{"id":26073,"date":"2012-11-11T11:15:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T16:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=26073"},"modified":"2012-11-11T11:15:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T16:15:47","slug":"duquesne-dukes-vs-georgetown-hoyas-ncaa-basketball-preview-and-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/duquesne-dukes-vs-georgetown-hoyas-ncaa-basketball-preview-and-predictions-26073\/","title":{"rendered":"Duquesne Dukes vs. Georgetown Hoyas: NCAA Basketball Preview and Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Duquesne Dukes at Georgetown Hoyas
\nSunday, 11\/11\/12, 6:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Georgetown -15
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Georgetown -14.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 128.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 129
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Georgetown Hoyas didn’t get to play a full 60 minutes of basketball in their season opener against the Florida Gators<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Duquesne is in its first season under head coach Jim Ferry, who led LIU Brooklyn to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances.\u00a0 The Dukes return two starters from last year\u2019s 16-15 team, as they look to bounce back from a 69-66 loss to Albany on Friday.\u00a0 The last time the program has opened with back-to-back road games was during the 1990-91 campaign.\u00a0 Duquesne is 5-2 ATS in November the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 4-2 in that situation. \u00a0Sports bettors need to be careful in backing this squad as one of their college basketball predictions on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

The Dukes are led offensively by guard Sean Johnson, who led the team in scoring 10 times in 2012 and has 900 career points.\u00a0 Johnson went 42-of-114 (.368) from the three-point area last year in making the transition from being the team\u2019s sixth man to a starter.\u00a0 Duquesne finished last year ranked third nationally in turnover margin, with only VCU and Syracuse finishing with a larger margin.<\/p>\n

Georgetown was only able to complete a half in its season opener against Florida, as the game was halted after the first 20 minutes due to condensation on the floor aboard the USS Bataan at Naval Station Mayport.\u00a0 The Hoyas enter the year with two starters and nine letterwinners returning to a team that was picked to finish in fifth place in the Big East Conference.\u00a0 The roster features zero seniors and has a combined group of 10 freshmen and sophomores.\u00a0 Georgetown is 9-1 ATS in November the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Hoyas will need to get big production out of Otto Porter Jr. to have a successful season, as the sophomore forward averaged 9.7 points and led the team with 6.8 rebounds per game.\u00a0 Georgetown also has two experienced players in Nate Lubick and Markel Starks, who combined to score 10.6 points last year.\u00a0 These two programs will be meeting for the 14th time, with Sunday\u2019s host winning 10 of the previous 13 contests.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Hoyas due to their 4-1 ATS mark at home, while the Dukes are 2-8 ATS versus Big East opponents.<\/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":"

Duquesne Dukes at Georgetown Hoyas Sunday, 11\/11\/12, 6:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Georgetown -15 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Georgetown -14.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 128.5 Current Total:\u00a0 129 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Duquesne is in its first season under head coach Jim Ferry, who led LIU Brooklyn to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances.\u00a0 The Dukes return […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[2497,4015,1341,7143,5952],"class_list":["post-26073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-east-conference","tag-duquesne-dukes","tag-georgetown-hoyas","tag-otto-porter-jr","tag-sean-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26073","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=26073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26074,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26073\/revisions\/26074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}