Louisville (9-0) is one of the few undefeated teams left in the nation and while they are not a high scoring team they have a great defense and rank 18th in the nation in rebounds per game. <\/p>\n
Time\/Date: 4 PM EST Saturday, December 17, 2011
\nNCAA Odds From: BetOnline.com
\nMoneyline: OFF
\nSpread (ATS): OFF
\nOver\/Under: OFF<\/p>\n
Memphis Tigers vs. Louisville Cardinals Preview<\/strong><\/p>\n Memphis (5-3) is coming off a loss and they have lost both games against teams that have a legit chance to do some noise in the Big Dance.<\/p>\n In their last games Memphis was upset losing to Murray State 76-72 and Louisville beat Fairleigh Dickenson 80-58.<\/p>\n This season Louisville is 4-2 ATS with an O\/U record of 1-5 and Memphis is 3-4 ATS with an O\/U record of 5-1-1.<\/p>\n Memphis is a high scoring team ranking 15th in the nation in points per game led by Will Barton (20.4 ppg), who has scored 27 points in each of his last 2 games, and Joe Jackson (13.4 ppg). The Cardinals have a great D and if they can shut down these 2 guys they should easily win this game.<\/p>\n Barton is also the leading rebounder for the Tigers, but he is only a 6’6″ G and will need help in this game on the glass.<\/p>\n Louisville’s Gorgui Dieng (9 ppg 9 rpg) and Chane Behanan (9.2 ppg 8.1 rpg) are each solid on the boards and can score inside, which is not good facing a Memphis squad that only ranks 206th in the nation in rebounds per game. [soliloquy id=”82219″]<\/p>\n G\/F Kyle Kuric (12.7 ppg) and G Chris Smith (10.6 ppg) are the 2 leading scorers for the Cardinals, but Louisville may want to get the ball down low to their frontcourt players since the Tigers do not have much size.<\/p>\n Memphis committed 15 turnovers in the loss to Murray State and the Tigers will have to hold onto the rock in this game facing a solid defense of Louisville. The Tigers also allowed Murray State to hit on 45% of their 3-point bombs and even though the really need to worry about the big men of the Cardinals they still cannot allow Louisville to have many open looks from deep.<\/p>\n In some betting trends for this non-conference match up Memphis is 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games facing a team with a winning record, 0-4 ATS in their last 4 games facing teams from the Big East, and they have an Over record of 7-1-1 in their last 9 games.<\/p>\n Louisville is 0-4 ATS in their last 4 games against teams with a winning % above 60%, 11-4 ATS in their last 15 games overall, and they have an Under record of 7-1 in their last 8 non-conference games.<\/p>\n Memphis has covered the spread in their last 5 games facing Louisville.<\/p>\n Jason’s Pick:<\/strong> Both of these teams are solid, but with the Cardinals being a much better team on the boards the will win this game by dominating the glass. Take Louisville to win this game. The Cardinals will win this game with their D and keep Memphis’ offense in check winning by a score of around 77-70<\/p>\n Memphis Tigers vs. Louisville Cardinals College hoops Gambling. Louisville is 0-4 ATS in their last 4 games against teams with a winning % above 60%, 11-4 ATS in their last 15 games overall, and they have an Under record of 7-1 in their last 8 non-conference games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":25655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncaa-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46599"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46606,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46599\/revisions\/46606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}VIEW OUR TOP CAPPERS PICKS FOR ALL SPORTS – EVERY SINGLE DAY 24\/7 \u2014\u2013><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"