{"id":27272,"date":"2013-01-14T11:59:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T16:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27272"},"modified":"2013-01-14T11:59:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T16:59:53","slug":"ncaa-basketball-picks-louisville-cardinals-vs-connecticut-huskies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-picks-louisville-cardinals-vs-connecticut-huskies-27272\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Picks: Louisville Cardinals vs. Connecticut Huskies"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 3 Louisville Cardinals at Connecticut Huskies
\nMonday, 1\/14\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Louisville -6.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Louisville -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 132
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 132.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Louisville Cardinals will prove to be too much for the Connecticut Huskies Monday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Louisville will put its 10-game win streak on the line as one of two games featured on ESPN\u2019s Big Monday, as it comes off an impressive 64-38 victory over the South Florida Bulls as 18.5-point home favorites Saturday, while going UNDER the posted total of 124.\u00a0 The Cardinals have won back-to-back trips to Connecticut, but those affairs were decided by a combined three points.\u00a0 The school ranks second nationally with a plus-7.8 turnover margin\u2014scoring 409 of their 1,234 points off turnovers.\u00a0 Louisville is 3-0 ATS on the road this season, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NCAA basketball picks.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals are shooting 47.6 percent from the floor over their last eight games, as they come in averaging 77.1 points per game.\u00a0 Louisville has the most road victories in Big East Conference games over the last six years, as it has a great chance of picking up another one in this spot.\u00a0 Shooting guard Russ Smith is scoring a team-high 18.7 points per game, while back-court mate Peyton Siva checks in at 11.9.<\/p>\n

Connecticut has won six of its last seven games, as it comes off a thrilling 65-58 victory over the Notre Dame Fighting Irish as 8.5-point road underdogs, while going UNDER the posted total of 135.\u00a0 \u201cThey\u2019ve got arguably one of the best backcourts in the nation,\u201d stated Cardinals coach Rick Pitino about Monday\u2019s opponent.\u00a0 \u201cThey are a terrific team.\u201d\u00a0 In the last five games, the Huskies backcourt of Shabazz Napier and Ryan Boatright have combined to average 37.0 points and 10.0 assists per game.\u00a0 Connecticut is 15-8 ATS as an underdog since 2010, with the UNDER going 12-11 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Huskies have compiled an impressive 229-83 record in regular season action at the XL Center, which includes a perfect 4-0 mark this season.\u00a0 Connecticut leads the Big East in averaging 80.0 points per game during conference play, while outscoring foes by 7.3 points per game.\u00a0 Through Saturday\u2019s action, the program was ranked 16th in the nation in The RPI Report, with Louisville occupying the eighth spot.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Cardinals due to their 22-8 ATS mark following a SU win, while the Huskies are 1-5 ATS in the last six meetings in this series.<\/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 Connecticut Huskies Monday, 1\/14\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Louisville -6.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Louisville -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 132 Current Total:\u00a0 132.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Louisville will put its 10-game win streak on the line as one of two games featured on ESPN\u2019s Big Monday, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[2497,2499,556,5762,7220,5668,6002,6412],"class_list":["post-27272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-east-conference","tag-connecticut-huskies","tag-louisville-cardinals","tag-peyton-siva","tag-russ-smith","tag-ryan-boatright","tag-shabazz-napier","tag-xl-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27272","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=27272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27273,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27272\/revisions\/27273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}