{"id":9025,"date":"2009-02-28T02:05:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T07:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=9025"},"modified":"2023-02-07T07:29:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T15:29:40","slug":"saturday-duke-vatech-sportsbook-preview-280209","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/sportsbooks\/saturday-duke-vatech-sportsbook-preview-280209\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke vs. Virginia Tech Sportsbook Preview (Feb. 28)"},"content":{"rendered":"

WEEKEND Hoops Gambling –\u00a0NCAAB: Hokies horrible at home<\/h2>\n

The Virginia Tech Hokies have been costing their backers lots of cash at home and now the Duke Blue Devils are coming to town.<\/p>\n

The Hokies are just 2-7 against the spread<\/strong><\/a> at home and they haven\u2019t covered there since they beat Boston College, 79-71 on January 17th as 3 \u00bd-point favorites.<\/p>\n

Things aren\u2019t going to get much easier on Saturday afternoon at 3:30 pm ET. That\u2019s when the #7 Duke Blue Devils show up in a game nationally televised on ABC.<\/p>\n

You can get all the latest odds here for this contest<\/strong><\/a> and don\u2019t forget our $20.00 Free Play for New Mobile bettors. The first $20.00 wager you make through your mobile phone on any NCAAB or NBA Half-Time Line is Free.<\/p>\n

The Hokies are a classic \u2018bubble team<\/strong>\u2019 for the NCAA tournament at 17-10 overall and 7-6 in the conference. A win over Duke would look great on their resume, and they are hoping to build on the momentum of their last game at Clemson on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Guard Malcolm Delaney had 26 points and swingman A.D. Vassallo added 21. Getting a road win against a ranked team like Clemson was a tremendous performance and quite stunning considering that power forward Jeff Allen was held to five points on 2-11 shooting.\"Online<\/p>\n

The Hokies have a big problem with their offensive balance as no other player averages even five PPG besides their \u2018Big 3\u2019. That could haunt them in this game against a team that has multiple athletes in the starting five and off the bench.<\/p>\n

Duke (23-5) is on a three-game winning streak and has covered the spread in the last two. Those covers were an impressive home win over Wake Forest and a road win at Maryland on Wednesday. Before that however, they drew the ire of bettors with an 0-5 ATS stretch. For the season, they Blue Devils are just 3-6 ATS on the road.<\/p>\n

The turnaround for the Dukies has coincided with a change to the starting lineup. Senior guard Greg Paulus was sent back to the bench and replaced with freshman Elliot Williams.<\/p>\n

Williams, a McDonald\u2019s All-American, has played more than 30 minutes in each of the last three wins and brings good height at 6\u20194\u201d as well as great defensive pressure in the backcourt.<\/p>\n

Duke still has a small starting lineup and they might struggle against big teams come tournament time, but that shouldn\u2019t be an issue against Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n

Note: <\/strong>That these teams met once already this year and it was a laugher, 69-44 at Duke. The Blue Devils even managed to cover the 17-point spread and while they won\u2019t be nearly as big of favorites this time around, the Hokies must play the game of their lives and hope to get a huge boost from the home crowd to have a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday afternoon at 3:30 pm ET. That\u2019s when the #7 Duke Blue Devils show up in a game nationally televised on ABC, against the home team the Virginia Tech Hokies…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[4816,6249,11176,6250,4452,11175,11177,10926,4208,4213,6999,8887,4691,66516,1178,8884],"class_list":["post-9025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sportsbooks","tag-bet-on-college-basketball","tag-bet-on-ncaab","tag-blue-devils-vs-hokies","tag-cbb-odds","tag-college-hoops","tag-duke-vs-va-tech","tag-duke-vs-virginia-tech","tag-monday-ncaab-picks","tag-ncaa-basketball-betting","tag-ncaa-basketball-point-spreads","tag-ncaab-betting-predictions","tag-ncaab-hoops-betting","tag-ncaab-predictions","tag-point-spreads","tag-sportsbookcom","tag-sportsbookcom-cbb-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107007,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9025\/revisions\/107007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}