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College Basketball Betting: No. 3 North Carolina Tops Wake Forest, Covers Point Spread
Tyler Hansbrough led the Tar Heels with 29 points. (AP Images)
North Carolina and Wake Forest bettors weren’t switching over to the Oscars. Not until their teams were done playing, anyway. With the point spread favoring the Tar Heels by 15.5, garbage time still counted for college basketball fans. No. 3 North Carolina was winning going away but the Demon Deacons were beating the spread until Marcus Ginyard hit two free throws with 1:15 to play.
Those were the final points of the game as the Tar Heels won 89-73 to remain atop the ACC and earn the cover for their backers. Tyler Hansbrough had 29 points and Wayne Ellington added 17 for Carolina.
James Johnson had 22 points and eight rebounds for the Deacons.
In other notable top 25 games on Sunday:
No. 21 Notre Dame 94, Syracuse 87: Kyle McAlarney set a Notre Dame record with nine three-pointers and finished with 30 points as the Fighting Irish overpowered the Orange in South Bend, Ind. The game was a push against the point spread and the total was over 157.