{"id":14206,"date":"2011-03-16T17:21:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T22:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=14206"},"modified":"2011-03-16T17:21:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T22:21:15","slug":"southeast-region-1-pittsburgh-vs-16-n-c-asheville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/southeast-region-1-pittsburgh-vs-16-n-c-asheville-14206\/","title":{"rendered":"Southeast Region: (1) Pittsburgh vs (16) N.C. Asheville"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Carolina Asheville AT Pittsburgh<\/strong>
\nMar 17, 2011 at 3:10 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Pitt -17.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Pitt -18<\/strong>
\nOpening Total: 134<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 134<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 Pitt -3000 \/ NC A +2250<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Pitt -7500 \/ NC A +1800<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ashton Gibbs and the Panthers are the top seed in the Southeastern Region<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This matchup features a conference winner in NC Asheville and the #4 Team in the AP Top 25 in Pittsburgh.\u00a0 NC Asheville closed on the season on fire, winning their final 7 games, though most of it was the conference tournament and conference opponents, all of whom are very weak.<\/p>\n

NC Asheville will have a rude awakening when they play a ranked team for the first time since their 96-49 drubbing against Ohio State on December 21st.\u00a0 Against ranked opponents, NC Asheville lost all 3 by an average of 24.3 points.\u00a0 Due largely in part to their weak schedule, the 20-13 Bulldogs have a +5.9 win differential.\u00a0 They average 74.4 points a game while giving up 68.5.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh ended up losing last game to then #19 Connecticut.\u00a0 They took care of business against #19 Villanova, winning 60-50.\u00a0 They have held 7 of their last 8 opponents under 60 points and their average output of their opponents was +13.1, holding opponents to just over 60 points a game (61) and scoring 74.1 themselves.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh is 17-4 SU in their last 21 games and the total has gone UNDER in 7 of Pittsburgh’s last 8 games.<\/p>\n

NC Ashevile’s Overall Scoring, 74.9<\/strong>
\nPittsburgh Overall Defense, 60.7<\/strong><\/p>\n

NC Asheville’s Home Scoring 72.5 <\/strong>
\nPittsburgh’s Home Defense 60.7<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pittsburgh’s Overall Scoring 74.0<\/strong>
\nUNC Asheville’s Overall Defense 68.45<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Home Scoring 76.14<\/strong>
\nAsheville’s Road Defense, 71.8<\/strong><\/p>\n

PIttsburgh Home Rebounds 40.0<\/strong>
\nAsheville’s Road Rebounds 38.29<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pittsburgh is led by 6’2″ junior Ashton Gibbs.\u00a0 Gibbs averages 16.7 points per game, 2.8 assists per game, and shoots a blistering 48% from three (95 of 198).\u00a0 Gibbs should be a big reason Pittsburgh blows out NC Asheville.\u00a0 Gibbs has hit 4 threes or more in 8 Pittsburgh games and Pittsburgh is 8-0 in those games.\u00a0 In the 9 games in which Gibbs scored 20 or more, Pittsburgh won all 9.\u00a0 The only other player to play over 30 minutes a night is 6’4″ senior guard Brad Wanamaker.\u00a0 Wanamaker leads the team in rebounding with 5.3 a game and he is second in scoring with 12 points per game.\u00a0 He also leads the team in assists with 5.1 a game.\u00a0 He recorded two double doubles this year against Rider and Louisville, but Pittsburgh lost the matchup to Louisville by 3 points.<\/p>\n

NC Asheville is led by the duo of Matt Dickey and J.P. Primm.\u00a0 The duo combine to score 30.1 points per game, which accounts for approximately 40% of NC Asheville’s total scoring.\u00a0 Dickey, a 6’1″ junior point guard, leads the team in scoring with 15.5 points per game, and he also manages 3.3 assists per game and 3.7 boards per game.\u00a0 He is shooting 38% from three (63 of 166) and 43.3% from the field.\u00a0 He failed to score in double figures in only 5 games, and of those 5 games, NC Asheville lost 4 of them.\u00a0 His backcourt mate J.R. Primm is also 6’1″ and also a junior.\u00a0 He puts up 14.6 points per game and a team leading 4.6 assists per game while shooting 35% from three (55 of 157).\u00a0 Gibbs will slow down one of these guards and Wanamaker will match up against the other.<\/p>\n

This matchup is going to be primarly decided by the play of the teams’ respective back courts, though the #1 seed – as always – is a huge favorite against any #16 seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

North Carolina Asheville AT Pittsburgh Mar 17, 2011 at 3:10 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Pitt -17.5 Current Line:\u00a0 Pitt -18 Opening Total: 134 Current Total:\u00a0 134 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 Pitt -3000 \/ NC A +2250 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Pitt -7500 \/ NC A +1800 This matchup features a conference winner in NC Asheville and the #4 Team […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":9797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4686,4685],"class_list":["post-14206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-north-carolina-asheville","tag-pittsbugh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206","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=14206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14207,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206\/revisions\/14207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}