{"id":27590,"date":"2013-02-01T20:17:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T01:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27590"},"modified":"2013-02-01T20:17:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T01:17:21","slug":"college-basketball-picks-miami-hurricanes-vs-nc-state-wolfpack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-miami-hurricanes-vs-nc-state-wolfpack-27590\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Miami Hurricanes vs. NC State Wolfpack"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 14 Miami Hurricanes at NC State Wolfpack
\nSaturday, 2\/2\/13, 4:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 NC State PK
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -1
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 134.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 134.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"The
The Miami Hurricanes are the only team with a perfect mark in ACC play<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Miami has won eight games in a row, including a 73-64 victory over the Virginia Tech Hokies as 9.5-point road favorites, while going OVER the posted total of 135.5.\u00a0 The Hurricanes were led by Shane Larkin\u2019s career-best five 3-pointers on the offensive end, while he\u2019s also managed to rack up 42 steals on the other end of the floor.\u00a0 The squad\u2019s non-conference schedule is second in the country, which is important to consider when making your college basketball picks against the spread.\u00a0 Miami is 8-0 ATS in its last eight Saturday affairs.<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes sit atop the Atlantic Coast Conference standings with a perfect 7-0 record, which is 2.5-games better than the Wolfpack.\u00a0 In back-to-back conference road games, Miami is currently 6-13 in the first game and 5-13 in the second game.\u00a0 Only three times has the program managed to produce a 2-0 record in that situation.\u00a0 Over the course of its winning streak, the squad has outshot its opponents 44.9 percent to 36.0 percent from the field.<\/p>\n

NC State has alternated wins and losses over its last six games, as it looks to bounce back from a disappointing 58-55 setback to the Virginia Cavaliers as 3.5-point road underdogs, while going UNDER the total for the first time in three contests.\u00a0 The Wolfpack will likely be playing this game without the services of starting point guard Lorenzo Brown, as he suffered a sprained left ankle last time out.\u00a0 He is averaging 13.2 points and has dished off 143 assists on the season.\u00a0 NC State is 10-3-1 ATS in its last 14 conference games, something to keep in mind when looking over the college basketball odds page.<\/p>\n

The Wolfpack get 79 percent of their scoring from their starting lineup, while they also happen to be just the ninth group in ACC history to have four 1,000-point scorers on the same team.\u00a0 NC State ranks fourth nationally in shooting 50.3 percent from the floor, which has led directly to scoring 78.6 points per game.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Hurricanes due to the road team being 4-0-1 ATS in the last five meetings in this series.<\/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. 14 Miami Hurricanes at NC State Wolfpack Saturday, 2\/2\/13, 4:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 NC State PK Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -1 Opening Total:\u00a0 134.5 Current Total:\u00a0 134.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Miami has won eight games in a row, including a 73-64 victory over the Virginia Tech Hokies as 9.5-point […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[387,3233,7150,1083,4550,7205],"class_list":["post-27590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-atlantic-coast-conference","tag-lorenzo-brown","tag-miami-hurricanes","tag-nc-state-wolfpack","tag-shane-larkin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27590","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=27590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27591,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27590\/revisions\/27591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}