{"id":20954,"date":"2012-01-10T11:29:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T16:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=20954"},"modified":"2012-01-10T11:29:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T16:29:34","slug":"acc-basketball-preview-miami-hurricanes-vs-north-carolina-tar-heels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/acc-basketball-preview-miami-hurricanes-vs-north-carolina-tar-heels-20954\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC Basketball Preview: Miami Hurricanes vs. North Carolina Tar Heels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Hurricanes at No. 3 North Carolina Tar Heels
\nTuesday, 1\/10\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 North Carolina -15
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 North Carolina -16
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 153
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 154
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The North Carolina Tar Heels will look to push their ACC record to 2-0 Tuesday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Miami will battle it out with North Carolina inside the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill Tuesday night, as it looks to gain revenge by losing both games in the series by a combined five points last year.\u00a0 The Hurricanes are coming off a hard-fought 52-51 defeat to the Virginia Cavaliers as 7.5-point road underdogs.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s something that we can build upon,\u201d stated Hurricanes head coach Jim Larranaga.\u00a0 The program is 2-16 all-time against tonight\u2019s opponent, while going 29-48 versus ranked opponents overall.\u00a0 Miami is 1-3 ATS versus good offensive teams that score 77 or more points this season.<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes have been very happy with the play of senior guard Malcolm Grant, who has scored in double-digits in 8-of-12 games.\u00a0 In the past five games, Miami has averaged 51.7 percent shooting from the floor, scoring 80.6 points per game.\u00a0 The team has great depth on the roster at Larranaga\u2019s disposal, as nine players have earned at least one start this season.<\/p>\n

North Carolina will close out its nine-game homestand and look to improve its record to 2-0 in Atlantic Coast Conference play.\u00a0 The Tar Heels opened conference action with a resounding 83-60 win over the Boston College Eagles as 30-point home favorites, but head coach Roy Williams wasn\u2019t very impressed with his squad\u2019s effort.\u00a0 \u201cThe issue is concentration,\u201d stated Williams after the game.\u00a0 \u201cIn league play, you\u2019ve got to be able to play the whole game for 40 minutes.\u00a0 The school will be aiming for its Smith Center-record 28th win in a row.\u00a0 North Carolina is 4-4 ATS as a home favorite of 12.5 or more points.<\/p>\n

The Tar Heels have won eight consecutive games in this series and have tallied an 8-1 mark when playing host in Chapel Hill.\u00a0 Williams has registered an impressive 12-2 mark versus Miami in his career.\u00a0 Harrison Barnes has been the star of the show recently, scoring 20 or more points in three of the last four games, averaging 22.2 points per contest over that span.\u00a0 He has also managed to hit 61.8 percent of his shots in those four games.\u00a0 Tyler Zeller has been manning the boards in bringing down 10.7 rebounds per game over the past six contests.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Tar Heels due to their 6-1 ATS mark on Tuesdays, while the Hurricanes are 5-10 ATS in January the last two-plus campaigns.<\/p>\n

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Miami Hurricanes at No. 3 North Carolina Tar Heels Tuesday, 1\/10\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 North Carolina -15 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 North Carolina -16 Opening Total:\u00a0 153 Current Total:\u00a0 154 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Miami will battle it out with North Carolina inside the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill Tuesday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[387,6028,3896,5889,1083,32],"class_list":["post-20954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-dean-smith-center","tag-harrison-barnes","tag-malcolm-grant","tag-miami-hurricanes","tag-north-carolina-tar-heels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20954","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=20954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20956,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20954\/revisions\/20956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}