{"id":20608,"date":"2011-12-28T13:17:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T18:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=20608"},"modified":"2011-12-28T13:17:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T18:17:28","slug":"ncaa-basketball-picks-georgetown-hoyas-vs-louisville-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-picks-georgetown-hoyas-vs-louisville-cardinals-20608\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Picks: Georgetown Hoyas vs. Louisville Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 12 Georgetown Hoyas at No. 4 Louisville Cardinals
\nWednesday, 12\/28\/11, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Louisville -6
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Louisville -5.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 127.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 127
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Louisville Cardinals have won 20 consecutive home games entering tonight's showdown with the Georgetown Hoyas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Georgetown is set to meet up with Louisville for the 12th time and open up Big East Conference play Wednesday night inside the KFC Yum! Center.\u00a0 The Hoyas have won eight consecutive games since suffering a 67-63 loss to the Kansas Jayhawks as 5.5-point neutral court underdogs on Nov. 21.\u00a0 It\u2019s been a dominating period, especially over the last four games, winning those by an average of 22.8 points.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is averaging 76.9 points per game and shooting 48.7 percent from the field, while the defense is limiting opponents to just 57.6 points.\u00a0 Georgetown is 2-0 ATS as an underdog this year.<\/p>\n

The Hoyas have a very youthful roster with 10 freshmen and sophomores making up the bulk of the 13-player roster.\u00a0 Georgetown ranks fourth in the Big East and 25th nationally in field goal percentage.\u00a0 Senior guard Jason Clark is certainly the leader when on the court, starting 77 career games with the program and playing in a total of 108 games.\u00a0 He leads the team in scoring with 15.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

Louisville will play its 10th straight home games and its 12-0 start is the best in 37 years.\u00a0 The Cardinals must focus in on this particular matchup with a weekend showdown against the third-ranked Kentucky Wildcats on the horizon.\u00a0 \u201cOne thing I\u2019ve learned to do with my age, I really don\u2019t look ahead,\u201d stated Cardinals head coach Rick Pitino.\u00a0 He should have his team\u2019s full attention after a lackluster performance last time out, coming from behind to hand Western Kentucky a 70-60 loss.\u00a0 Louisville is 4-4 ATS as a favorite this season.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals have won 20 consecutive home games, which is the program\u2019s longest such streak since 1966-67.\u00a0 Louisville has proven victorious in three consecutive conference openers heading into tonight\u2019s contest.\u00a0 Winning after the Christmas holiday is definitely a tradition around these parts, picking up victories in 17 of 18 games after the Dec. 25 festivities.\u00a0 Louisville trails 4-7 in its series with Georgetown that began in 1948, splitting the last four meetings.\u00a0 Four of those contests have been decided by four points or less.\u00a0 Senior forward Kyle Kuric leads the five starters in scoring 13.3 points per game, while center Gorgui Dieng is grabbing 10.2 boards a game.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Hoyas due to their 6-2 ATS mark as a road underdog of 6.5 points or less, while the Cardinals are 0-3-1 ATS as a home favorite.<\/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":"

No. 12 Georgetown Hoyas at No. 4 Louisville Cardinals Wednesday, 12\/28\/11, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Louisville -6 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Louisville -5.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 127.5 Current Total:\u00a0 127 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Georgetown is set to meet up with Louisville for the 12th time and open up Big East Conference play […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[2497,1341,6251,5834,5939,5941,556,755],"class_list":["post-20608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-east-conference","tag-georgetown-hoyas","tag-gorgui-dieng","tag-jason-clark","tag-kfc-yum-center","tag-kyle-kuric","tag-louisville-cardinals","tag-rick-pitino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20608","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=20608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20609,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20608\/revisions\/20609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}