COLLEGE BASKETBALL PICK – SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 2010
#8 Duke Blue Devils (17-3) v #7 Georgetown Hoyas (15-4)
The No. 8 Duke Blue Devils will do battle with No. 7 Georgetown Hoyas in non-conference clash on Thursday at the Verizon Center in the Nation’s Capital.
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The Devils beat the Hoyas 76-67 the last time the two teams met on Jan 17, 2009, wining their eighth straight and finishing their home nonconference schedule by winning their Division I-best 68th consecutive non-ACC game at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Georgetown will try to avoid a repeat as they look to get back on the rails after losing to No.5 Syracuse 73-56 on Monday night. Austin Freeman scored a team-high 23 points while Jason Clark had 15 in the loss. A much taller Orange squad proved to be too much for the Hoyas who struggled scoring from inside and eventually fell when their perimeter shooting dried up. Leading scorer Greg Monroe recorded just eight points and fouled out for the first time this season with six minutes remaining.
Meanwhile Duke’s Kyle Singler scored 12 of his 20 points in the second half as the Blue Devils thrashed Florida State 70-56 on Wednesday night for their 14th straight win at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Jon Scheyer had a team-high 22 points in the win. The Devils shot 43 percent against the nation’s toughest 35.5 field-goal percentage defense and forced 22 turnovers. The Devils are just 1-3 on the road this season while the Hoyas is 9-1 at home. Duke is 4-1 this season against nationally ranked teams.
The odds makers have Georgetown as -2-point favorites in this one.
Georgetown will need more production from its bench. Only four subs have scored in Big East play this season. The Blue Devils rely heavily on Jon Scheyer, Nolan Smith and Kyle Singler for much of their offense, but have a number of players to rotate against Greg Monroe in the paint. Monroe will be hounded and could expect a lot of trips to the charity stripe.
This shapes up as another one of those physical types of games and I expect the Hoyas to take this one at home.
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- Duke is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games
- Duke is 17-3 SU in its last 20 games
- The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Duke’s last 6 games
- Duke is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games on the road
- Georgetown is 15-4 SU in its last 19 games
- The total has gone OVER in 5 of Georgetown’s last 6 games
- Georgetown is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
- The total has gone OVER in 4 of Georgetown’s last 5 games at home
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