Last Updated on February 11, 2009 12:33 pm by Anthony Rome
North Carolina hits the road Wednesday night to take on Duke. Let’s take a look at the odds, trends, injuries and hand out a College Basketball Free Pick for this matchup.
Tip off: 9:00PM ET
Odds: Oddsmakers from online sports book Sports Interaction have made North Carolina 1.5-point favorite.
Over/Under Total: 157.5
Top Public Betting Trends:
All games in this series since 1997
N CAROLINA is 16-11 against the spread versus DUKE since 1997
DUKE is 18-9 straight up against N CAROLINA since 1997
13 of 23 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL since 1997
Games over the last 3 seasons
N CAROLINA is 3-1 against the spread versus DUKE over the last 3 seasons
N CAROLINA is 3-1 straight up against DUKE over the last 3 seasons
3 of 4 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons
All games played at DUKE since 1997
N CAROLINA is 9-2 against the spread versus DUKE since 1997
DUKE is 7-4 straight up against N CAROLINA since 1997
5 of 9 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL since 1997
Games played at DUKE over the last 3 seasons.
N CAROLINA is 2-0 against the spread versus DUKE over the last 3 seasons
N CAROLINA is 2-0 straight up against DUKE over the last 3 seasons
1 of 2 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons
Key Injuries:
N CAROLINA
[F] 02/03/2009 – Will Graves expected to miss the rest of the season ( Suspension )
[G] 01/12/2009 – Marcus Ginyard expected to miss the rest of the season. ( Stress Fracture )
[F/C] 11/19/2008 – Tyler Zeller is out indefinitely ( Wrist )
DUKE
[G] 01/27/2009 – Jordan Davidson will redshirt this season. ( None )
Free Pick: Our free pick for this game is Penn State +4.
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Posted: 2/11/09 12:36PM ET