{"id":31606,"date":"2013-12-03T20:24:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T01:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31606"},"modified":"2013-12-03T20:24:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T01:24:32","slug":"north-carolina-tar-heels-vs-michigan-state-spartans-ncaa-basketball-odds-and-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/north-carolina-tar-heels-vs-michigan-state-spartans-ncaa-basketball-odds-and-predictions-31606\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina Tar Heels vs. Michigan State Spartans: NCAA Basketball Odds and Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Carolina Tar Heels vs. Michigan State Spartans
\nWednesday, 12\/4\/13, 9:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -9
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -9
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Michigan State Spartans have been known to cover the number as 6.5 to 9 points home favorites<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

North Carolina will play the nation\u2019s top-ranked team on the road Wednesday night, as it looks to bounce back from a 63-59 setback to the UAB Blazers as 7.5-point favorites Sunday, while going UNDER the betting total of 161.5.\u00a0 The Tar Heels are 6-0 SU against the Spartans under head coach Roy Williams, which is important to consider when looking over the college basketball odds page.\u00a0 The program is 7-7 SU in the ACC\/Big Ten Challenge, with all seven wins coming in the last 10 years with Williams on the bench.\u00a0 North Carolina is 6-1 ATS after scoring 60 or fewer points the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 4-3 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Tar Heels have 12 wins over No. 1 teams, which is more than any other school in NCAA history\u2014something that can\u2019t be ignored when making your NCAA basketball picks.\u00a0 North Carolina leading scorer Marcus Paige was held to eight points below his season average last time out, as he missed on all six shot attempts from beyond the arc.\u00a0 He scored 58 points in two wins the previous weekend against Richmond and Louisville.<\/p>\n

Michigan State is off to a perfect 7-0 start under longtime head coach Tom Izzo, with sophomore guard Gary Harris leading a quartet of players averaging in double figures, as he comes in scoring 17.7 points per game.\u00a0 The Spartans lead the nation in assists and assists-to-turnover ratio.\u00a0 Point guard Keith Appling is a major part of that production, while he\u2019s also knocked down 12 of 23 attempts from beyond the arc.\u00a0 Michigan State is 34-9 ATS in its last 43 opportunities as a home favorite of 6.5 to 9 points.<\/p>\n

The Spartans are running more than usual this season, which has led to a scoring average of 85.9 points per game, with 20.4 coming in transition.\u00a0 Michigan State is 3-11 SU all-time against North Carolina, but the two storied programs have split their four challenge games.\u00a0 The team is shooting 73.2 from the charity stripe, with the three players attempting the most free throws all hitting at or above that number.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Spartans due to the favorite being 7-0 ATS in the last seven meetings of the 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":"

North Carolina Tar Heels vs. Michigan State Spartans Wednesday, 12\/4\/13, 9:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -9 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -9 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker North Carolina will play the nation\u2019s top-ranked team on the road Wednesday night, as it looks to bounce back from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[387,737,5831,7839,500,32,754,778],"class_list":["post-31606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-big-ten","tag-keith-appling","tag-marcus-paige","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","tag-roy-williams","tag-tom-izzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31606","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=31606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31607,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31606\/revisions\/31607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}