{"id":32194,"date":"2013-12-31T07:38:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T12:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=32194"},"modified":"2013-12-31T07:38:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T12:38:48","slug":"college-basketball-predictions-louisville-cardinals-vs-ucf-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-predictions-louisville-cardinals-vs-ucf-knights-32194\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Predictions: Louisville Cardinals vs. UCF Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Louisville Cardinals vs. UCF Knights
\nTuesday, 12\/31\/13, 5:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread: Louisville -12.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Louisville -12.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Louisville Cardinals will look to bounce back from their second loss of the season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Louisville suffered its second loss of the 2013-14 campaign, as it looks to bounce back from a 73-66 defeat to the Kentucky Wildcats as 1.5-point road favorites last Saturday, while going UNDER the betting total for the first time in five contests.\u00a0 The Cardinals will be playing their first game in the newly formed American Athletic Conference, which is important to consider when making your college basketball predictions.\u00a0 The team has won its first conference road game in each of the last six seasons.\u00a0 Louisville is 3-0 SUATS as road favorites of 12.5 or more points since the start of the 2011-12 campaign.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals lead the nation in turnover margin\u2014generating an average of 22.3 points per game off opponents\u2019 miscues.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is led by the play of Russ Smith and Chris Jones, as the duo combines to average 30.7 points per game.\u00a0 Over its first 13 games of the season, Louisville has produced 33 runs of 8-0 or better, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college basketball odds page.<\/p>\n

UCF has won five games in a row, but hasn\u2019t played since Dec. 22.\u00a0 The Knights have knocked down 11-plus three-point shots in each of their last four contests, as they prepare to host a top-25 opponent for just the fourth time in school history.\u00a0 The program has compiled a dismal 3-25 SU all-time record against ranked opponents.\u00a0 During the Donnie Jones era on campus, the team has won 22 of 23 home games in the month of December.\u00a0 UCF is 9-17 SU and 13-13 ATS as an underdog the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Knights have four probable starters averaging double figures, with senior guard Calvin Newell leading the way at 14.8 points a contest.\u00a0 He paces the conference in averaging 2.4 steals per game, while being one of four players that have connected on 14 or more shots from beyond the arc.\u00a0 During its current winning streak, UCF has averaged 19.0 assists.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total, as the OVER is 4-1-1 in the Knights\u2019 last six home games.<\/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":"

Louisville Cardinals vs. UCF Knights Tuesday, 12\/31\/13, 5:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread: Louisville -12.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Louisville -12.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Louisville suffered its second loss of the 2013-14 campaign, as it looks to bounce back from a 73-66 defeat to the Kentucky Wildcats as 1.5-point […]<\/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":[7543,7966,7965,556,7220,3261],"class_list":["post-32194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-american-athletic-conference","tag-calvin-newell","tag-donnie-jones","tag-louisville-cardinals","tag-russ-smith","tag-ucf-knights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32194","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=32194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32197,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32194\/revisions\/32197"}],"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=32194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}