLV.\u00a0 Jeff Allen is a strong presence inside despite being only 6’7″.\u00a0 He averages 13.7 points per game and leads the team in rebounding with 10.4 boards a game.\u00a0 He has recorded 7 straight double doubles and also averages over 1 stl + 1 blk, showing his defensive prowess. He’ll be checked by McKie and Ari Stewart, who both are going to have a difficult time boxing out and keeping him off the glass.<\/p>\n

Wake Forest has a very balanced attack with five players averaging double figures (Travis McKie, Ari Stewart, J.T. Terrell, Gary Clark, and C.J. Harris).\u00a0 McKie, a 6’7″ freshman promises to have a bright future, as he is the leading scorer at 12.6points per game.\u00a0 He is also grabbing a lot of boards and leads the Demon Deacons in rebounding with 7.5 rebounds a game.\u00a0 Their other young gun Ari Stewart a 6’7″ sophomore forward is second on the team in scoring, was slightly behind McKie with 13.2 points per contest,\u00a0 but his playing time and scoring average have both dipped recently and he is now only averaging 9.8 a game,but he is second on the team in rebounding,at 7.3 per game.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wake Forest as a team is shooting an outstanding 37.5% from behind the arc, with Gary Clark’s 58.2% leading the way (46 of 79).\u00a0 Virginia Tech will need to get out on their shooters, because if Wake gets cooking from down town then the Hokies are in for a long night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Virginia Tech AT Wake Forest Feb 22, 2011 at 7 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Virginia Tech -13.5 Current Line: Virginia Tech -14 Opening Total:\u00a0 143.5 Current Total:\u00a0 144 Moneyline:\u00a0 Va Tech -1400 \/ Wake +1000 Maybe returning to Joel Coliseum will help the Demon Deacons turn things around.\u00a0 Wake Forest has lost their last six […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":9803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4528,4529],"class_list":["post-13544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-virginia-tech-basketball","tag-wake-forest-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13544","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=13544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13546,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13544\/revisions\/13546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}