{"id":10388,"date":"2011-02-09T17:47:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T17:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/?p=10388"},"modified":"2011-02-09T17:47:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T17:47:40","slug":"duke-vs-north-carolina-odds-and-sports-handicapper-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/duke-vs-north-carolina-odds-and-sports-handicapper-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke vs. North Carolina Odds and Sports Handicapper Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper<\/a> Matt Rivers has a point spread prediction Wednesday on the big North Carolina-Duke rivalry. It is on North Carolina (+10) at Duke.<\/p>\n

Duke at Cameron Indoor certainly can whack any opponent and that includes rival North Carolina. But I will give Roy Williams\u2019 squad some credit for suddenly looking pretty darn good. The first half of the season was fairly underachieving and it looked as if we were having somewhat of a repeat of last season\u2019s debacle. But recently Harrison Barnes and the fellas have stepped things up and after winning five straight and 10 of their last 11 why not grab around double digits?<\/p>\n

Duke\u00a0was last season\u2019s National Champion and with Kyrie Irving coming in probably\u00a0deserved to be the top ranked team in the nation. But Coach K\u2019s boys\u00a0have not been great all of the time and there have been some chinks in the armor.\u00a0They are still better than their Tobacco Road enemies\u00a0even with\u00a0Jon Scheyer leaving and the injury to Kyrie\u00a0Irving\u00a0but the gap has certainly narrowed a ton since last season and with the way the Heels have revved things up of late I\u2019ll take my chances on them tonight plus this handsome number.\u00a0UNC is\u00a017-5 overall and boasts the 7-1 ACC mark. The players should be a lot more confident\u00a0and prepared for the Dookies and the Cameron Crazies this season\u00a0and in revenge after last season\u2019s whackings are going to compete in this thing.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not thinking the North Carolina program is all the way back and ready to win this game by any means but the Blue Devils aren\u2019t invincible at all right now and with a whole lot of confidence I\u2019ll grab the healthy sum of points with a pretty good team\u00a0and take my chances.<\/p>\n

Top expert pick<\/a> on this game: North Carolina.<\/p>\n

For more information: <\/strong>When you\u2019re a four-point dog and are up by 32 at the half and win outright by 34 you feel pretty good!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s now a 10-3 overall run after the 76ers did what they did. This comes on the heels of the 13-4 season ending football run and I\u2019m now ready to Raise that Bar and smack around the Crookie one more time. A pair of humpday winners including a major 400,000* release from Boulder between a couple of struggling clubs in Texas A&M and Colorado along with a bonus 300,000* with Louisville-Notre Dame. Tuck the kids and wife in, grab a few cold ones and put on the U tonight and watch the cash roll in. Get Matt Rivers picks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has a point spread prediction Wednesday on the big North Carolina-Duke rivalry. It is on North Carolina (+10) at Duke. Duke at Cameron Indoor certainly can whack any opponent and that includes rival North Carolina. But I will give Roy Williams\u2019 squad some credit for suddenly looking pretty darn … Continue reading Duke vs. North Carolina Odds and Sports Handicapper Picks<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_betting_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10390,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10388\/revisions\/10390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}