Two top-ranked teams meet in a Big East semifinal when the No. 13 Villanova Wildcats take on the No. 5 Louisville Cardinals at Madison Square Garden (7 pm ET, ESPN).<\/p>\n
betED.com NCAA Basketball odds<\/strong><\/a> have the Cardinals as 4.5-point, -210 moneyline favorites and the over\/under total at 139.5.<\/p>\n Even though they\u2019re the underdog, the Wildcats are lucky to be facing the Cardinals in the semifinal after nearly blowing a 16-point lead in a Big East quarterfinal against Marquette on Thursday.<\/p>\n Villanova edged Marquette 76-75 but failed to cover the 2.5-point spread. The score went over the total of 150. It was a different story for Louisville, which dominated from start-to-finish as they blew out Providence 73-55 in their quarterfinal matchup on Thursday. Louisville had little trouble covering the 10.5-point spread, and the 128 points went under the total of 148.<\/p>\n The Wildcats will be in tough tonight, as they are just 1-4 ATS in their past five against the Cardinals.<\/p>\n A late night semifinal has the USC Trojans facing their crosstown rival, the No. 14 UCLA Bruins, in a Pac-10 Tournament matchup at the Staples Center in Los Angeles (11:30 pm ET, FSN).<\/p>\n The Bruins are 6-point, -280 moneyline favorites at betED.com and the total is 133.5.<\/p>\n Last night, USC beat California 79-75 in the Pac-10 Tournament quarterfinals. The Trojans cashed as 2-point underdogs and the game played over the 137.5-point total.<\/p>\n UCLA got past Washington State 64-53 in their quarterfinal on Thursday night. The Bruins covered as 8.5-point favorites and the score went under the 122-point total.<\/p>\n USC is 1-6 SU in its past seven against UCLA.<\/p>\n NCAA Basketball conference tournaments are moving into the semifinals Friday and betED.com has full-game and first-half lines available for all the matchups…<\/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":[159,2779,1376,1380,10871,10655,11612,11614,11613,11616,11615],"class_list":["post-9416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-beted","tag-beted-sports-book","tag-beted-sportsbook","tag-betedcom","tag-betedcom-sports-book","tag-big-east-gambling","tag-big-east-tournament-previews","tag-pac-10-gambling","tag-pac-10-tournament-previews","tag-ucla-vs-usc","tag-villanova-vs-louisville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9416","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=9416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9418,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9416\/revisions\/9418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/banners.beted.com\/images\/banners\/NCAAB\/NCAABGEN1M350X150.gif\")
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