{"id":31226,"date":"2013-11-11T20:28:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T01:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31226"},"modified":"2013-11-11T20:28:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T01:28:52","slug":"ncaa-basketball-predictions-duke-blue-devils-vs-kansas-jayhawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-predictions-duke-blue-devils-vs-kansas-jayhawks-31226\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Predictions: Duke Blue Devils vs. Kansas Jayhawks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Duke Blue Devils vs. Kansas Jayhawks
\nTuesday, 11\/12\/13, 9:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Duke -5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Duke -5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The Duke Blue Devils are loaded in 2013-14<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Duke faces Kansas at the United Center in Chicago in the State Farm Champions Classic, as it picked up a 111-77 season-opening win over Davidson as 16-point home favorites last week.\u00a0 The Blue Devils are 23-12 SU under Coach K in match-ups between top-five teams in the AP Poll, which is important to consider when looking over the NCAA basketball odds page Tuesday night.\u00a0 The team had four players score 20 or more points first time out, with freshman Jabari Parker contributing 22.\u00a0 Duke is 5-1 SUATS as a neutral court favorite of 3.5 to 6 points the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 3-2-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Blue Devils\u2019 starting lineup combined to score 81 points on 28-of-36 shooting against the Wildcats, while sophomore Rasheed Sulaimon came off the bench to score 20 points.\u00a0 Duke had 16 assists and just four turnovers in the season openers, with Quinn Cook anchoring that production.\u00a0 The program is 7-2 SU all-time against Kansas, including a 5-2 mark when playing on a neutral floor.<\/p>\n

Kansas picked up an 80-63 victory over Louisiana Monroe as 26-point home favorites last week, as it prepares to face its highest ranked opponent in a game since the 2012 National Championship game against Kentucky.\u00a0 The Jayhawks\u2019 bench finished with a 33-14 edge in their season opener, while preseason All-American guard Andrew Wiggins led the squad with 16 points.\u00a0 The team welcomes back nine letterwinners from a squad that went 31-6 during the 2012-13 campaign.\u00a0 Kansas is 0-2 SUATS as a neutral court underdog of 3.5 to 6 points the last two-plus seasons, with both games going UNDER the total.<\/p>\n

The Jayhawks highest returning scorer this year was Perry Ellis, who averaged 5.8 points and 3.9 rebounds per game last season.\u00a0 Kansas is a dominating 48-26 SU against ranked competition under head coach Bill Self, including a 38-16 mark since the 2007-08 campaign.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Blue Devils due to their 4-0 ATS mark in their last four games against Big 12 Conference 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":"

Duke Blue Devils vs. Kansas Jayhawks Tuesday, 11\/12\/13, 9:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Duke -5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Duke -5 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Duke faces Kansas at the United Center in Chicago in the State Farm Champions Classic, as it picked up a 111-77 season-opening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[7769,4026,7766,1389,607,7768,34,3674],"class_list":["post-31226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-andrew-wiggins","tag-bill-self","tag-champions-classic","tag-coach-k","tag-duke-blue-devils","tag-jabari-parker","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-united-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31226","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=31226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31228,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31226\/revisions\/31228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}