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Prop bets for Duke men’s basketball vs. North Carolina
Duke males’s basketball takes on rival North Carolina in its regular-season finale Saturday night in Chapel Hill. Because the Blue Devils try to finish the season sweep, the Blue Zone has you lined with some can’t-miss prop bets:
Duke (+3.5) vs. North Carolina
Act two of the most important rivalry in faculty basketball ideas off Saturday night as Duke travels down Tobacco Highway to the Dean Dome. Since their final entanglement, by which a packed Cameron Indoor Stadium and 20 factors from junior captain Jeremy Roach powered the Blue Devils to victory, each groups have discovered severe momentum.
Earlier than discovering its profitable methods once more, Duke rotated and misplaced two video games, first falling sufferer to a blowout by the hands of Miami. The 22-point loss was a typical hangover sport, simply two days after the huge win in opposition to the Tar Heels. The Blue Devils then practically upset then-No. 8 Virginia on the street earlier than an officiating error could have influenced what would have been an enormous Quad I win. Since that loss to the Cavaliers on Feb. 11, nonetheless, Duke is undefeated in ACC play, choosing up wins in opposition to Notre Dame, Syracuse, Louisville, Virginia Tech and Triangle rival N.C. State, who blew out the Blue Devils in Raleigh earlier this season.
North Carolina has additionally gained its final three contests, together with an enormous 71-63 upset win in opposition to then-No. 6 Virginia. Graduate ahead Pete Nance went off within the Dean Dome, scoring 22 factors on 7-of-10 taking pictures from the sector and 4-of-4 from past the arc. Coupled with 16 factors from RJ Davis, the Tar Heels by no means trailed. In its most up-to-date matchup Monday, North Carolina bested Florida State by 11 factors, comfortably protecting the unfold because of 18 factors on 6-of-8 taking pictures from Leaky Black.
Similar to final time, this sport may go both approach, which makes the rivalry such implausible tv. Though Duke is not going to have Cameron Indoor to assist it, it can have freshman ahead Dariq Whitehead again within the lineup, who was out with a decrease leg sprain the final time these two groups confronted off. An enormous defensive sport down low from freshman heart Dereck Full of life II is sufficient to put the Blue Devils over the sting and enter the ACC event with one other high quality win.
Decide: Duke +3.5
Over/Below 142.5 whole factors
For this season’s first spherical of the rivalry, it appeared the sport was destined to hit the over. Each groups possessed sufficient offensive firepower to blow up for copious buckets at any time. Nonetheless, the strain of the rivalry sport appeared to beat these skills, as each packages shot beneath 40% from the sector and had a mixed 19 turnovers. Since then, Duke has solely grown harder defensively, retaining opponents beneath 70 factors in its final six video games. The Tar Heels even have their very own defensive starpower, as Armando Bacot and Nance each common not less than a block per sport. Anticipate Saturday to be a slower defensive affair, similar to their first matchup of the season.
Decide: Below 142.5 factors
Dereck Full of life II over/beneath 2.5 blocks
Full of life placed on a defensive clinic within the first Tobacco Highway rivalry sport of his profession. The Westtown College product was a monster within the paint, rejecting eight photographs. As North Carolina was capable of beat Duke on the perimeter, a sliding Full of life loomed massive and swatted away layup makes an attempt. His simplest denial, a vicious stuffing of Caleb Like to preserve the Blue Satan lead at two, got here with simply greater than 4 minutes remaining. To ensure that Duke to win on the street, it can want one other robust defensive efficiency from Full of life, who’s now averaging 2.3 blocks per sport. Search for the Philadelphia native to proceed terrorizing the Tar Heels across the basket.
Decide: Over 2.5 blocks
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