{"id":7904,"date":"2009-01-31T01:22:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T06:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=7904"},"modified":"2009-01-31T01:22:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T06:22:04","slug":"notredame-pittsburgh-prediction-odds-310109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball\/notredame-pittsburgh-prediction-odds-310109\/","title":{"rendered":"College Hoops Preview: Notre Dame vs. Pitt (Jan. 31)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big Boys on the Big East – Notre Dame vs. Pittsburgh<\/h2>\n

A day before the Super Bowl another Pittsburgh team will be in action when the #3 ranked Pitt Panthers hosts Notre Dame. Pittsburgh has been pretty much brilliant this season going 18 and 2 straight-up. Against the BetUS online wagering spread, their record of 8-6-1 isn\u2019t the best in the nation. Sports betting fans can\u2019t like how they have trouble scoring, but their defense is phenomenal. The Panthers did lose by 10 points in their last game to Villanova. So, they might drop in the rankings.<\/p>\n

Notre Dame is one of those Big East teams that just hangs around long enough to maybe make the NCAA Tournament. They are currently ranked #22 in the nation with a 12 and 7 straight-up record. Against the BetUS online betting spread, the Irish are 4 and 9. So college basketball betting fans really can\u2019t consider a wager on the Irish unless everything sets up for them.<\/p>\n

Game-day: 1\/31\/2009
\n Tip-off:<\/strong> 12:00 pm est.<\/p>\n

Here are my personal online betting NCAAB odds for this game.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Notre Dame Fighting Irish\t +13 \u00bd -110\t O 146 \u00bd -110
\nPittsburgh Panthers\t -13 \u00bd -110\t U 146 \u00bd -110<\/p>\n

Here are a few online basketball wagering trends that might help us find a good online bet in this game.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Notre Dame Fighting Irish are 0 and 5 against the spread in their last 5 games overall.
\nThe Notre Dame Fighting Irish is 5 and 1 against the spread in their last 6 games against the Panthers in Pittsburgh.
\nThe Pittsburgh Panthers are 6 and 1 against the spread in their last 7 games following an against the spread loss.
\nThe Pittsburgh Panthers are 15-7-1 against the spread in their last 23 games following a straight-up loss.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t like wasting readers\u2019 time by simply pasting in every single trend available. But let me tell basketball betting fans out there that there isn\u2019t a single trend that says Notre Dame gets close in this game.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t go against so many negative trends. It would really make the gods of gambling angry. So, I\u2019m consigned to the fact that Pittsburgh definitely wins this game straight-up.<\/p>\n

But by how many points?<\/p>\n

I believe that the BetUS Sportsbook odds makers will make the Pitt Panthers at least a -13 \u00bd point favorite against the spread. I\u2019m hoping that I\u2019m wrong. Giving up 13 \u00bd might be too many points since Pitt has lost two out of three straight-up.<\/p>\n

But Notre Dame just isn\u2019t the quality team that the Panthers are.<\/p>\n

Notre Dame vs. Pitt Prediction:<\/h3>\n

I\u2019m going to say that if the BetUS odds makers set a point spread at Pitt -12 \u00bd or lower, then I\u2019ll make the wager. I\u2019ll bet on Pittsburgh to cover the spread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several Notre Dame players have described their season thus far as the most difficult stretch of their careers, referring to this season\u2019s Big East schedule. Next up the Irish are traveling to face one of the top teams in the nation in No. 3 Pittsburgh…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1415],"tags":[8053,1597,3938,6529,4205,4631,6535,9747,9748,9749,6530,6531,6534,4445,8060,6537,9750,9751,6536],"class_list":["post-7904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-2009-college-basketball-picks","tag-basketball-handicapping","tag-basketball-odds","tag-bet-on-ncaa-basketball","tag-college-basketball-free-picks","tag-college-basketball-odds","tag-college-hoops-lines","tag-fighting-irish-panthers-odds","tag-fighting-irish-vs-panthers","tag-fighting-irish-vs-panthers-prediction","tag-free-college-basketball-picks","tag-free-ncaa-basketball-prediction","tag-ncaa-basketball-free-predictions","tag-ncaa-basketball-preview","tag-ncaa-hoops-prediction","tag-ncaab-preview","tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish-vs-pittsburgh-panthers","tag-notre-dame-vs-pitt-prediction","tag-wager-college-hoops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7904","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7908,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7904\/revisions\/7908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}