{"id":31922,"date":"2013-12-20T18:22:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T23:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31922"},"modified":"2013-12-20T18:22:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T23:22:47","slug":"college-basketball-picks-notre-dame-fighting-irish-vs-ohio-state-buckeyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-picks-notre-dame-fighting-irish-vs-ohio-state-buckeyes-31922\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Picks: Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. Ohio State Buckeyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. Ohio State Buckeyes
\nSaturday, 12\/21\/13, 7:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Ohio State -7.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Ohio State -7.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Ohio State Buckeyes are 4-0 ATS in their L4 games versus teams with a winning record<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Notre Dame returns to the court following a week off for final exams, as it comes off a 79-72 victory over the Indiana Hoosiers as 3.5-point neutral-site underdogs, while going OVER the betting total for the first time in four opportunities.\u00a0 The Fighting Irish are 7-11 SU against Big Ten Conference opponents under head coach Mike Brey, which is important to consider when making your college basketball betting picks.\u00a0 The team has four probable starters averaging in double figures, with senior guard Jerian Grant leading the way at 19.1 points a contest.\u00a0 Notre Dame is 5-2 ATS in its last seven neutral site affairs.<\/p>\n

The Fighting Irish own a 58-48 SU all-time record when playing inside Madison Square Garden, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the NCAA basketball lines page.\u00a0 Backcourt mates Eric Atkins and Grant both have reached the 1,000-point career mark in scoring this season, while both have played an instrumental part in the program possessing the country\u2019s best assist-to-turnover ratio.\u00a0 The team also ranks ninth nationally in knocking down 77.4 percent of its free throw attempts.<\/p>\n

Ohio State has won its first 11 games of the 2013-14 campaign, including a 76-64 victory over Delaware last time out.\u00a0 The Buckeyes are second in NCAA basketball statistics in allowing opponents to shoot just 24.7 percent from beyond the arc, while sitting behind just two teams in allowing 55.5 points per game.\u00a0 Offensively, the team has shot 52 percent or better from the field in five of its last six games, with LaQuinton Ross leading the way in averaging 17.4 points over that span.\u00a0 Ohio State is 4-0 ATS in its last four games versus teams with a winning record.<\/p>\n

The Buckeyes own a 7-4 all-time advantage over the Fighting Irish, including wins in four of the last five meetings.\u00a0 Ohio State has one of the best point guards in the country in Aaron Craft, who is the school\u2019s all-time leader in assists and steals.\u00a0 Craft and Ross were both selected to the John R. Wooden Award Preseason Top 50 list on Nov. 12.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Buckeyes due to the Fighting Irish being 3-7-1 ATS in their last 11 non-conference affairs.<\/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":"

Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. Ohio State Buckeyes Saturday, 12\/21\/13, 7:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Ohio State -7.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Ohio State -7.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Notre Dame returns to the court following a week off for final exams, as it comes off a 79-72 victory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":25983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[7134,6160,7897,3902,5806,1311,463],"class_list":["post-31922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-aaron-craft","tag-eric-atkins","tag-laquinton-ross","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-mike-brey","tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish","tag-ohio-state-buckeyes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31922","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=31922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31923,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31922\/revisions\/31923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}