{"id":10793,"date":"2011-03-20T14:15:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T14:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/?p=10793"},"modified":"2011-03-20T14:15:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T14:15:55","slug":"ncaa-tournament-2011-picks-florida-state-vs-notre-dame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/ncaa-tournament-2011-picks-florida-state-vs-notre-dame\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Tournament 2011 Picks: Florida State vs. Notre Dame"},"content":{"rendered":"

OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper<\/a> Matt Rivers has a free pick Sunday is on Florida State (+5) to Notre Dame.<\/p>\n

Mike Bray is a great coach and the Fighting Irish have had a phenomenal season which not many people, including myself,\u00a0saw coming. Ben Hansbrough\u00a0has been\u00a0incredible leading the way\u00a0as the boys from Notre Dame are very good and after a full season of a sample size are not a fluke. But with that said I am still not all in on the boys from South Bend and today is a difficult matchup and one that can completely take the Irish out of their comfort zone and overall game.<\/p>\n

Florida State certainly is offensively challenged at times and have played a lot of games in the 50\u2019s. They are not nearly as explosive as ND but the one thing that the Seminoles have always been able to do is clamp down and absolutely frustrate their opponents\u00a0taking them out of their rhythm and there is no better rhythm team in college hoops today than today\u2019s opponent. If Hansbrough and Abromaitas get those open looks from three then this game and potential cover may not come through. The key is for the \u2018Noles to man up as they usually do and just did holding Texas A&M to 50 total points. I still do not really see Notre Dame as a great overall team and they without a doubt could fall victim to the swarming defense today or at least not bomb away as they are sometimes able to.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not expecting miracles from Chris Singleton who didn\u2019t play major minutes against the Aggies but he is healthy enough to get on the court and Florida State with their defense is good enough to get the job done.<\/p>\n

Top expert pick<\/a> on this game: Matt Rivers Florida State.<\/p>\n

For more information: <\/strong>It\u2019s almost getting too easy! Things have really been clicking of late and I see no reason at all why anything is going to stop. 400,000* Florida came through and 200,000* Temple plus 5 \u00bd fell in double overtime. Horrific horse dung luck on the Owls but even with that it\u2019s still another winning day and right at 2.7 million* of profit over the past two weeks. Two more plays and two more winners today; 400,000* Purdue-VCU and a 300,000* Marquette-Syracuse. If you\u2019re not going to follow the hottest capper there is than what else can I say? Get Rivers picks<\/a> for March Madness 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has a free pick Sunday is on Florida State (+5) to Notre Dame. Mike Bray is a great coach and the Fighting Irish have had a phenomenal season which not many people, including myself,\u00a0saw coming. Ben Hansbrough\u00a0has been\u00a0incredible leading the way\u00a0as the boys from Notre Dame are very good … Continue reading NCAA Tournament 2011 Picks: Florida State vs. Notre Dame<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_betting_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10795,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793\/revisions\/10795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}