The Florida State Seminoles (19-7, 13-11 ATS) will attempt to take their third straight from the Duke Blue Devils (23-4, 12-15 ATS) on Thursday night when the two ACC powerhouses lock horns for the second time this season; Tune to ESPN or log onto ESPN3.com to take this one in live starting at 7:00 ET.

Leroy’s Sportsbook currently has the Blue Devils installed as short 1-point road favorites with the ‘total’ lined at 140.

A win here tonight would allow the Dookies to tie the North Carolina Tar Heels atop the ACC standings and take control of the conference with them having already toppled their most hated rival in dramatic fashion a couple weeks back. Coach K’s kids have been every bit as good as their 10-2 SU mark in the conference indicates, with the only two losses coming at home in overtime to the Miami Hurricanes and to tonight’s opponent who got the best of them at Cameron Indoor at the buzzer. Since shockingly falling to the Canes on Super Bowl Sunday, frosh phenom Austin Rivers has led his squad to four straight victories over UNC, Maryland, NC State, and Boston College. They won those games by an average of just over 12 points per game and covered the closing number in all but three of them. With only a trip to Wake Forest scheduled to go along with two home games against VTECH & UNC, Duke could hold the inside track for the ACC Championship if indeed it manages to get by the Noles in tonight’s spot. Duke’s 6-2 SU & 5-3 ATS away from Durham on the year.

After finally getting further than the 1^st round of the NCAA Tourney a season ago, Head Coach Leonard Hamilton now has his squad on the brink of winning the ACC after finishing in third place a year ago. Save for shocking losses at both Boston College (64-60) and Clemson (79-59), the Noles have been every bit as dominating as both North Carolina and Duke has been within the conference. Even more so at home where FSU checks in 14-1 SU & 8-5 ATS; that mark improves to 6-0 SU & 3-3 ATS in the ACC with it failing to cover each of its last three. The Seminoles snapped a string of four straight pointspread defeats its last time out at NC State where it pounded the Wolfpack 76-62 as two-point underdogs. The win moved them into a tie with Duke for second place, but since they already hold the tiebreaker, they would surpass the Blue Devils if indeed they sweep the season series.

FSU has won and covered each of the last two meetings between these rivals winning 66-61 as seven-point home underdogs in January of last season and 76-73 at Duke as 10.5-point underdogs this past January; Michael Snaer’s last-second 3-Ball proved to be the difference in the neck and neck affair. Duke checks in just 5-5 SU & ATS the L/10 times it went off the board favored by two-point or less, and will invade Tallahassee having covered each of their L/5 road tussles. FSU counters with rock solid 6-4 SU & 7-3 ATS tallies the L/10 times it was dogged by two-points or less, and has also covered six of its L/8 versus +.600 opposition. Duke’s gone a very poor 2-6 ATS its L/8 visits to the Donald L. Tucker Center, with the ‘under’ cashing in all eight of those match-ups.