{"id":19394,"date":"2011-11-15T11:39:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T16:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=19394"},"modified":"2011-11-15T11:39:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T16:39:53","slug":"college-basketball-betting-duke-blue-devils-vs-michigan-state-spartans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-betting-duke-blue-devils-vs-michigan-state-spartans-19394\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Betting: Duke Blue Devils vs. Michigan State Spartans"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 6 Duke Blue Devils vs. Michigan State Spartans
\nTuesday, 11\/15\/11, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Duke -5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Duke -6
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 138.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 138.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker
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The Duke Blue Devils are six-point neutral-site favorites against the Michigan State Spartans Tuesday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Duke has already scored two home victories to start the season and head coach Mike Krzyzewski comes into this game tied with Bob Knight as the winningest coach in NCAA history.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019d rather go out and try to win this game for the right reasons, and the residual is you get 903,\u201d commented Krzyzewski this week.\u00a0 \u201cThe perk is beating Michigan State.\u201d\u00a0 The program leads the all-time series, 6-2, including a 3-2 edge when playing on a neutral court.\u00a0 In the last meeting between the two schools, Duke tallied a 84-79 victory as 10-point home favorites, but this affair will be played inside Madison Square Garden.\u00a0 Duke is 14-8 ATS on a neutral court the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Blue Devils have won 25 of their last 27 non-conference contests, while the program is 110-10 all-time in the month of November under Coach K.\u00a0 Duke has won three straight games against Big Ten opponents, posting a 47-15 mark in such games under his direction.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is led by a trio of players inside the paint, averaging 36.0 points and 24.0 rebounds per game.\u00a0 Miles Plumlee, Ryan Kelly and Mason Plumlee managed to finish last season averaging 18.6 points and 17.0 rebounds per game combined.<\/p>\n

Michigan State is the first team to open the season against North Carolina and Duke since 1976.\u00a0 The Spartans have never opened a season with two games against ranked opponents.\u00a0 Head coach Tom Izzo will have his squad on another airplane to arrive in New York City, after suffering a 67-55 season-opening loss to the North Carolina Tar Heels as 8.5-point underdogs aboard the USS Carl Vinson last Friday.\u00a0 Michigan State is 4-8 ATS in November the past two-plus campaigns, while the \u2018over\u2019 is 6-5 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Spartans certainly fell off in their most important category, ranking 48th in the nation with a plus-4 rebounding edge a year ago.\u00a0 Michigan State paced the country in that category the previous two seasons.\u00a0 During the Tom Izzo era, the program has out-rebounded 417 of 545 opponents.\u00a0 Draymond Green is the team\u2019s leader, as he recorded his 19th career double-double with 13 points and a career-high 18 rebounds versus the Tar Heels.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Blue Devils due to their 6-1 ATS mark as a favorite of 6.5 points or less, while the Spartans are 7-18-1 ATS overall.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the college basketball handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No. 6 Duke Blue Devils vs. Michigan State Spartans Tuesday, 11\/15\/11, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Duke -5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Duke -6 Opening Total:\u00a0 138.5 Current Total:\u00a0 138.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Duke has already scored two home victories to start the season and head coach Mike Krzyzewski comes into this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[607,3902,500,1661,778],"class_list":["post-19394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-duke-blue-devils","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-mike-krzyzewski","tag-tom-izzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19394","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\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19396,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19394\/revisions\/19396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}