Posted on
1/23/2008 4:28:17 PM
Bet on NCAAB - Georgia Tech (+ 2) vs. North Carolina State (- 2)
By D.S. Williamson
Whenever Georgia Tech gets points, I always take a close look at the game. Georgia Tech is a fantastic defensive team. They can keep games close versus almost any other team in college basketball. They lost by only 7 points to Georgetown and 1 point to North Carolina. The North Carolina State Wolfpack have gone 0-3-1 against the spread in their last four games. That’s not a good sign for them.
Here are more trends:
The HOME team is 10 and 4 against the spread in the last 14 meetings between these two teams.
The Georgia Tech Yellowjackets are 2 and 7 against the spread in the last 9 meetings between these two teams.
The Georgia Tech Yellowjackets are 1 and 6 against the spread in their last 7 games versus the N.C State in North Carolina.
In this ACC rivalry it appears that the home team always has the edge. As much as I like Georgia Tech’s defense, I really can’t go against the above trends. The against the spread line is right where it should be, 2 points, and Georgia Tech has a tendency to play with emotion versus the North Carolina’s and Georgetown’s but then to fall on their face versus a team like Miami, Florida and Virginia Tech.
That means that Georgia Tech isn’t quite where they need to be in order to win a game on the road against a pretty good team from the ACC.
The N.C. State Wolfpack aren’t exactly putting the ACC on fire but the fact that they are 12 and 5 straight-up and, before their 31 point loss to North Carolina, were ranked in the Top 25 tells me that they could make short work of the Yellowjackets tonight.
Trends, straight-up records, against the spread records - - everything appears to be in N.C. State’s favor tonight. I’m not going to argue against all of that.
The BetUS college basketball betting line is North Carolina State Wolfpack – 2 against the spread on the road versus the Georgia Tech Yellowjackets.
I like the Wolfpack to cover the spread tonight.
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