Expert Betting Picks – Desperate Clemson to Hold the Fort at Home in ACC Regular Season Finale

The Clemson Tigers (19-10 SU, 11-13-1 ATS, 8-16-1 O/U) may not have the national ranking that the 24th-ranked Virginia Tech Hokies (19-9 SU, 11-11-2 ATS, 11-13 O/U) will bring into their ACC regular season finale on Saturday, but what the Tigers do have is a whole lot of desperation as they seek to take another step toward securing what, right now, looks like a tenuous NCAA Championship Tournament berth at best.

Virginia Tech at Clemson 12:00 PM ET
Littlejohn Coliseum, Clemson, SC
TV: ESPN2, ESPN3

Key Head-to-Head Trends

• Hokies are 4-0 ATS in the last 4 meetings in Clemson.
• Over is 5-1-1 in the last 7 meetings.
• Underdog is 7-2 ATS in the last 9 meetings.
• Road team is 7-1 ATS in the last 8 meetings.

Virginia Tech 411
The Hokies got a hug win one week ago by upsetting Duke in its 64-60 home win, but failed to capitalize on their impressive win by falling to Boston College 76-61 on Tuesday. The Hokies also failed to cash in against the expert sports betting picks odds in the loss as a 8.5-point home favorite to fall to 1-2-1 ATS over its L/4 games.

Clemson 411
The Tigers had their two-game SU winning streak broken in its 70-59 loss to Duke on Wednesday but managed to narrowly cash in as a 12-point expert betting picks road underdog to improve to 2-1 ATS over the last three games.

Analysis: Virginia Tech has the only national ranking in this contest and has taken two straight over Clemson following a four-game winning streak by the Tigers.
Unfortunately for Virginia Tech betting backers, my expert betting picks selection for this contest is a pick for the desperate Clemson Tigers to record the SU and narrow ATS payday.

The Hokies average four points per game more than the Tigers in this contest, they also allow two more points per game defensively than Clemson and have won just four of their nine road games this season while going 4-4-1 against the expert betting picks odds.

Virginia Tech has also gone 1-3-1 ATS in their last five road games while dropping two of their last three road games overall.

I really like the Clemson Tigers to handle their business in this matchup and take down their ACC counterparts to and cash in as a likely home favorite of somewhere between 1 and 4 points

Clemson is 6-1 ATS in their last seven home games against a team with a winning road record and 4-1-1 against the expert betting picks odds  in their last half-dozen games following an SU loss.

The Tigers are 5-2 ATS in their last seven Saturday games and have split the last 10 matchups against Virginia Tech evenly. I know the Virginia Tech Hokies have the two best players on the floor in this contest in Malcolm Delaney and Jeff Allen, but I like Clemson’s bench a bit more as they have three players that average just under 10 points per game this season, in addition to three starters that also average double-digits in scoring.

Clemson has also won four of its L/5 home games and my expert betting picks selection here says the smart play is to back the Clemson Tigers.

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