{"id":3503,"date":"2009-02-12T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/louisville-notre-dame-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-02-12T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T18:23:00","slug":"louisville-notre-dame-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/louisville-notre-dame-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisville-Notre Dame Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Louisville Cardinals and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Joyce<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName>Center<\/st1:PlaceName><\/st1:place>. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Oddsmakers currently have the Cardinals listed as 4-point favorites versus the Fighting Irish, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:City><st1:place>Louisville<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> defeated St. John&#8217;s 60-47 as an 11-point underdog on Sunday. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (132). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:PersonName><?xml:namespace prefix = st2 ns = \"urn:schemas:contacts\" \/><st2:GivenName>Jerry<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Smith<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> netted a game-high 21 points for <st1:City><st1:place>Louisville<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> and <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Earl<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Clark<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> added 12 points and eight rebounds in the win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Tory Jackson led Notre Dame with 17 points off the bench in a 89-63 loss to UCLA on Saturday afternoon. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Irish did not cover the 11.5-point spread, while the final score played OVER the day&#8217;s posted total of 149. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/>Notre Dame has lost 7 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Louisville<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 18-4 SU, 13-9 ATS <br \/>Notre Dame: 12-10 SU, 5-12 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Louisville most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 8-2<br \/>Before playing DePaul are 4-6<br \/>After playing St. John&#8217;s are 3-2<br \/>After a win are 8-2<\/p>\n<p>Notre Dame most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing South Florida are 3-1<br \/>After playing UCLA are 3-0<br \/>After a loss are 4-6<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Louisville is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games on the road<br \/>Louisville is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games on the road<br \/>Louisville is 10-1 SU in its last 11 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Louisville&#8217;s last 5 games <br \/>Notre Dame is 21-4 SU in its last 25 games at home<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 6 of Notre Dame&#8217;s last 8 games <br \/>Notre Dame is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>Notre Dame is 0-5 ATS in its last 5 games <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Louisville<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to DePaul, Sunday, February 15<br \/>Notre Dame home to <st1:place>South Florida<\/st1:place>, Sunday, February 15<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Louisville Cardinals and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Joyce Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Cardinals listed as 4-point favorites versus the Fighting Irish, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. Louisville defeated St. John&#8217;s 60-47 as an 11-point underdog &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/louisville-notre-dame-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Louisville-Notre Dame Odds Preview<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503","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=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}