{"id":28127,"date":"2013-03-14T14:40:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T19:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28127"},"modified":"2013-03-14T14:40:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T19:40:48","slug":"ncaa-basketball-picks-notre-dame-fighting-irish-vs-marquette-golden-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-picks-notre-dame-fighting-irish-vs-marquette-golden-eagles-28127\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Picks: Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. Marquette Golden Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 24 Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. No. 12 Marquette Golden Eagles
\nThursday, 3\/14\/13, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Marquette -2
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Marquette -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 126.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 125.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Marquette Golden Eagles are 8-7 all-time in the Big East Championship<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Notre Dame has alternated wins and losses over its last five games, as it comes off a 69-61 victory over the Rutgers Scarlet Knights as 7.5-point neutral-site favorites Wednesday night, while going OVER the posted total of 122.5.\u00a0 \u201cWe expected to be here a while, no question,\u201d commented Fighting Irish coach Mike Brey.\u00a0 The team improved to 9-12 when playing in the Big East Championship under his direction, as it attempts to reach the semifinals for a fourth consecutive season.\u00a0 Notre Dame is 3-1 SUATS on a neutral floor this year, which is important to consider when making your college basketball picks against the spread Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The Fighting Irish are 5-4 in the quarterfinal round of the league tournament, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college basketball odds page.\u00a0 Notre Dame went 10-of-17 from three-point range in its latest win, which wasn\u2019t surprising due to leading the conference in shooting 37.6 percent from beyond the arc this season.\u00a0 With the win, the program\u2019s current senior class moved into a tied as the all-time winningest in school history.<\/p>\n

Marquette won its last four games of the regular season, including a 69-67 overtime victory over the St. John\u2019s Red Storm as seven-point road favorites last Saturday, while going OVER the total for the third time in four contests.\u00a0 The Golden Eagles have reached the semifinals twice in this event since joining the Big East in 2005.\u00a0 The program has tallied 28 conference victories the past two seasons, which happens to be the most of any school within the league.\u00a0 Marquette is 8-9 ATS as a favorite this season, with the OVER going 8-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Golden Eagles are 8-7 all-time in their previous seven appearances in the event, as they\u2019ve managed to claim at least one win every year except 2006.\u00a0 Marquette is extremely deep, with a total of nine players averaging at least 13.3 minutes per game, as the bench contributes 30.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Golden Eagles due to their 11-7 ATS mark in tournament games, while the Fighting Irish are 9-10 ATS versus teams with a winning record.<\/p>\n

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No. 24 Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. No. 12 Marquette Golden Eagles Thursday, 3\/14\/13, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Marquette -2 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Marquette -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 126.5 Current Total:\u00a0 125.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Notre Dame has alternated wins and losses over its last five games, as it comes off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[2497,3943,5806,1311],"class_list":["post-28127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-east-conference","tag-marquette-golden-eagles","tag-mike-brey","tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28127","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=28127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28128,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28127\/revisions\/28128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}