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Gambling911.com's free college basketball pick for Sunday March 8, 2009 is a late one. We are on the OVER Portland -134 ½ vs. St. Mary's CA. This game goes off later this evening. In all games as an underdog, Portland has 11 OVERS and 1 UNDER this season. This line can be found at SBG Global
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....Tar Heels Secure 17th Outright ACC Title: Tyler Hansbrough got the send-off he wanted in his final home game at North Carolina, thanks in part to Ty Lawson.
Hansbrough scored 17 points in his final home game to help the No. 2 Tar Heels beat No. 7 Duke 79-71 Sunday and win the Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season title.
Sunday's 79-71 North Carolina victory secured the Tar Heels' 17th outright ACC title, putting them one ahead of rival Duke on the all-time list.
Lawson added 13 points and several key plays late for the Tar Heels (27-3, 13-3 ACC), who earned the top seed for next week's league tournament in Atlanta. North Carolina shot 53 percent and led most of the second half for its sixth win in seven meetings with Duke.
Jon Scheyer scored 24 points for the Blue Devils (25-6, 11-5), while Kyle Singler added 23. But they never could overtake the Tar Heels once they fell behind midway through the second half, falling short in their bid to clinch at least a share of the league's regular-season crown for the first time since 2006.
North Carolina, which beat Duke 101-87 in Cameron Indoor Stadium last month, swept the Blue Devils for only the second time in the past 13 years. The Tar Heels also won the ACC outright for the third time in five seasons.
It was a familiar scenario for North Carolina, which beat the Blue Devils by eight to clinch the league crown in last year's regular-season finale.
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