{"id":19732,"date":"2011-11-28T09:47:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T14:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=19732"},"modified":"2011-11-28T09:47:41","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T14:47:41","slug":"college-basketball-picks-long-beach-state-49ers-vs-louisville-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-long-beach-state-49ers-vs-louisville-cardinals-19732\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Long Beach State 49ers vs. Louisville Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long Beach State 49ers at No. 7 Louisville Cardinals
\nMonday, 11\/28\/11, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Louisville -10.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Louisville -9.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 134.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 133
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Louisville<\/a>
The Louisville Cardinals are off to a 5-0 start for the second consecutive year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Long Beach State suffered a 73-71 loss to the Montana Grizzlies as three-point road favorites on Saturday, continuing one of the toughest non-conference schedules in school history.\u00a0 The 49ers will be playing five teams ranked in the top 17 of this week\u2019s AP poll.\u00a0 The school made some serious noise in the national landscape by handing the Pittsburgh Panthers an 86-76 home loss on Nov. 16.\u00a0 Long Beach State is 17-13 ATS as an underdog the past two-plus years and the \u2018over\u2019 is 15-10 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The 49ers brought in an experienced group this season, with active Big West Conference leaders in points, rebounds, assists, steals and field goals made.\u00a0 Senior point guard Casper Ware has been named to the John Wooden Award Top 50 List, while also joining Larry Anderson on the 2011-12 Lou Henson Preseason All-America Team.\u00a0 Ware leads the team in averaging 18.8 points per game, but has missed 16 of his last 21 field-goal attempts over the past two games.<\/p>\n

Louisville is set to play its third straight game in the KFC Yum! Center and comes off a 59-54 win over the Ohio Bobcats as 16-point home favorites.\u00a0 The Cardinals have been hampered by injuries for most of the season thus far, as five players have missed time on the floor.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re in survival mode right now is all we\u2019re trying to do,\u201d stated Cardinals coach Rick Pitino.\u00a0 It hasn\u2019t stopped the program from starting 5-0 for the second consecutive season for the first time since the 1954-55 and 1955-56 campaigns.\u00a0 Louisville is 24-25 ATS as a favorite the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals have tallied 13 consecutive home victories and gone 23-2 in the second year inside their new venue.\u00a0 Louisville has been led by a defense that has limited opponents to 54 or fewer points in all five outings.\u00a0 The unit has allowed 60 points or fewer in seven straight home games and nine of ten dating back to last season.\u00a0 Senior forward Kyle Kuric is leading the team as the only double-digit scorer, averaging 13.0 points and 4.6 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Cardinals due to their 7-3 ATS run as a home favorite, while the 49ers are 5-11 ATS as a road underdog of 7 to 12.5 points.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the college basketball handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long Beach State 49ers at No. 7 Louisville Cardinals Monday, 11\/28\/11, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Louisville -10.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Louisville -9.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 134.5 Current Total:\u00a0 133 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Long Beach State suffered a 73-71 loss to the Montana Grizzlies as three-point road favorites on Saturday, continuing one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[5940,5939,5941,5938,556,755],"class_list":["post-19732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-casper-ware","tag-kfc-yum-center","tag-kyle-kuric","tag-long-beach-state-49ers","tag-louisville-cardinals","tag-rick-pitino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19732","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\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19733,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19732\/revisions\/19733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}