{"id":21579,"date":"2012-02-08T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21579"},"modified":"2012-02-07T20:55:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T01:55:06","slug":"duke-vs-north-carolina-blue-devils-and-tar-heels-meet-inside-the-smith-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/duke-vs-north-carolina-blue-devils-and-tar-heels-meet-inside-the-smith-center-21579\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke vs. North Carolina: Blue Devils and Tar Heels Meet Inside the Smith Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 9 Duke Blue Devils vs. No. 5 North Carolina Tar Heels
\nWednesday, 2\/8\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 North Carolina -7
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 North Carolina -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 159.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 160.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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North Carolina Tar Heels forward Tyler Zeller has been fantastic in eight ACC games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Duke will look to bounce back after suffering a 78-74 overtime loss to the Miami Hurricanes as 12-point home favorites, as it travels to Chapel Hill to take on the North Carolina Tar Heels inside the Dean Smith Center.\u00a0 Blue Devils head coach Mike Krzyzewski is 36-36 all-time in this rivalry, including an 11-14 mark in tonight\u2019s venue.\u00a0 The program has won four of its last five games in the series.\u00a0 Duke is 11-6 ATS in February the last two-plus years, while the \u201cunder\u201d is 14-4 in that particular situation.<\/p>\n

The Blue Devils have not lost back-to-back games in quite some time, posting a 14-0 record following a loss since February 2009.\u00a0 Duke has managed to win those games by an average of 14.6 points per game.\u00a0 Seth Curry is certainly a player to watch on the floor in this contest, averaging 17.7 points in three games against North Carolina last season.\u00a0 Freshman guard Austin Rivers will also be a factor, ranking 12th among freshman in scoring with a team-high 14.5 points per game.<\/p>\n

North Carolina will open the second half of Atlantic Coast Conference play Wednesday night and will look to move its win streak to six games.\u00a0 The Tar Heels have tallied an impressive 23-4 mark in their last 27 conference games.\u00a0 Senior forward Tyler Zeller has really led the team since the start of ACC play, averaging 17.8 points and 11.0 rebounds in eight games.\u00a0 Tar Heels head coach Roy Williams has faced a Duke team coming off a loss five times, posting three wins in those affairs.\u00a0 North Carolina is 4-4 ATS as a home favorite of 6.5 to 9 points the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Tar Heels are 60-32 all-time against the Blue Devils when playing in Chapel Hill, coming away with an 81-67 victory as 1.5-point favorites a year ago.\u00a0 When the first game of this rivalry is played in Chapel Hill, North Carolina is 0-4 during the Williams\u2019 era.\u00a0 Some bettors will want to take a look at the first half in this contest, as the average halftime lead in the past four games in this series has been 16.8 points.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Blue Devils due to their 8-3 ATS mark following a straight-up loss, while the home team is 2-7 ATS in the last nine meetings.<\/p>\n

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No. 9 Duke Blue Devils vs. No. 5 North Carolina Tar Heels Wednesday, 2\/8\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 North Carolina -7 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 North Carolina -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 159.5 Current Total:\u00a0 160.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Duke will look to bounce back after suffering a 78-74 overtime loss to the […]<\/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":[387,5700,6028,607,32,545],"class_list":["post-21579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-austin-rivers","tag-dean-smith-center","tag-duke-blue-devils","tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","tag-tyler-zeller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21579","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=21579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21581,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21579\/revisions\/21581"}],"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=21579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}