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03/11/2010 - Greensboro, NC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Sammy Zeglinski scored a season-high 21 points to lead Virginia to a 68-62 victory over Boston College in the first round of the ACC Tournament at the Greensboro Coliseum.
Virginia (15-15), seeded ninth in the 12-team field, halted a nine-game losing streak and prevailed despite being without leading scorer and second team All- ACC selection Sylven Landesberg, suspended by head coach Tony Bennett prior to the regular-season finale for academic reasons.
Zeglinski helped offset the loss by making 8-of-15 shots, including 5-of-10 from three-point range, with Jeff Jones adding 14 points and Jerome Meyinsse 12 for the Cavaliers, who will face top-seeded Duke in Friday's quarterfinals. Mike Scott posted a double-double in the win, compiling 11 points and a game- best 13 rebounds.
Rakim Sanders led Boston College (15-16) with 22 points, while Reggie Jackson finished with 18 points and nine rebounds in a losing cause.
Virginia trailed 23-17 after Sanders buried a three-pointer near the midway point of the first half, but took control with a 17-2 run over the next 8 1/2 minutes. Zeglinski's fourth triple of the period put the Cavaliers up 32-25 with 2:12 left before intermission, and the lead was extended to nine points on Scott's fastbreak dunk 25 seconds later.
Boston College pulled within 34-27 at the break on a Jackson layup with 1:16 left in the opening period.
The Cavaliers' advantage swelled to as many as 11 points early in the second half, but an 8-0 burst capped by Dallas Elmore's layup with 8:44 to go cut the Eagles' deficit to 49-46. Sanders scored the first six points of the spurt.
Virginia answered by scoring seven of the next nine points, however, with another Zeglinski trey pushing the margin to 56-48 with 5:41 left. The Eagles would get no closer than five points the rest the way.
Zeglinski led all scorers with 16 first-half points on 6-of-9 shooting.
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In any football or basketball game (the main sports that use point spreads) there are two teams playing against each other.
Those teams, though, are rarely exactly evenly matched – meaning that typically one team has a better chance than the other to win the game. If bettors were allowed to bet on who was simply going to win the game, smart ones would obviously bet on the better team (likely winning more than 50% of the time in the process).
If winning were that easy the Las Vegas and online sportsbooks would stop taking any bets! This is where the point spread comes in: the basic function of the point spread is to balance the likelihood of each team “winning” by adjusting the final score by the point spread. After this adjustment is made you get the Against The Spread result (ATS result for short).
Let’s look at Super Bowl XXXIX, New England Patriots vs. Philadelphia Eagles. Most people believed the defending champ Patriots to be the better team – so if betting were simply based upon which team would win the game, an uneven majority of people would have wagered on New England. But, by using the point spread, the bookmakers adjusted the terms of the bet, evening the proposition so about half the people believed the Pats to be the smart bet, while the other half considered Philly to be the smart bet.
New England Patriots -7 vs. Philadelphia Eagles
The better team, called the Favorite, is expected to win the game and must “give” or “lay” points to the weaker team. The favorite is listed with a minus sign and the number of points they are favored by (e.g., New England -7)
In the case of our example, New England must not only win the game, but they must win by more than 7 points for Pats bettors to have a winning ATS result. An Eagles bettor wins his bet either if:
There was also the possibility that the final score could land exactly on the spread number (for example, the Pats winning 28-21 when -7), which is called a “push” or “no action” and a refund is then issued to bettors of both teams.
The same game with the same point spread can be considered from the weaker team’s perspective: The Underdog (Philly in the case of our example) is not expected to win the game and online football betting thus receives or “gets” points given by the stronger team. When a game is stated from the underdog’s perspective the team is listed with a plus sign and the number of points they are underdogs by:
Philadelphia Eagles +7 vs. New England Patriots
Keep in mind that Philadelphia +7 and New England -7 is the same point spread on the same game, simply stated differently. The first is from the underdog’s perspective; the later is from the favorite’s.
Not a must, but for some a mathematical approach is insightful. You can determine the ATS winner by either:
Let’s look at the actual result of Super Bowl XXXIX: New England 24 Philadelphia 21
The favorite, New England, won the game but not by more than the point spread they were favored by (7), so the ATS result was a LOSS for Pats bettors.
Looking at it from the underdog’s perspective, Philly did not win the game, but they lost by less than the point spread (7), so the ATS result was a WIN for Eagle bettors.
Mathematically considered, 24 for the favorite Pats minus 7 equals 17, which is less than the 20 the Eagles scored, so the underdog Eagles win the ATS result (or you could figure 20 plus 7 equals 27 for the Eagles, which is more than 24 for the Pats).
Emily’s boyfriend understood the point spread and wagered $100 on the Eagles at +7. The Eagles may not have gotten a Super Bowl ring, but since they won the ATS result Emily’s boyfriend cashed his bet – giving him money to take her out to a nice dinner.
And now hopefully you understand how to read point spreads, putting you one step closer to joining the fun of sports betting.
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