CBB: Maryland at Duke (1:00 PM ET, CBS)

Saturday’s college hoops betting board is loaded with 96 games, and Sportsbook.com will host the action for all of them. Be sure to stay tuned to the LIVE ODDS & GAME MATCHUPS pages throughout the day for all the late breaking updates. Some of the best ga

2010-02-12

Saturday’s college hoops betting board is loaded with 96 games, and Sportsbook.com will host the action for all of them. Be sure to stay tuned to the LIVE ODDS & GAME MATCHUPS pages throughout the day for all the late breaking updates. Some of the best games are on TV, some are not. One of the more compelling games is on CBS at 1:00 PM ET between ACC rivals Duke & Maryland.

Before the season began, the general feeling was the ACC might be more competitive from top to bottom than in recent years. Those beliefs have been prophetic and this will be a matchup that will help sort out the logjam. Maryland (16-6, 10-7 ATS) has a nice collection of players, but for them to emerge victorious, forward Landon Milbourne and guard Greivis Vasquez have to be the Terps’ top point producers. Look for Duke to play rough and do some talking, since Vasquez can get off his game, flapping his lips and being too emotional. Maryland is 16-7 AT in road games when facing a team with a winning record past the midpoint of season and is 5-2 and 5-1 ATS in true away games this season.

Duke (20-4, 15-8 ATS) looked like a tired squad in its loss to Georgetown at the end of January, playing four games in 10 days. Now this ACC clash will be their fourth in nine days, but at least they will have the crowd support to spur them on. The Blue Devils could really use Kyle Singler to begin filling the bucket with greater regularity, since the team has become too dependent on Jon Scheyer to do everything. Singler has to hit medium and three-point shots to open up the lane for players in the paint, which in turn opens up jump shooters to have clearer looks. Duke is 8-1 ATS vs. good passing teams, averaging 16 or more assists a contest.

Maryland is 8-1 ATS in 2010 and Duke is 13-0 and 9-3 ATS at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The outright winner is 13-0-1 ATS in last 14 head-to-head encounters for the only teams with two ACC losses. The StatFox Power Line shows Duke by 9. How does that compare to the actual at Sportsbook.com

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