{"id":32420,"date":"2014-01-09T09:33:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T14:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=32420"},"modified":"2014-01-09T09:33:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T14:33:36","slug":"ncaa-basketball-picks-memphis-tigers-vs-louisville-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-picks-memphis-tigers-vs-louisville-cardinals-32420\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Picks: Memphis Tigers vs. Louisville Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Memphis Tigers vs. Louisville Cardinals
\nThursday, 1\/9\/14, 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Louisville -10
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Louisville -9.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The Louisville Cardinals are led offensively by G Russ Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Memphis had its three-game winning streak snapped last time out, as it suffered a 69-53 defeat to the Cincinnati Bearcats as five-point home favorites, while going UNDER the betting total for the third time in four contests.\u00a0 The Tigers are fifth nationally in averaging 10.2 steals per game, while the Cardinals are just two spots behind in that statistical category, which is important to consider when making your NCAA basketball picks.\u00a0 Offensively, the team has three players averaging in double figures, with senior guard Joe Jackson leading the way at 15.0 points a contest.\u00a0 Memphis is 17-6 SU and 13-9 ATS at home the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The average margin in the last nine encounters with both teams ranked in this series is 6.3 points, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the NCAA basketball odds page.\u00a0 Memphis has also compiled a dominating 32-4 SU record after a loss under head coach Josh Pastner\u2014with the program last recording back-to-back losses in 2011-12.<\/p>\n

Louisville has won back-to-back games since suffering a seven-point loss on the road to Kentucky, as it gets set to play at the KFC Yum! Center for the first time in 23 days.\u00a0 The Cardinals have won all nine of their home games by 16 or more points, while they\u2019ve covered the number in six of their last eight affairs at this venue when favored by 9.5 to 12 points the last two-plus seasons.\u00a0 The team has won its first conference home game in four of the past five years.\u00a0 Louisville is 5-6 SU and 4-7 ATS after playing three consecutive road games in its last 11 opportunities.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals have four probable starters averaging in double figures, with senior guard Russ Smith leading the way at 17.7 points a contest.\u00a0 Louisville ranks second nationally in turnover margin, as it has only one more turnover than steals on the season.\u00a0 Over its first 15 games, the squad has produced 36 runs of 8-0 or better.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Tigers due to the road team being 5-0-1 ATS in the last six meetings in this series.<\/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":"

Memphis Tigers vs. Louisville Cardinals Thursday, 1\/9\/14, 7:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Louisville -10 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Louisville -9.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Memphis had its three-game winning streak snapped last time out, as it suffered a 69-53 defeat to the Cincinnati Bearcats as five-point home favorites, while […]<\/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":[7184,4064,5939,556,33,7220],"class_list":["post-32420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-joe-jackson","tag-josh-pastner","tag-kfc-yum-center","tag-louisville-cardinals","tag-memphis-tigers","tag-russ-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32420","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=32420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32422,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32420\/revisions\/32422"}],"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=32420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}