{"id":28136,"date":"2013-03-15T11:18:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T16:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28136"},"modified":"2013-03-15T11:18:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T16:18:24","slug":"big-east-tournament-preview-notre-dame-fighting-irish-vs-louisville-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/big-east-tournament-preview-notre-dame-fighting-irish-vs-louisville-cardinals-28136\/","title":{"rendered":"Big East Tournament Preview: Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. Louisville Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 24 Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. No. 4 Louisville Cardinals
\nFriday, 3\/15\/13, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Louisville -8
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Louisville -8
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Louisville Cardinals have won eight games in a row<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Notre Dame has reached the semifinals of the Big East Tournament by beating the Marquette Golden Eagles and Rutgers Scarlet Knights, with both games going OVER the total.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to be playing in our fourth straight semifinal,\u201d commented Fighting Irish coach Mike Brey.\u00a0 The Fighting Irish are 10-12 under his direction in this event, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college basketball odds page.\u00a0 Notre Dame is 10-10 ATS versus conference opponents this season, with the UNDER going 8-6 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Fighting Irish are expecting another close game against the Cardinals as five of the last seven meetings have gone to overtime.\u00a0 Notre Dame has dropped both Big East tournament meetings in its history, including a 64-50 setback in last year\u2019s semifinals.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is dangerous from beyond the arc, as it entered Wednesday night as the top 3-point shooting roster in the conference.<\/p>\n

Louisville has won eight consecutive games, including a 74-55 victory over the Villanova Wildcats Thursday night, while going OVER the posted total of 125.5.\u00a0 The Cardinals have reached the semifinals in this event for the fourth time in five years, while they\u2019ve won 10 of their last 12 games overall in the tournament.\u00a0 Over its current winning streak, the program has limited opponents to 36.4 percent shooting from the field and 54.2 points per game.\u00a0 Louisville is 16-3 ATS in March the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 14-6 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals have scored 728 of their 2,354 points off turnovers this year, including 27 against the Wildcats last time out.\u00a0 Louisville is led offensively by the play of guard Russ Smith, who finished with 28 points versus Villanova, which was his third-highest scoring total of his career.\u00a0 Point guard Peyton Siva saves his best performances for Madison Square Garden, which makes this team dangerous and worth a look as one of your college basketball picks against the spread Friday night.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Cardinals due to their 7-1 ATS mark in conference tournament games, while the Fighting Irish are 0-2 ATS in the semifinal round.<\/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

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No. 24 Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. No. 4 Louisville Cardinals Friday, 3\/15\/13, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Louisville -8 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Louisville -8 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Notre Dame has reached the semifinals of the Big East Tournament by beating the Marquette Golden Eagles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[2497,6510,556,3902,1311,7220],"class_list":["post-28136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-east-conference","tag-big-east-tournament","tag-louisville-cardinals","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish","tag-russ-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28136","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=28136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28137,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28136\/revisions\/28137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}