{"id":21817,"date":"2012-02-25T04:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21817"},"modified":"2012-02-24T20:43:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T01:43:41","slug":"ncaa-basketball-odds-north-carolina-tar-heels-vs-virginia-cavaliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-odds-north-carolina-tar-heels-vs-virginia-cavaliers-21817\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Odds: North Carolina Tar Heels vs. Virginia Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 7 North Carolina Tar Heels at Virginia Cavaliers
\nSaturday, 2\/24\/12, 4:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 North Carolina -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 North Carolina -3.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 128
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 128
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The North Carolina Tar Heels are the only ACC team to be undefeated inside John Paul Jones Arena<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

North Carolina will try to keep pace with Duke atop the ACC standings and will also be looking to win its sixth consecutive road game in conference play.\u00a0 The Tar Heels captured a decisive 70-52 win over the Virginia Cavaliers in the first meeting this year as nine-point home favorites, while going \u201cunder\u201d the total for the seventh consecutive time in the series.\u00a0 The program is a dominating 46-24 on the road in conference play in nine seasons under current head coach Roy Williams.\u00a0 North Carolina is 2-5 ATS on Saturdays.<\/p>\n

The Tar Heels have won eight of their last nine games against the Cavaliers, while also posting a 2-0 record inside John Paul Jones Arena over that span.\u00a0 North Carolina has won three games in a row in Charlottesville, including a 62-56 win as 6.5-point road favorites last year.\u00a0 Tyler Zeller is certainly a player to watch offensively in this particular contest, as he scored 25 points and grabbed nine rebounds in the first meeting.\u00a0 The program is the only one in the ACC that has a perfect record inside Saturday\u2019s venue, winning all three previous affairs.<\/p>\n

Virginia has put together a two-game win streak since dropping back-to-back games, including a 61-59 win over the Virginia Tech Hokies as two-point road favorites.\u00a0 The Cavaliers have managed to go \u201cunder\u201d the total in five of their last six games.\u00a0 Senior forward Mike Scott is averaging 17.3 points and 8.2 rebounds per game, coming into this weekend as the conference\u2019s active leader in those two categories for his career.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m so proud of him,\u201d commented Cavaliers head coach Tony Bennett about Scott.\u00a0 \u201cMike is having a terrific year.\u201d\u00a0 Virginia is 11-4 ATS when playing on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers have amassed a perfect 17-0 record when scoring at least 60 points this season, while going 24-2 when hitting at least the 70-point plateau during Bennett\u2019s time on the sidelines.\u00a0 Virginia is second in the nation in scoring defense and seventh in allowing opponents to shoot just 28.6 percent from beyond the arc.\u00a0 Scott ranks in the top 10 in the ACC in scoring, rebounding and field-goal percentage.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Cavaliers due to the underdog being 5-2-1 ATS in the last eight meetings, while the Tar Heels are 2-5-1 ATS in that same period.<\/p>\n

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No. 7 North Carolina Tar Heels at Virginia Cavaliers Saturday, 2\/24\/12, 4:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 North Carolina -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 North Carolina -3.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 128 Current Total:\u00a0 128 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker North Carolina will try to keep pace with Duke atop the ACC standings and will also be […]<\/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":[387,6470,6039,32,545,2977],"class_list":["post-21817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-john-paul-jones-arena","tag-mike-scott","tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","tag-tyler-zeller","tag-virginia-cavaliers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21817","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=21817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21819,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21817\/revisions\/21819"}],"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=21817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}