{"id":12739,"date":"2011-01-24T18:27:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T23:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=12739"},"modified":"2011-01-24T18:27:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T23:27:12","slug":"college-basketball-betting-preview-14-notre-dame-fighting-irish-at-2-pitt-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-betting-preview-14-notre-dame-fighting-irish-at-2-pitt-panthers-12739\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Betting Preview: #14 Notre Dame Fighting Irish at #2 Pitt Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"

#14 Notre Dame Fighting Irish at #2 Pitt Panthers
\nJan 24, 2011 at 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Pitt -10
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Pitt -11
\nOpening Total: 139
\nCurrent Total: 136
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 Pitt -650 \/ ND +525
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Pitt -750 \/ ND +550<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tyler's younger brother is a stud too<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pittsburgh has continued their recent dominance and a victory over the then-unbeaten Syracuse Orange has propelled them to the #2 rank overall.<\/p>\n

Notre Dame has been a poor road team this year and have dropped their last three on the road and managed to average only 56.3 points per game, losing all three by an average of 17.3 points.\u00a0 Tyler Hansbrough’s younger brother Ben is dominating for the Fighting Irish, averaging 18.3 points and shooting 45.6% from three.\u00a0 If Notre Dame is to stay in tonight’s game, Hansbrough is going to have to have a big game on the interior.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Notre Dame is 1-4 ATS in their last 5 road games and 1-5 SU in their last 6 road games.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in all 5 of their last 5 on the road and they are 1-5 SU in their last 6 road games against Pitt.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh is 5-0 SU in their last 5 and 5-0 SU in their last 5 at home.\u00a0 They are 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games against the Fighting Irish and 6-3 SU in their last 9 against Notre Dame.\u00a0 They are 1-4 ATS in their last 5 home games against Notre Dame and 5-1 SU in their last 6 at home against them.<\/p>\n

Other than Ben Hansbrough, Notre Dame has three other players who average double figures:\u00a0 Tim Abromaitis, Carleton Scott, and Tyrone Nash.\u00a0 Along with Scott Martin and Eric Atkins gives you the top 6 players and rotational players on Notre Dame’s team.\u00a0 Abromaitus, a 6’8″ senior forward, averages 14.9 points per game and 6.7 rebounds per game.\u00a0 He’s scored in double figures in all but 2 of the Irish’s games and has scored 20 or more 7 times already this season.\u00a0 He’s also notched two double doubles.\u00a0 6’7″ senior Carleton Scott is also putting up 11.4 points per game and grabbing 6.3 rebounds per night.\u00a0 He’s shooting 35.9% (23 of 64) from three and has hit a three in 9 of the 13 Notre Dame games.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh is led by the trio of Ashton Gibbs, Brad Wanamaker, and Gilbert Brown, who together combine for 40.2 points per game, slightly more than half of Pittsburgh’s offensive attack.\u00a0 Like Notre Dame, they have a 6 man rotation, in which all 6 players average over 20 minutes and over 7 points per game.\u00a0 Gibbs, a 6’2″ junior guard, is leading the way in scoring with 15.9 points per game while shooting a lights out 45.4% from three (64 of 141).\u00a0 He’s hit at least 2 threes in every game except the win on December 22nd againt American.\u00a0 He’s had two games with 10 attempts and is averaging 7 attempts from three per night.\u00a0 Atkins of Notre Dame will have to be careful and consciencious of where Gibbs is at all time and he can’t afford to play any help defense really.\u00a0 If Gibbs gets hot, it could be a blowout in the favor of Pittsburgh, but on the same hand, they are good enough that if he has a bad game, they could still win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

#14 Notre Dame Fighting Irish at #2 Pitt Panthers Jan 24, 2011 at 7:00 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Pitt -10 Current Line:\u00a0 Pitt -11 Opening Total: 139 Current Total: 136 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 Pitt -650 \/ ND +525 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Pitt -750 \/ ND +550 Pittsburgh has continued their recent dominance and a victory over the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":9747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[410,4386],"class_list":["post-12739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-notre-dame","tag-pittsburgh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12739","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\/40250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12740,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12739\/revisions\/12740"}],"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=12739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}