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Wisconsin Badgers vs. North Carolina Tar Heels
The ACC/Big Ten Challenge ramps back up with a good one Wednesday night in Chapel Hill where the North Carolina Tar Heels (5-1, 3-2 ATS) will look to bounce back from their first loss of the season against the undefeated Wisconsin Badgers (60-, 3-0 ATS); tip-off from the Dean Smith Center is set to go live on ESPN & ESPN.com at 9:30 ET.
Once again, Head coach Bo Ryan’s Badgers have gotten off to a great start to their current campaign winning all six of their games played to date while covering all three of their lined tussles. No, the opposition hasn’t been the toughest, but great teams destroy lesser competition when given the chance, and that’s exactly what Wiscy has done heading into its toughest match-up of the season. Last we saw the Badgers, they won the Chicago Invitational Challenge by disposing of the BYU Cougars 73-56 in the title game. Ben Brust came off the bench to knock down seven of his 10 shots from beyond the arc, while the Badgers limited the Cougars to just 43.1 percent shooting en route to the neutral court win and pointspread cover. Wisconsin won just five of their 11 true road games played last season; this will be its first true road game of the 2011-12 season.
North Carolina went into its regular season campaign ranked 1st in the country with Harrison Barnes, John Henson, and Tyler Zeller all back for another go round at a national championship. Head Coach Roy Williams’ kids parlayed the nation’s top ranking into five straight wins to start the year which included a win atop the USS Carl Vinson’s deck over the Michigan State Spartans. The pointspread cover was the first of three for the Heels in their first four lined games. Then came the championship game of the Las Vegas Invitational against UNLV whom UNC had defeated in the previous three clashes. The Heels were bombarded from beyond the arc, and poor execution at the charity stripe led to the team’s first loss of the season. The Tar Heels possess a pair of blowout over Mississippi Valley State and Tennessee State at home to date, and haven’t fallen at home in their L/16 tries.
These teams last met back in 2005 when UNC scored the 88-82 win but Wiscy cashed as 9.5-point underdogs. The Badgers invade the Dean Dome 5-1 ATS their L/6 non-conference tussles and an impressive 11-1 ATS versus ACC opposition. They do however stand just 2-5 ATS their L/7 games away from Madison. North Carolina is 8-2 ATS its L/10 clashes against the Big 10, but might be without the services of Harrison Barnes for this one who rolled his ankle against UNLV.
PICK: WISC/NC UNDER
Wisconsin Badgers vs. North Carolina Tar Heels
The ACC/Big Ten Challenge ramps back up with a good one Wednesday night in Chapel Hill where the North Carolina Tar Heels (5-1, 3-2 ATS) will look to bounce back from their first loss of the season against the undefeated Wisconsin Badgers (60-, 3-0 ATS); tip-off from the Dean Smith Center is set to go live on ESPN & ESPN.com at 9:30 ET.
Once again, Head coach Bo Ryan’s Badgers have gotten off to a great start to their current campaign winning all six of their games played to date while covering all three of their lined tussles. No, the opposition hasn’t been the toughest, but great teams destroy lesser competition when given the chance, and that’s exactly what Wiscy has done heading into its toughest match-up of the season. Last we saw the Badgers, they won the Chicago Invitational Challenge by disposing of the BYU Cougars 73-56 in the title game. Ben Brust came off the bench to knock down seven of his 10 shots from beyond the arc, while the Badgers limited the Cougars to just 43.1 percent shooting en route to the neutral court win and pointspread cover. Wisconsin won just five of their 11 true road games played last season; this will be its first true road game of the 2011-12 season.
North Carolina went into its regular season campaign ranked 1st in the country with Harrison Barnes, John Henson, and Tyler Zeller all back for another go round at a national championship. Head Coach Roy Williams’ kids parlayed the nation’s top ranking into five straight wins to start the year which included a win atop the USS Carl Vinson’s deck over the Michigan State Spartans. The pointspread cover was the first of three for the Heels in their first four lined games. Then came the championship game of the Las Vegas Invitational against UNLV whom UNC had defeated in the previous three clashes. The Heels were bombarded from beyond the arc, and poor execution at the charity stripe led to the team’s first loss of the season. The Tar Heels possess a pair of blowout over Mississippi Valley State and Tennessee State at home to date, and haven’t fallen at home in their L/16 tries.
These teams last met back in 2005 when UNC scored the 88-82 win but Wiscy cashed as 9.5-point underdogs. The Badgers invade the Dean Dome 5-1 ATS their L/6 non-conference tussles and an impressive 11-1 ATS versus ACC opposition. They do however stand just 2-5 ATS their L/7 games away from Madison. North Carolina is 8-2 ATS its L/10 clashes against the Big 10, but might be without the services of Harrison Barnes for this one who rolled his ankle against UNLV.
PICK: WISC/NC UNDER
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