{"id":32645,"date":"2014-01-20T13:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=32645"},"modified":"2014-01-20T12:36:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T17:36:31","slug":"college-basketball-picks-north-carolina-tar-heels-vs-virginia-cavaliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-north-carolina-tar-heels-vs-virginia-cavaliers-32645\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: North Carolina Tar Heels vs. Virginia Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Carolina Tar Heels vs. Virginia Cavaliers
\nMonday, 1\/20\/14, 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Virginia -7.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Virginia -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 128
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 129
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The home team is 5-0 ATS in the last five meetings between North Carolina and Virginia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

North Carolina snapped a three-game losing streak last Saturday, as it picked up a 82-71 victory over the Boston College Eagles as 11.5-point home favorites, while going OVER the betting total for the first time in six contests.\u00a0 The Tar Heels have won 10 of their last 12 games versus the Cavaliers, which is important to consider when making your college basketball betting picks.\u00a0 The program is 5-3 SU in Charlottesville under head coach Roy Williams.\u00a0 North Carolina is 0-3 SU and 1-2 ATS as road underdogs of 6.5 to 9 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Tar Heels are shooting just 39.8 percent overall and 21.7 from three-point range in four ACC games, which is hard to ignore when looking over the college basketball odds page.\u00a0 North Carolina is knocking down just 62 percent of its free throws this season\u2014on pace to be the worst figure in program history.\u00a0 Sophomore point guard Marcus Paige will need to play a huge game to pull off an upset in this spot, as he\u2019s drained 64.4 percent of his three-point shots.<\/p>\n

Virginia is set to make its second straight appearance on ESPN\u2019s Big Monday, as it looks to improve upon its 4-1 start in conference play.\u00a0 The Cavaliers rank fourth nationally in allowing just 56.6 points per game\u2014limiting foes to just 3.7 in fast-break opportunities.\u00a0 Defensively, the team has held 16 of 18 opponents below 50 percent shooting from the field, while it also out-rebounded 14 of 18 foes.\u00a0 Virginia is 10-2 SU and 9-1 ATS when playing with one or less days rest the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers are outscoring their opponents by a 451-308 margin in terms of bench points, with a reserve leading the team in scoring in six games during the 2013-14 campaign.\u00a0 Virginia is led on the offensive end by Joe Harris, but he\u2019s averaging just 11.3 points a contest, which would be the lowest program scoring leader in 61 seasons of ACC action.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Cavaliers due to the home team being 5-0 ATS in the last five meetings.<\/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. Virginia Cavaliers Monday, 1\/20\/14, 7:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Virginia -7.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Virginia -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 128 Current Total:\u00a0 129 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker North Carolina snapped a three-game losing streak last Saturday, as it picked up a 82-71 victory over the Boston College Eagles as 11.5-point […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[387,7206,7839,32,754,2977],"class_list":["post-32645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-joe-harris","tag-marcus-paige","tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","tag-roy-williams","tag-virginia-cavaliers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32645","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=32645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32647,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32645\/revisions\/32647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}