by LUCAS COMBS
When: Saturday, March 2nd at 3PM PT
Where: Cameron Indoor Stadium, Raleigh, North Carolina
Line: -6.5 Duke
Total: 135.5
The Match-Up
Saturday, the Duke Blue Devils will be looking to devour that cold dish we like to call revenge, while the Miami Hurricanes will be looking to secure an outright ACC title in the rowdy confines of Cameron Indoor. Duke was defeated Thursday by the Virginia Cavaliers, 73-68. Seth Curry had 28 points in the loss. Miami got a bounce back win versus Virginia Tech Wednesday, 80-65. The win came after a disappointing loss to Wake Forest last Saturday. Miami’s Shane Larkin had 22 points and 6 assists in the win over the Hokies.
The Blue Devils will look to do some bouncing back of their own; not only from the Virginia loss suffered on Thursday, but a January 23rd drubbing in Miami at the hands of the Hurricanes, 63-90.
Betting Information
Against the spread, the Miami Hurricanes are 15-7-2 ATS (5-4-2 ATS on the road). The Hurricanes are 0-3-2 ATS in their last 5 games this season.
Duke, meanwhile, is 15-13 ATS overall (7-7 ATS at home). The Blue Devils are 2-4 ATS in their last 6 games and 1-6-2 ATS in the last 9 games versus the Hurricanes.
Concerning the total, Miami is 14-7-1 Under overall (7-4 Under on the road). The total, however, has gone Over in 4 of the last 5 games on the road for Miami and Over in 6 of the last 7 games on the road versus the Duke Blue Devils.
Duke is 15-12 Over overall (7-6 Under at home). The total has gone Over in 9 of the last 13 games and Over in 4 of the last 5 home games for the Blue Devils.
Blue Baby Whine
Is little Coach K a poor sport? Affirmative.
After suffering the loss to Virginia on Thursday, Duke Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski was ‘irate’ about the Cavalier fans storming the court,
“Look, do you know how close you are to. … Just put yourself in the position of one of our players or coaches. I’m not saying any fan did this, but the potential is there all the time for a fan to just go up to you and say, ‘Coach you’re a [expletive],’ or push you or hit you. And what do you do? What if you did something? That would be the story. We deserve that type of protection.”
You do deserve that type of protection Mike? This coming from the Coach of a school who has the most blatantly disrespectful basketball student section in the country. Remember when your students shouted “How’s your Grandma” at NC State’s Tyler Lewis Grandmother died? Where was your petulant vernacular then? Speak up Mike, I can’t hear you. Oh, it’s about student safety, not about the fact that you are a sore loser. How about this Coach K, since you are feeling all entitled – You name me 10 instances when an athlete got seriously hurt from fans rushing the court (Heck, name me 5) and then I’ll stop calling you a sore loser and a whiny, entitled baby, okay?
What was that Coach K?
