{"id":19658,"date":"2011-11-25T11:54:27","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T16:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=19658"},"modified":"2011-11-25T11:54:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T16:54:27","slug":"college-basketball-picks-south-carolina-gamecocks-vs-north-carolina-tar-heels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-south-carolina-gamecocks-vs-north-carolina-tar-heels-19658\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: South Carolina Gamecocks vs. North Carolina Tar Heels"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Carolina Gamecocks vs. No. 1 North Carolina Tar Heels
\nFriday, 11\/25\/11, 10:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 North Carolina -20.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 North Carolina -21
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 144
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 144
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The North Carolina Tar Heels should have no trouble dispatching the South Carolina Gamecocks Friday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

South Carolina began play in the Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational in Columbia with a 64-63 loss to Tennessee State last Sunday as 11.5-point favorites, but rebounded with a 61-57 win over Mississippi Valley State on Tuesday.\u00a0 \u201cI think the opportunity to play North Carolina is good,\u201d commented Gamecocks coach Darrin Horn.\u00a0 The program will be facing the No. 1 team for the ninth time in its history, while posting a 281-403 all-time mark against teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference.\u00a0 South Carolina is 12-20 ATS as an underdog the past two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Gamecocks are led by forward Malik Cooke offensively, averaging 11.8 points and 5.5 rebounds per game, as he\u2019ll be highly-motivated for this contest due to being a Charlotte native and growing up a Tar Heels\u2019 fan.\u00a0 South Carolina is 21-57 all-time against North Carolina, including a 7-20 mark in neutral site contests.\u00a0 Horn has led the program to a 6-13 record against ranked opponents during his time at the helm.<\/p>\n

North Carolina comes in as the nation\u2019s top-ranked team with a perfect 4-0 record, handing Tennessee State a 102-69 loss last time out, as the team hit 41-of-66 shots.\u00a0 The Tar Heels are starting off the 2011-12 campaign with four of their first six games away from home, including three being played in the Pacific Time Zone.\u00a0 The program is 6-0 in its two appearances in this event, capturing the championship over the Brigham Young Cougars in 2007.\u00a0 North Carolina is 6-10 ATS when playing on a neutral court the past two-plus seasons, with the \u2018under\u2019 being 11-7 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Tar Heels will likely come out with more defensive intensity in tonight\u2019s game, allowing Tennessee State to shooting 44.7 percent in the first half last time out.\u00a0 \u201cI chewed their rear ends out because I didn\u2019t think we were very good guarding the ball,\u201d stated Tar Heels coach Roy Williams.\u00a0 Offensively, sophomore guard Kendall Marshall is making plays on the perimeter, averaging 8.95 assists in his last 20 games.\u00a0 Forward Harrison Barnes is also getting in on the act by scoring in double figures in 18 consecutive games.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Tar Heels due to their 12-3-1 ATS mark versus SEC opponents, while the Gamecocks are 1-6 ATS versus ACC foes.<\/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":"

South Carolina Gamecocks vs. No. 1 North Carolina Tar Heels Friday, 11\/25\/11, 10:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 North Carolina -20.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 North Carolina -21 Opening Total:\u00a0 144 Current Total:\u00a0 144 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker South Carolina began play in the Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational in Columbia with a 64-63 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[387,5894,3896,5658,5895,32,754,739,3126],"class_list":["post-19658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-continental-tire-las-vegas-invitational","tag-harrison-barnes","tag-kendall-marshall","tag-malik-cooke","tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","tag-roy-williams","tag-sec","tag-south-carolina-gamecocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19658","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=19658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19659,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19658\/revisions\/19659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}