{"id":21874,"date":"2012-02-27T04:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21874"},"modified":"2012-02-26T20:32:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T01:32:25","slug":"big-east-conference-basketball-notre-dame-fighting-irish-vs-georgetown-hoyas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/big-east-conference-basketball-notre-dame-fighting-irish-vs-georgetown-hoyas-21874\/","title":{"rendered":"Big East Conference Basketball: Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. Georgetown Hoyas"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 18 Notre Dame Fighting Irish at No. 8 Georgetown Hoyas
\nMonday, 2\/27\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Georgetown -6.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Georgetown -6.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 119
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 118.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Georgetown Hoyas guard Jason Clark will be playing his final game inside the Verizon Center on Monday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Notre Dame will conclude a two-game road swing and look to bounce back from a 61-58 loss to the St. John\u2019s Red Storm as six-point road favorites on Saturday.\u00a0 The Fighting Irish had their nine-game Big East Conference win streak snapped in that defeat, managing to hit just 4-of-31 shots from beyond the arc.\u00a0 \u201cThe law of averages catches up with you a little bit,\u201d commented Fighting Irish head coach Mike Brey.\u00a0 Monday\u2019s game will be the 28th meeting in this series, as the program looks to even up the series at 14 wins apiece.\u00a0 Notre Dame is 3-1 ATS as a road underdog of 6.5 to 9 points, while the \u201cunder\u201d is 4-0 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Fighting Irish have three players that average in double figures, with guards Eric Atkins and Jerian Grant leading the way in scoring 12.7 points per game.\u00a0 Senior guard Scott Martin served as the team\u2019s offensive spark plug in defeat last time out, scoring 18 points, but missing all four of his shot attempts from downtown.\u00a0 Defensively, the team has allowed opponents to shoot just 38.4 percent from the field over the last 10 games, including just 26 percent from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n

Georgetown has won three of its last four games and comes off a 67-46 win over the Villanova Wildcats as 10-point home favorites.\u00a0 The Hoyas have alternated covering the spread over their past five games.\u00a0 This particular contest will serve as the program\u2019s last regular-season games inside the Verizon Center, as it will honor guard Jason Clark and center Henry Sims.\u00a0 Clark has reached the 1,000-point mark for his career earlier this season, coming in leading the team in averaging 14.5 points per game.\u00a0 Notre Dame is 7-9 ATS versus conference opponents and the \u201cover\u201d is 9-7 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Hoyas will be leaning heavily on their senior duo in this affair, with Sims reaching double figures in scoring for the 17th time last time out, finishing with 12 points and six rebounds.\u00a0 He is third on the team in scoring, averaging 11.3 points per game, while sitting second in grabbing 5.5 rebounds per game.\u00a0 Georgetown definitely gets after it defensively, ranking second among Big East teams in allowing 58.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Hoyas due to the home team being 5-2 ATS in the last seven meetings, while the Fighting Irish are 3-11-2 ATS when playing on Monday.<\/p>\n

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No. 18 Notre Dame Fighting Irish at No. 8 Georgetown Hoyas Monday, 2\/27\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Georgetown -6.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Georgetown -6.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 119 Current Total:\u00a0 118.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Notre Dame will conclude a two-game road swing and look to bounce back from a 61-58 loss […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":19834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[2497,6160,1341,5834,6485,5806,1311],"class_list":["post-21874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-east-conference","tag-eric-atkins","tag-georgetown-hoyas","tag-jason-clark","tag-jerian-grant","tag-mike-brey","tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21874","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=21874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21875,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21874\/revisions\/21875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}