{"id":12354,"date":"2011-01-10T00:08:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T05:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=12354"},"modified":"2011-01-10T10:32:52","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T15:32:52","slug":"monday-big-east-basketball-picks-notre-dame-vs-marquette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/monday-big-east-basketball-picks-notre-dame-vs-marquette-12354\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Big East Basketball Picks: Notre Dame Vs Marquette"},"content":{"rendered":"

Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Marquette Golden Eagles, Bradley Center, Milwaukee, WI
\nMonday, January 10, 2011, 7:00 pm Eastern, TV: ESPN2
\nOpening Line: Marquette -3
\nCurrent Line: Marquette -3
\nOpening Total: 146
\nCurrent Total: 147
\nMoney Line: Marquette -155 \/ Notre Dame +135
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Notre Dame's Ben Hansbrough scored a career-high 26 points on Saturday against St. John's<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 14th-ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish (14-2, 3-1 Big East) will try to win their third straight conference game and first on the road when they visit the Marquette Golden Eagles (11-5, 2-1) on Monday.\u00a0 Notre Dame won at Marquette (-3) in overtime last year 63-60, which is the only game the Fighting Irish have covered in the past five meetings between the teams.<\/p>\n

The Golden Eagles had won the previous two meetings, including a 71-64 victory at Notre Dame last January 26.\u00a0 They dropped to 0-4 against Top 25 teams with an 89-81 loss at #5 Pitt on Saturday and will need to play much better defensively in order to pull off a win here.\u00a0 The Panthers shot 60 percent from the field, becoming just the second opponent in nine years to accomplish that feat against them.<\/p>\n

Despite the loss, Marquette\u2019s Darius Johnson-Odom scored 20 points and is one of two Big East players to total 20 or more in every league game so far.\u00a0 Johnson-Odom and the Golden Eagles should be able to rebound back at home, where they have limited opponents to just 64.4 points per game and 39.7 shooting this season.<\/p>\n

The Fighting Irish are still dealing with the loss of forward Carleton Scott, who leads the team with 25 blocked shots but has missed the last two games with a partial tear of his left hamstring.\u00a0 The 6-foot-8, 218-pounder also averages 11.9 points and 6.4 rebounds per game, although Notre Dame has found a way to win two straight without him.\u00a0 However, both of those games were at home.\u00a0 The Irish lost their only conference road game 70-58 at Syracuse on January 1.<\/p>\n

Ben Hansbrough has stepped up in Scott\u2019s absence, averaging 23.5 points in the last two games.\u00a0 Hansbrough scored a career-high 26 points in a 76-61 rout of St. John\u2019s on Saturday, making 8 of 15 shots from the field, including 4 of 9 from 3-point range.\u00a0 He totaled only five points in the last meeting with Marquette, missing all five of his 3-point attempts.\u00a0 Notre Dame as a team made just 3 of 21 shots from beyond the 3-point arc but still found a way to pull off the win.<\/p>\n

The Golden Eagles are 2-6 against the spread in their last eight home games, and the OVER is 10-3 in their last 13 games overall.\u00a0 The Irish are 10-2 ATS in their last 12 conference games and 7-2 ATS in their last nine away from home.<\/p>\n

Our college basketball handicappers are red hot as conference play hits full stride. Don\u2019t miss out on any more basketball betting winners this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Marquette Golden Eagles, Bradley Center, Milwaukee, WI Monday, January 10, 2011, 7:00 pm Eastern, TV: ESPN2 Opening Line: Marquette -3 Current Line: Marquette -3 Opening Total: 146 Current Total: 147 Money Line: Marquette -155 \/ Notre Dame +135 The 14th-ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish (14-2, 3-1 Big East) will try […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":9747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[559,4319,3887,4316,3943,4339,4317,4318,1311],"class_list":["post-12354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-east","tag-big-east-basketball","tag-college-basketball-betting","tag-free-college-basketball-pick","tag-marquette-golden-eagles","tag-marquette-notre-dame-preview","tag-ncaa-basketball-odds","tag-ncaa-hoops-picks","tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12357,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions\/12357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}