{"id":28112,"date":"2013-03-13T11:19:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T16:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28112"},"modified":"2013-03-13T11:19:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T16:19:19","slug":"college-basketball-picks-rutgers-scarlet-knights-vs-notre-dame-fighting-irish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-rutgers-scarlet-knights-vs-notre-dame-fighting-irish-28112\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Rutgers Scarlet Knights vs. Notre Dame Fighting Irish"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rutgers Scarlet Knights vs. No. 24 Notre Dame Fighting Irish
\nWednesday, 3\/13\/13, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Notre Dame -7.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Notre Dame -7.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 126
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 125
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Notre Dame Fighting Irish are 4-0 ATS after a SU loss<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rutgers has covered the spread and gone UNDER the total in its last four games, as it comes off a 76-57 victory over the DePaul Blue Demons as three-point neutral-site favorites Tuesday night.\u00a0 The Scarlet Knights shot a season-high 61.1 percent in that affair, which was a bit of a surprise after failing to eclipse 50 percent in their previous 16 games.\u00a0 The team will now try to win multiple games in the Big East Championship for just the second time since joining the conference in 1995-96.\u00a0 Rutgers is 7-10 ATS versus winning teams this season, which is important to consider when making your college basketball picks against the spread.<\/p>\n

The Scarlet Knights were able to win last night without a great performance from leading scorer Eli Carter, who was limited to a season-low four points.\u00a0 He had a team-high 20 on 9-of-15 shooting in a 69-66 loss to Notre Dame as 11.5-point road underdogs Jan. 19.\u00a0 The program has compiled a 7-13 overall record in this event, which includes two losses to the Fighting Irish.<\/p>\n

Notre Dame alternated wins and losses over its last four games to finish out its regular season schedule, as it looks to bounce back from a 73-57 setback to the Louisville Cardinals as 11-point road underdogs last Saturday.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve never gotten to Saturday night,\u201d commented Fighting Irish coach Mike Brey.\u00a0 The Fighting Irish have won at least one game in each of the last four seasons in this event, while going 8-12 overall under Brey\u2019s direction.\u00a0 Notre Dame is 4-8 ATS in March the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 7-4 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Fighting Irish have three probable starters averaging in double figures, with senior forward Jack Cooley leading the way in scoring 13.6 points and grabbing 10.6 rebounds per game.\u00a0 Notre Dame\u2019s current senior class needs two more victories to become the program\u2019s all-time winningest class, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college basketball betting lines.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Fighting Irish due to their 4-0 ATS mark following a SU loss, while the Scarlet Knights are 8-9 ATS off a win against a conference rival.<\/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":"

Rutgers Scarlet Knights vs. No. 24 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Wednesday, 3\/13\/13, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Notre Dame -7.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Notre Dame -7.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 126 Current Total:\u00a0 125 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Rutgers has covered the spread and gone UNDER the total in its last four games, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":26023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[2497,7306,6458,3902,1311,2500],"class_list":["post-28112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-east-conference","tag-eli-carter","tag-jack-cooley","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish","tag-rutgers-scarlet-knights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28112","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=28112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28114,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28112\/revisions\/28114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}