{"id":31882,"date":"2013-12-19T11:24:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T16:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31882"},"modified":"2013-12-19T11:24:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T16:24:14","slug":"college-basketball-predictions-duke-blue-devils-vs-ucla-bruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-predictions-duke-blue-devils-vs-ucla-bruins-31882\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Predictions: Duke Blue Devils vs. UCLA Bruins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Duke Blue Devils vs. UCLA Bruins
\nThursday, 12\/19\/13, 7:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Duke -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Duke -4
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The UCLA Bruins are 6-9 SU all-time against the Duke Blue Devil,\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Duke has won two games in a row, including an 85-66 victory over the Gardner-Webb Runnin\u2019 Bulldogs as 26-point home favorites Monday, while going OVER the betting total for the first time in four contests.\u00a0 The Blue Devils have won 22 straight games in the month of December, which is important to consider when making your college basketball predictions Thursday night.\u00a0 The program is also playing its 222nd straight games as a top-10 team in the AP poll.\u00a0 Duke is 5-2 SUATS as neutral court favorites of 3.5 to 6 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Blue Devils are led on the offensive end by true freshman forward Jabari Parker, who has recorded an ACC-high eight 20-point scoring performances, while two other players on the roster average 14.7 points or more per game.\u00a0 Parker combines with point guard Rodney Hood to score 40.9 points a contest\u2014the fifth-highest combined average in NCAA basketball this season.\u00a0 Offensively, the team ranks 14th in the country in averaging 86.1 points per game, while shooting 51.7 percent from the field.<\/p>\n

UCLA has registered a 6-9 SU all-time record against Duke, as it prepares to play at Madison Square Garden in New York City.\u00a0 The Bruins have one of the more talented rosters in the country, with no player averaging as close to a triple-double as forward Kyle Anderson.\u00a0 He\u2019s one of the more dynamic front court players in the nation, while guard Jordan Adams is averaging a team-high 21.2 points per game.\u00a0 UCLA is 10-7 SU and 6-10-1 ATS on a neutral floor the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Bruins are third in the country in averaging 89.1 points per game, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college basketball odds page.\u00a0 UCLA has made a smooth transition from Ben Howland to first-year head coach Steve Alford, who was previously at the helm at New Mexico.\u00a0 The program was picked to finish second out of 12 teams in the annual Pac-12 Conference preseason media poll.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Bruins due to their 4-1 ATS mark in their last five 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":"

Duke Blue Devils vs. UCLA Bruins Thursday, 12\/19\/13, 7:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Duke -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Duke -4 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Duke has won two games in a row, including an 85-66 victory over the Gardner-Webb Runnin\u2019 Bulldogs as 26-point home favorites Monday, while going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[607,7768,7281,3902,5263,11],"class_list":["post-31882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-duke-blue-devils","tag-jabari-parker","tag-kyle-anderson","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-pac-12-conference","tag-ucla-bruins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31882","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=31882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31884,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31882\/revisions\/31884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}