{"id":22340,"date":"2012-03-17T11:22:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T16:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=22340"},"modified":"2012-03-17T11:22:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T16:22:02","slug":"ncaa-bracket-2012-new-mexico-lobos-vs-louisville-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-bracket-2012-new-mexico-lobos-vs-louisville-cardinals-22340\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Bracket 2012: New Mexico Lobos vs. Louisville Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 5 New Mexico Lobos vs. No. 4 Louisville Cardinals
\nSaturday, 3\/17\/12, 9:40 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Louisville -1
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Louisville -1.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 127
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 128
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Louisville Cardinals PG Peyton Siva has been tremendous over the last five games heading into Saturday's third-round NCAA Tournament matchup against the New Mexico Lobos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New Mexico has won six games in a row and captured a 75-68 win over the Long Beach State 49ers as four-point favorites in the second round of the 2012 NCAA Tournament.\u00a0 \u201cThis team just wants to continue doing special things, and that is the next step,\u201d commented Lobos head coach Steve Alford.\u00a0 The program is now 8-13 all-time in the Big Event and Alford improved his career mark to 10-8.\u00a0 Alford has led the squad to a 12-5 record against ranked opponents during his time on campus.\u00a0 New Mexico is 6-1 ATS on a neutral floor this year with the \u201cover\u201d being 4-3 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Lobos are 12-2 on Saturdays this season and have tallied a 17-2 mark on the weekend overall.\u00a0 New Mexico has registered a 126-45 record in five days under Alford\u2019s direction, which is the most wins in school history in any five-year period.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that the program is 0-2 all-time against Louisville in the NCAA Tournament, while going 4-20 against current Big East Conference members.<\/p>\n

Louisville is a step away from reaching the Sweet 16 for the 18th time in school history, coming away with a 69-62 win over the Davidson Wildcats as six-point favorites in the second round.\u00a0 The Cardinals are 4-1 when facing a No. 5 seed in the NCAA Tournament and head coach Rick Pitino has garnered an impressive 31-6 mark in this event when his team is the higher seed.\u00a0 Louisville is 10-6 ATS in March the last two-plus seasons and the \u201cunder\u201d is 13-3 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals recent five-game win streak has been led by the play of point guard Peyton Siva, who has averaged 14.4 points, 5.4 rebounds, 5.8 assists and 2.6 steals over that span.\u00a0 Louisville has also been getting after it defensively, holding opponents to 60 or fewer points in 21 of 36 games.\u00a0 The team has ranked among the nation\u2019s top 35 in field goal percentage defense in eight of the past 10 years, including this season\u2019s 37.9 percent which ranks third nationally.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Cardinals due to their 5-0 ATS mark on a neutral site, while the Lobos are 1-2 ATS in tourney games the last two-plus years.<\/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. 5 New Mexico Lobos vs. No. 4 Louisville Cardinals Saturday, 3\/17\/12, 9:40 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Louisville -1 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Louisville -1.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 127 Current Total:\u00a0 128 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker New Mexico has won six games in a row and captured a 75-68 win over the Long Beach […]<\/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":[6602,2497,556,2493,5762,755,6445],"class_list":["post-22340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-2012-ncaa-tournament","tag-big-east-conference","tag-louisville-cardinals","tag-new-mexico-lobos","tag-peyton-siva","tag-rick-pitino","tag-steve-alford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22340","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=22340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22341,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22340\/revisions\/22341"}],"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=22340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}