{"id":21350,"date":"2012-01-29T10:06:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T15:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21350"},"modified":"2012-01-29T10:06:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T15:06:38","slug":"big-east-conference-basketball-notre-dame-fighting-irish-vs-connecticut-huskies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/big-east-conference-basketball-notre-dame-fighting-irish-vs-connecticut-huskies-21350\/","title":{"rendered":"Big East Conference Basketball: Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. Connecticut Huskies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Notre Dame Fighting Irish at No. 19 Connecticut Huskies
\nSunday, 1\/29\/12, 12:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Connecticut -8.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Connecticut -8.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 129
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 128
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Connecticut Huskies are 7-1 SU versus the Notre Dame Fighting Irish inside the XL Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Notre Dame will conclude a two-game road trip Sunday in playing the Connecticut Huskies inside the XL Center in Hartford, Conn.\u00a0 The Fighting Irish have won and covered their last two contests, while going \u201cunder\u201d the total in five consecutive games.\u00a0 On of those victories came against then-No. 1 team Syracuse, but head coach Mike Brey was more impressed in his squad not suffering a letdown versus Seton Hall.\u00a0 \u201cIn some ways, this game is bigger than Saturday because we handled a great win so well mentally,\u201d\u00a0 Brey stated this week.\u00a0 Notre Dame is 5-9 ATS on the year and the \u201cunder\u201d is 12-3 in that span.<\/p>\n

The Fighting Irish will be meeting with the Huskies for the second time in a span of just over two weeks, as they had their 29-game home streak snapped in the first contest.\u00a0 Notre Dame came into that contest with three straight wins in the series, but dropped a 67-53 decision as two-point home underdogs on Jan. 14.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that the team\u2019s 53 points in that meeting was the school\u2019s fewest at home during the Brey era.<\/p>\n

Connecticut enters this contest with a 14-5 overall record that includes a 4-3 mark in Big East Conference play.\u00a0 The Huskies are led offensively by the play of Jeremy Lamb, who leads the team in scoring 17.9 points per game, topping the 20-plus point mark in seven games this season.\u00a0 Andre Drummond is another player to watch in this contest, recording three straight double-doubles in conference action, as the squad looks to snap a two-game losing streak.\u00a0 Connecticut is 2-4 ATS versus Big East opponents this year.<\/p>\n

The Huskies have held eight of their last 12 opponents to under 40 percent shooting, while leading the conference in allowing Big East teams to shoot just 37.6 percent overall.\u00a0 Connecticut holds a 17-9 advantage over Notre Dame in the overall series, winning seven of the last 11 meetings.\u00a0 The Huskies are 7-1 against the Irish at the XL Center.\u00a0 Offensively, the team may receive some additional help from Ryan Boatright Sunday, as he\u2019s been cleared to play after missing the last three games due to an NCAA investigation.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Huskies due to their 5-2 ATS mark at home, while the Fighting Irish are 0-4 ATS on Sundays.<\/p>\n

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Notre Dame Fighting Irish at No. 19 Connecticut Huskies Sunday, 1\/29\/12, 12:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Connecticut -8.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Connecticut -8.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 129 Current Total:\u00a0 128 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Notre Dame will conclude a two-game road trip Sunday in playing the Connecticut Huskies inside the XL Center in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[2497,2499,5665,1311,6412],"class_list":["post-21350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-east-conference","tag-connecticut-huskies","tag-jeremy-lamb","tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish","tag-xl-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21350","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=21350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21352,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21350\/revisions\/21352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}