{"id":20028,"date":"2011-12-05T19:52:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T00:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=20028"},"modified":"2011-12-05T19:52:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T00:52:26","slug":"college-basketball-odds-evansville-aces-vs-north-carolina-tar-heels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-odds-evansville-aces-vs-north-carolina-tar-heels-20028\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Odds: Evansville Aces vs. North Carolina Tar Heels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evansville Aces at No. 6 North Carolina Tar Heels
\nTuesday, 12\/6\/11, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 UNC -25
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 UNC -25
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 151.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 153
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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North Carolina forward Tyler Zeller led all scorers with 18 points in last year's meeting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Evansville will look for its first road win of the season as it travels to North Carolina to play inside the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill, NC.\u00a0 The Aces have alternated wins and losses in their six games this season, coming off a 70-68 overtime loss to the TCU Horned Frogs as 3.5-point home favorites.\u00a0 Junior guard Colt Ryan finished with 31 points, falling just one short of his career high.\u00a0 Taking care of the basketball is an important part to the team\u2019s success, owning the top turnover margin in the Missouri Valley Conference at 5.33.\u00a0 Evansville is 5-4 ATS as a road underdog of 12.5 or more points the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Aces will need to sure up the boards to remain competitive against such a high-profile opponent, getting out-rebounded by a 6.8 margin this season.\u00a0 Evansville met North Carolina a year ago, dropping a 76-49 contest as nine-point home underdogs, while going \u2018under\u2019 the total of 142.5.\u00a0 The team turned the ball over 23 times and caused just 12 miscues on the other end.<\/p>\n

North Carolina will open a five-week homestand and will look to bounce back from a 73-72 loss to the No. 1 Kentucky Wildcats as 6.5-point road underdogs on Saturday.\u00a0 \u201cGames like this get you ready for March,\u201d commented Tar Heels player John Henson.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s all that matters right now.\u201d\u00a0 The Tar Heels lead the all-time series with the Aces, 2-0, as the team was led by forward Tyler Zeller in scoring a game-high 18 points last year.\u00a0 Defensively, the team held Evansville to 31.7 percent shooting in the game.\u00a0 North Carolina is 14-18 ATS at home over the past two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Tar Heels fell just short against the Wildcats, but still managed to hit 11 of 18 three-point attempts in the game, tying a season high.\u00a0 North Carolina also finished with a 21-14 edge in bench points.\u00a0 Not many will anticipate a competitive game on the court Tuesday night, especially with the program coming in with a 19-game win streak inside the Smith Center.\u00a0 Padding the record is in the cards, taking on six of seven opponents that happen to play in non-BCS conferences.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Tar Heels due to their 3-1-1 ATS mark at home versus losing road teams, while the Aces are 1-3 ATS in non-conference action this year.<\/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":"

Evansville Aces at No. 6 North Carolina Tar Heels Tuesday, 12\/6\/11, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 UNC -25 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 UNC -25 Opening Total:\u00a0 151.5 Current Total:\u00a0 153 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Evansville will look for its first road win of the season as it travels to North Carolina to play […]<\/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":[6029,6028,6027,32,545],"class_list":["post-20028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-colt-ryan","tag-dean-smith-center","tag-evansville-aces","tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","tag-tyler-zeller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20028","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=20028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20029,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20028\/revisions\/20029"}],"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=20028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}