{"id":27427,"date":"2013-01-21T23:45:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T04:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27427"},"modified":"2013-01-21T23:45:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T04:45:27","slug":"college-basketball-predictions-nc-state-wolfpack-vs-wake-forest-demon-deacons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-predictions-nc-state-wolfpack-vs-wake-forest-demon-deacons-27427\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Predictions: NC State Wolfpack vs. Wake Forest Demon Deacons"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 18 NC State Wolfpack at Wake Forest Demon Deacons
\nTuesday, 1\/22\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 NC State -7.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 NC State -7.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Wake Forest Demon Deacons have won both of their ACC home games this year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NC State earned a 66-62 victory over the Clemson Tigers as 8.5-point home favorites last time out, while going UNDER the total for a second consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Wolfpack will now have a quick turnaround to deal with in this affair, as they were led by reserve T.J. Warren\u2019s 21 points Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve got to get our legs back underneath us,\u201d stated Wolfpack head coach Mark Gottfried.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that the program has won the last five meetings in this series by an average of 21.4 points.\u00a0 NC State is 8-2-1 ATS in its last 11 ACC games, which is important to consider when looking over the college basketball odds page.<\/p>\n

The Wolfpack get 79 percent of their scoring from their current starting five, while 94.3 comes from their top six players.\u00a0 NC State is the only team in the conference with four players ranked among the league\u2019s top 25 scorers.\u00a0 In 14 of 18 contests this season, the squad has shot 50 percent or better from the floor, while also knocking down 53.3 percent of its tries in its 15 wins.\u00a0 A common factor in the team\u2019s three losses has been that each of them occurred away from PNC Arena.<\/p>\n

Wake Forest is set to return home to the friendly confines of the Lawrence Joel Coliseum, as it suffered back-to-back losses on the road to the Virginia Tech Hokies and Clemson Tigers, while going UNDER the total in each of those affairs.\u00a0 The Demon Deacons have won both of their ACC home games during the 2012-13 campaign, but they\u2019ll need a big game from Travis McKie in this spot.\u00a0 He has tallied four double-doubles this season, which includes a 20-point and 15-board performance last time out.\u00a0 Wake Forest is 5-0 ATS in its last five opportunities after a straight-up loss, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NCAA basketball picks.<\/p>\n

The Demon Deacons have actually been outscored by less than a point on average this season, while they shoot 43.5 percent from the floor and allow opponents to knock down 43.4 percent of their attempts.\u00a0 Wake Forest is the only school to have two players ranked in the top 10 in the ACC in rebounding, while having two players sit in the top 10 in scoring.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the Wolfpack have gone OVER the total in 10 of their last 14 conference games.<\/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. 18 NC State Wolfpack at Wake Forest Demon Deacons Tuesday, 1\/22\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 NC State -7.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 NC State -7.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker NC State earned a 66-62 victory over the Clemson Tigers as 8.5-point home favorites last time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":26030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[387,7333,7332,4550,6096,3028],"class_list":["post-27427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-lawrence-joel-coliseum","tag-mark-gottfried","tag-nc-state-wolfpack","tag-travis-mckie","tag-wake-forest-demon-deacons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27427","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=27427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27430,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27427\/revisions\/27430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}