{"id":27615,"date":"2013-02-03T09:40:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T14:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27615"},"modified":"2013-02-03T09:40:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T14:40:42","slug":"ncaa-basketball-picks-marquette-golden-eagles-vs-louisville-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-picks-marquette-golden-eagles-vs-louisville-cardinals-27615\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Picks: Marquette Golden Eagles vs. Louisville Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 25 Marquette Golden Eagles at No. 12 Louisville Cardinals
\nSunday, 2\/3\/13, 2:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Louisville -10.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Louisville -10.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 131.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 132.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Louisville Cardinals generate 32 percent of their scoring off turnovers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Marquette has won back-to-back home games since suffering its last defeat, which includes a 63-50 victory over the South Florida Bulls as 11-point home favorites last Monday, while going UNDER the posted total of 125.\u00a0 The Golden Eagles were led by junior guard Vander Blue\u2019s career-high 30 points, which was the first time a player in the program reached that number in a victory since 2006.\u00a0 Marquette is 16-5 ATS as an underdog the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 18-3 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Golden Eagles are always dangerous when getting points on the college basketball odds page, but they\u2019ve gone 26-42 all-time against the Cardinals, including an 84-71 setback as 3.5-point favorites in the last meetings on March 8 of last year.\u00a0 Marquette is definitely one of the deeper teams in the Big East Conference, as its bench accounts for 43.8 percent of the team\u2019s total offensive production.\u00a0 A total of 10 players are averaging at least 10.9 minutes per game.<\/p>\n

Louisville opens the month of February with its second straight home game, as it snapped a three-game losing streak in picking up a 64-61 victory over the Pittsburgh Panthers as six-point favorites last time out.\u00a0 The Cardinals rank second nationally in turnover margin, which has created 32 percent of their points scored during the 2012-13 NCAA basketball campaign.\u00a0 Louisville is 4-2 ATS as a home favorite of 9.5 to 12 points over the last two-plus seasons, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your college basketball expert picks on Super Bowl Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals will be wearing their special \u201cWhite Out\u201d uniforms in this affair, while head coach Rick Pitino normally dons a white suit for the event.\u00a0 Louisville has endured some shooting woes over the last seven games\u2014hitting on just 41.6 percent of its shots and averaging 65.3 points per game during that stretch.\u00a0 The program still ranks sixth in the country with a scoring margin of 16.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Cardinals due to their 6-1 ATS mark when playing on Sunday.<\/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. 25 Marquette Golden Eagles at No. 12 Louisville Cardinals Sunday, 2\/3\/13, 2:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Louisville -10.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Louisville -10.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 131.5 Current Total:\u00a0 132.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Marquette has won back-to-back home games since suffering its last defeat, which includes a 63-50 victory over the […]<\/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":[2497,556,3943,755,7360],"class_list":["post-27615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-east-conference","tag-louisville-cardinals","tag-marquette-golden-eagles","tag-rick-pitino","tag-vander-blue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27615","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=27615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27616,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27615\/revisions\/27616"}],"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=27615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}