{"id":27588,"date":"2013-02-01T19:54:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T00:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27588"},"modified":"2013-02-01T19:54:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T00:54:07","slug":"ncaa-basketball-picks-duke-blue-devils-vs-florida-state-seminoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-picks-duke-blue-devils-vs-florida-state-seminoles-27588\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Picks: Duke Blue Devils vs. Florida State Seminoles"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 5 Duke Blue Devils at Florida State Seminoles
\nSaturday, 2\/2\/13, 2:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Duke -6.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Duke -6.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 143
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 143
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Duke Blue Devils have dropped their of their last four games versus the Florida State Seminoles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Duke has won back-to-back games since suffering its second loss of the season, as it comes off a 75-70 victory over the Wake Forest Demon Deacons as 13.5-point road favorites Wednesday night.\u00a0 The Blue Devils were led by forward Mason Plumlee\u2019s career-high 32 points, while he combined with Seth Curry for 24 of the team\u2019s 35 points in the final 20 minutes.\u00a0 Plumlee leads a group of five players on the roster averaging double figures in scoring.\u00a0 Duke is 9-4 ATS in its last 13 road games, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NCAA basketball picks Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Blue Devils lead the ACC in three-point field goal percentage, which has played a major part in their current scoring average of 78.0 points per game.\u00a0 Duke is 31-9 all-time against Florida State, including a 13-6 mark in Tallahassee, but the program has dropped three of the last four meetings.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that the last four games between these rivals have been decided by eight points or less.<\/p>\n

Florida State has alternated wins and losses over its last four games, as it comes off a 73-71 victory over the Maryland Terrapins as three-point home favorites, while going OVER the total for the first time in five opportunities.\u00a0 The Seminoles are 12-8 overall on the season, while entering this affair with a 4-3 mark in Atlantic Coast Conference play.\u00a0 Florida State is 0-5 ATS in its last five conference games, which is important to consider when looking over the college basketball odds page.<\/p>\n

The Seminoles have won 27 games versus ranked teams during the first 11 years of the Leonard Hamilton era, which includes six victories over the Blue Devils. \u00a0 Florida State has compiled a solid 16-3 record at home in ACC play in the last three seasons, as it enjoys a great advantage playing in front of its fans at the Donald L. Tucker Center.\u00a0 Guard Michael Snaer is the player to watch offensively, averaging 14.2 points per game.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the Blue Devils due to their 4-0 ATS mark following a spread loss, while the Seminoles are 0-5 ATS in their last five games versus winning teams.<\/p>\n

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No. 5 Duke Blue Devils at Florida State Seminoles Saturday, 2\/2\/13, 2:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Duke -6.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Duke -6.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 143 Current Total:\u00a0 143 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Duke has won back-to-back games since suffering its second loss of the season, as it comes off a 75-70 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":26006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[387,3233,4345,607,1112,5693,757],"class_list":["post-27588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-atlantic-coast-conference","tag-donald-l-tucker-center","tag-duke-blue-devils","tag-florida-state-seminoles","tag-mason-plumlee","tag-seth-curry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27588","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=27588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27589,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27588\/revisions\/27589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}