{"id":3614,"date":"2009-02-28T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/duke-virginia-tech-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-02-28T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T14:30:00","slug":"duke-virginia-tech-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/duke-virginia-tech-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke-Virginia Tech Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Duke Blue Devils and the Virginia Tech Hokies will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Cassell Coliseum. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Odds aren’t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Gerald<\/st2:GivenName> Henderson<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went for 19 points and eight rebounds to lead Duke past Maryland<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> 78-67 on Wednesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Duke<\/st2:Sn> covered as 5-point road favorites as the game played over the 146-point total listed by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Malcolm<\/st2:GivenName> Delaney<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went for 26 points and six assists to lift Virginia<\/st2:GivenName> Tech<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> over Clemson 80-77 on Wednesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Virginia<\/st2:GivenName> Tech<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> cashed as 11-point road underdogs as the game played over the 145.5-point total set by sportsbooks. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Duke<\/st2:Sn> has won 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Duke: 23-5 SU, 13-13-1 ATS
Virginia Tech: 17-10 SU, 9-13 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Duke most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 7-3
Before playing Florida State are 8-2
After playing Maryland are 6-4
After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n

Virginia Tech most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 5-5
Before playing North Carolina are 4-3
After playing Clemson are 4-3
After a win are 7-3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Duke’s last 6 games
Duke is 20-5 SU in its last 25 games
Duke is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Virginia Tech
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Duke’s last 5 games when playing Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech is 16-4 SU in its last 20 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Virginia Tech’s last 5 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Virginia Tech’s last 5 games when playing Duke
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Virginia Tech’s last 11 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Duke home to Florida<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>, Tuesday, March 3
Virginia<\/st2:GivenName> Tech<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> home to North Carolina<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Wednesday, March 4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Duke Blue Devils and the Virginia Tech Hokies will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Cassell Coliseum. Odds aren’t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. Gerald Henderson went for 19 points and eight rebounds to lead Duke past Maryland … Continue reading Duke-Virginia Tech Odds Preview<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614","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=3614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}