{"id":21029,"date":"2012-01-13T23:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21029"},"modified":"2012-01-13T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T21:05:00","slug":"college-basketball-picks-north-carolina-tar-heels-vs-florida-state-seminoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-north-carolina-tar-heels-vs-florida-state-seminoles-21029\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: North Carolina Tar Heels vs. Florida State Seminoles"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 3 North Carolina Tar Heels at Florida State Seminoles
\nSaturday, 1\/14\/12, 2:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 North Carolina -8
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 North Carolina -8
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 142
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 142
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Florida State Seminoles have one of the best defenses in the country<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

North Carolina will play its first Atlantic Coast Conference road game Saturday in Tallahassee, which will also serve as its first game away from Chapel Hill in 42 days.\u00a0 The Tar Heels just finished off a perfect 9-0 homestand, which includes a 73-56 win over the Miami Hurricanes as 16.5-point favorites.\u00a0 \u201cOur bench has been really great for us this year with giving us big jolts when they come in there,\u201d stated Tar Heels head coach Roy Williams.\u00a0 The program has won 18 of its last 21 conference games, including two wins to start this year.\u00a0 North Carolina is 6-2 ATS on the road.<\/p>\n

The Tar Heels own a commanding advantage in this series, posting a 42-10 record, including a 32-9 mark since the two teams became ACC rivals.\u00a0 North Carolina currently\u00a0 has a five-game winning streak in Tallahassee, with the last four being absolute thrillers.\u00a0 \u00a0 Harrison Barnes hit a three-pointer with three second remaining to give the team a 72-70 win inside the Tucker Center last year as 2.5-point road favorites.\u00a0 North Carolina dominated the glass by finishing with a 39-28 edge in rebounding.<\/p>\n

Florida State will host ESPN College GameDay on Saturday and comes off a solid 63-59 win over the Virginia Tech Hokies as four-point road underdogs.\u00a0 The Seminoles defense played incredibly well in the victory, holding the Hokies to 30.5 percent shooting from the field and 16.7 percent from three-point range.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve been up and down,\u201d commented Seminoles head coach Leonard Hamilton.\u00a0 Senior Bernard James was the star of the show, scoring a career-high tying 18 points.\u00a0 Florida State is 4-1-1 ATS in its last six conference games.<\/p>\n

The Seminoles have the third-best winning percentage in the ACC over the last four years, averaging 23.3 wins per year since the 2008-09 campaign.\u00a0 Florida State enters Saturday\u2019s game with 21 wins over nationally ranked teams in the first 10 years of the Hamilton era.\u00a0 There\u2019s no doubt that defense is the name of the game around this program, ranking third nationally in field goal percentage defense.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Seminoles due to their 6-1 ATS mark in the last seven meetings, while the favorite is 2-5 ATS in that same span of games in this series.<\/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. 3 North Carolina Tar Heels at Florida State Seminoles Saturday, 1\/14\/12, 2:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 North Carolina -8 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 North Carolina -8 Opening Total:\u00a0 142 Current Total:\u00a0 142 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker North Carolina will play its first Atlantic Coast Conference road game Saturday in Tallahassee, which will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[387,5848,3565,1112,3896,32,754],"class_list":["post-21029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-bernard-james","tag-espn-college-gameday","tag-florida-state-seminoles","tag-harrison-barnes","tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","tag-roy-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21029","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=21029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21030,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21029\/revisions\/21030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}