{"id":27177,"date":"2013-01-08T20:16:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T01:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27177"},"modified":"2013-01-08T20:16:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T01:16:17","slug":"ncaa-basketball-picks-louisville-cardinals-vs-seton-hall-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-picks-louisville-cardinals-vs-seton-hall-pirates-27177\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Picks: Louisville Cardinals vs. Seton Hall Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 3 Louisville Cardinals at Seton Hall Pirates
\nWednesday, 1\/9\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Louisville -11
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Louisville -11
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 138
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 138
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Louisville Cardinals have won more games on the road in Big East play than any other team in the conference over the last six seasons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Louisville returns to the floor after a week off from competition, as it picked up its eighth consecutive victory with an 80-62 win over the Providence Friars as 18.5-point home favorites last Wednesday, while going OVER the posted total of 133.\u00a0 \u201cOnce our defense catches up to our offense, we have a chance to be a really special team,\u201d stated Cardinals head coach Rick Pitino.\u00a0 The Cardinals are second nationally in turnover margin, which has led directly to 371 of their 1,097 points on the season, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NCAA basketball picks Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals are expected to be without sophomore forward Chane Behanan for 10 days, as he suffered a left high ankle sprain in practice.\u00a0 He is averaging 11.4 points and 7.1 rebounds on the season.\u00a0 Louisville has shot 50.1 percent from the field over its last six games, including 39.6 percent from three-point range.\u00a0 The team\u2019s current scoring average of 78.2 is its highest in seven years.\u00a0 The program has the most road victories in the Big East Conference over the last six years, including six wins over ranked opponents.<\/p>\n

Seton Hall had its seven-game win streak snapped in a 93-74 setback to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish as 10-point road underdogs Saturday, while going OVER the posted total of 132.5.\u00a0 \u201cIt becomes tough to play in this league with just one power forward and one center,\u201d commented Pirates head coach Kevin Willard.\u00a0 The Pirates have been able to strike against opponents from beyond the arc, as they lead all Big East teams with 133 makes from 3-point range.\u00a0 Seton Hall is 19-10 ATS at home over the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 17-10 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Pirates are led on the offensive end by junior forward Fuquan Edwin, who scored 21 points on 9-of-16 shooting against the Fighting Irish, while averaging 17.9 points per game on the season.\u00a0 Seton Hall is 5-11 all-time in this series, losing the last three meetings, including a 60-51 setback as one-point home underdogs last year.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Cardinals due to their 8-2 ATS mark on the road, while the Pirates are 1-4 ATS after a spread loss.<\/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. 3 Louisville Cardinals at Seton Hall Pirates Wednesday, 1\/9\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Louisville -11 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Louisville -11 Opening Total:\u00a0 138 Current Total:\u00a0 138 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Louisville returns to the floor after a week off from competition, as it picked up its eighth consecutive victory with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":26024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[2497,5788,7300,7299,556,755,4300],"class_list":["post-27177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-east-conference","tag-chane-behanan","tag-fuquan-edwin","tag-kevin-willard","tag-louisville-cardinals","tag-rick-pitino","tag-seton-hall-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27177","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=27177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27178,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27177\/revisions\/27178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}