{"id":33178,"date":"2014-02-26T18:17:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T23:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=33178"},"modified":"2014-02-26T18:17:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T23:17:43","slug":"college-basketball-predictions-north-carolina-tar-heels-vs-nc-state-wolfpack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-predictions-north-carolina-tar-heels-vs-nc-state-wolfpack-33178\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Predictions: North Carolina Tar Heels vs. NC State Wolfpack"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Carolina Tar Heels vs. NC State Wolfpack
\nWednesday, 2\/26\/14, 8:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 North Carolina -5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 North Carolina -4
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The North Carolina Tar Heels have dominated their series with the NC State Wolfpack under head coach Roy Williams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

North Carolina will try to win its 10th game in a row Wednesday night, as it comes off a 105-72 blowout victory over the Wake Forest Demon Deacons as 14-point home favorites last time out.\u00a0 The Tar Heels averaged 56.3 points in the first three ACC games this year, but have averaged 78.9 in their last 11, which is important to consider when making your college basketball predictions.\u00a0 The program has shot 50 percent or better from the floor in the second half in eight of its last 10 contests.\u00a0 North Carolina is 6-2 SU and 5-3 ATS as road favorites of 3.5 to 6 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Tar Heels have compiled a 56-31 SU record on the road in ACC play under longtime head coach Roy Williams, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college basketball odds page.\u00a0 North Carolina is 149-76 SU all-time in this series, including a dominating 21-2 mark under Williams.\u00a0 Sophomore point guard Marcus Paige has made 63 of the team\u2019s 110 three-point field goals during the 2013-14 campaign.<\/p>\n

NC State returns home after dropping two of three road games, but it did manage to come away with a 71-64 victory over the Virginia Tech Hokies as 2.5-point road favorites last Saturday.\u00a0 The Wolfpack have two players averaging in double figures, with sophomore forward T.J. Warren leading the way at 23.3 points a contest.\u00a0 He\u2019s the leading scorer in all of the Power 5 conferences\u2014having six games of finishing with 30-plus points.\u00a0 NC State is 7-6 ATS at home this season, with the UNDER going 8-5 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Wolfpack have one of the better floor generals in the conference in Tyler Lewis, who is on pace to set the school record for assist-to-turnover ratio.\u00a0 NC State has a +3.0 turnover margin when Lewis starts at point guard and -0.1 when he comes off the bench.\u00a0 Both of these teams rely on scoring inside the arc, with Warren leading the nation in made field goals per game.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Tar Heels due to the favorite being 12-2 ATS in the last 14 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":"

North Carolina Tar Heels vs. NC State Wolfpack Wednesday, 2\/26\/14, 8:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 North Carolina -5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 North Carolina -4 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker North Carolina will try to win its 10th game in a row Wednesday night, as it comes off a 105-72 […]<\/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":[387,7839,4550,32,754,7944,8152],"class_list":["post-33178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-marcus-paige","tag-nc-state-wolfpack","tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","tag-roy-williams","tag-t-j-warren","tag-tyler-lewis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33178","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=33178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33179,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33178\/revisions\/33179"}],"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=33178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}