{"id":20379,"date":"2011-12-19T09:35:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T14:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=20379"},"modified":"2011-12-19T09:35:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T14:35:52","slug":"college-basketball-odds-unc-greensboro-spartans-vs-duke-blue-devils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-odds-unc-greensboro-spartans-vs-duke-blue-devils-20379\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Odds: UNC Greensboro Spartans vs. Duke Blue Devils"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNC Greensboro Spartans at No. 5 Duke Blue Devils
\nMonday, 12\/19\/11, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Duke -32
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Duke -31.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 153
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 154.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Duke Blue Devils can name the score Monday night inside Cameron Indoor Stadium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

UNC Greensboro should definitely be motivated to play Monday night\u2019s contest inside Cameron Indoor Stadium, as current coach Wes Miller use to take on Duke as its main rival during his playing days at North Carolina.\u00a0 The Spartans have lost all nine meetings in this series, including a 108-62 defeat as 33-point road favorites a year ago.\u00a0 Total players will find that the last two games in the series have gone \u2018over\u2019 the total.\u00a0 UNC Greensboro is 10-9 ATS as a road underdog of 12.5 or more points the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Spartans have alternated covering the spread and missing for bettors in their last seven games versus lined competition, coming off a 71-62 defeat against the East Carolina Pirates as four-point home underdogs.\u00a0 Offensively, sophomore swingman Trevis Simpson will need to continue to produce, averaging 19.3 points over his last six games.\u00a0 He\u2019s managed to reach double figures in 10 of the team\u2019s 11 games this year.\u00a0 Miller is currently the youngest Division I head coach in the country.<\/p>\n

Duke is coming off finals week and will be playing its first game in eight days Monday night.\u00a0 The Blue Devils will be seeking their 91st consecutive home win over a non-conference opponent and will look to improve their performance at the charity stipe, missing 16 of 35 in their 86-80 win over the Washington Huskies last time out.\u00a0 \u201cWe make free throws and it\u2019s not that close at the end,\u201d commented Blue Devils head coach Mike Krzyzewski.\u00a0 The team has a +38.9 margin of victory in the nine meetings in this series.\u00a0 Duke is 3-1 ATS as a home favorite of 30.5 or more points the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Blue Devils can certainly name the score tonight and have won 47 straight games against SoCon opponents.\u00a0 Duke has won 13 straight games in December and 10 of those wins have come by double figures.\u00a0 Austin Rivers has been fantastic on the offensive end, averaging a team-high 17.4 points per game over the last six contests, hitting 46.7 percent of his shots from the field.\u00a0 He joins four other players in helping the program be one of eight that possesses five or more players averaging double figures.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Blue Devils due to their 7-1 ATS mark as a favorite of 13 or more points, while the Spartans are 7-17 ATS versus ACC foes.<\/p>\n

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UNC Greensboro Spartans at No. 5 Duke Blue Devils Monday, 12\/19\/11, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Duke -32 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Duke -31.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 153 Current Total:\u00a0 154.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker UNC Greensboro should definitely be motivated to play Monday night\u2019s contest inside Cameron Indoor Stadium, as current coach Wes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[5700,4014,607,1661,6174,6173],"class_list":["post-20379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-austin-rivers","tag-cameron-indoor-stadium","tag-duke-blue-devils","tag-mike-krzyzewski","tag-trevis-simpson","tag-unc-greensboro-spartans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20379","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=20379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20380,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20379\/revisions\/20380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}