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03/18/2010 - New Orleans, LA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Thanks to a late run down the stretch, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish earned the six seed in the South Region and will open the NCAA Tournament with a first round meeting against the 11th-seeded Old Dominion Monarchs at the New Orleans Arena this afternoon.
The Monarchs will be making their 10th appearance in the NCAA Tournament, but in the previous nine showings, the team has gone just 2-9. This will be the third NCAA Tournament for ODU since 2005, and the first since 2007 when the team was bounced from the event in the first round by Butler. This season the Monarchs collected an impressive 26 victory and earned an automatic bid with a 60-53 victory over William & Mary to earn the Colonial Athletic Association tournament title.
The Fighting Irish were bounced from the Big East Tournament with a loss to West Virginia (53-51) in the semifinal round, but the team racked up six straight victories beforehand to earn a spot in the NCAA Tournament. Notre Dame was just 10-8 in Big East play, but the team finished with 23 overall victories, landing the squad in the Big Dance for the sixth time in the last 10 seasons. This is the 30th appearance for Notre Dame in this event, as the team is 30-33 in its previous 29 showings. In 2008, the Irish opened the tournament with a victory over George Mason, but followed that with a loss to Washington State.
This will be the second-ever meeting between the two schools on the hardwood. The only other matchup took place during the 1983-84 season, ands the Irish defeated ODU, 67-62, in the NIT.
The winner of this matchup will move into the second round where they will face either Baylor or Sam Houston State.
Defensive play has been the main reason for Old Dominion's success this season, as the Monarchs are limiting the opposition to just 57.1 ppg. Teams are shooting 40.1 percent from the floor, but behind the arc is where the Monarchs really step up their efforts, as the team is holding opponents to a woeful 30.0 percent clip from long range. At the other end of the floor the team has not enjoyed similar success. In fact, Old Dominion comes into this tournament with just one player averaging double figures, and that is Gerald Lee, who is posting 14.6 ppg, to go along with 4.9 rpg. Frank Hassell has been the second best option on the season and is currently netting 8.9 ppg, to go along with a team-high 6.6 rpg for ODU, which as a whole is producing 67.5 ppg, behind a 44.8 percent shooting effort.
The Irish are anchored by the play of Luke Harangody down low. The talented forward has been coming off the bench of late and it has paid off for the Irish. Notre Dame possesses other talented players, but the heart and soul of this squad is Harangody, who finished in the top 10 in the nation in scoring with 22.4 ppg. Harangody, who is shooting 48.6 percent on the season, is also leading the Irish with 9.2 rpg. However, the senior has not done all the work on his own, as Tim Abromaitis and Ben Hansbrough have also made solid contributions throughout the campaign. Abromaitis has been a dangerous weapon from behind the arc, connecting on 44.0 percent of his three-point attempts and comes into this matchup averaging 16.3 ppg. As for Hansbrough, he is netting 11.8 ppg for Notre Dame and has also dished out 150 assists on the season. Running the show on the floor has been Tory Jackson, who has distributed a team-best 181 assists, to go along with 9.8 ppg for the Irish, who as a whole are producing 76.0 ppg.
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Two playoff teams from 2007 take center stage on the NFL Network Sunday night in a Week 2 NFL betting match-up when the (0-1) New England Patriots betting head south to Florida for a contest with the (1-0) Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
New England HC Bill Belichick couldn’t care less about the way his team plays in the preseason. With a chance to tie last week’s game with the Baltimore Ravens betting, He elected to go for the two-point conversion and outright victory. The conversion failed, and the Pats ended up falling to the Ravens by a 16-15 final count.
New England rolled off twelve unanswered points to give it a chance at securing the victory, but it never threatened to cover the 3.5-point spread. NFL bettors saw this one coming, as they bet the Ravens down from +6 to +3.5 as the week progressed. QB Tom Brady didn’t take part in the Patriots first preseason clash, but could see action this weekend.
His three replacements all put up embarrassing numbers. They went a combined 17 for 33, and threw three interceptions and no touchdowns. The New England defense was encouraging, as they held the Ravens to 2/12 third down conversions and surrendered just ten first downs. That ‘D’ should be bolstered with the addition of former Bucs and Denver Broncos betting safety John Lynch, who could make his Patriots debut on Sunday against his former mates.
HC Jon Gruden had to be impressed with the way his Bucs played on both sides of the ball in their dominating 17-6 victory over the Miami Dolphins in Week 1’s NFL pre-season betting action. Bucs bettors were quite happy with the effort, as they made a mockery of the fact that they were underdogs in the game.
The logjam at the quarterback position didn’t get any easier to separate for Gruden, as all four of his QBs had positive experiences in the first exhibition of 2008. The four combined to complete 28 of their 40 passes for 204 yards and a touchdown, and that was without starting QB Jeff Garcia in the lineup.
RB Michael Bennett had 19 carries and four receptions, totaling 90 yards and a touchdown. Expect to see more of Bennett, Kenneth Darby, and Earnest Graham, as they all compete for playing time with Warrick Dunn in the backfield this season. Defensively, the Bucs recorded four sacks and held the Fins offense in check all day.
First round draft pick Aqib Talib was impressive in the secondary, recording a tackle and two pass defenses in his debut. Don’t be surprised to see Talib in the starting lineup opposite Ronde Barber for the Bucs in ’08.
The betting trends suggest that NFL bettors should be backing the Bucs in this intra-conference exhibition.
These two teams hooked up last year in Tampa Bay, with the Bucs winning that game 13-10. The Buccaneers have only lost one preseason game at home dating back to the beginning of the ’05 preseason. The Patriots have had a mixed bag of results in their recent exhibitions. They have gone 2-2 ATS and SU each of the last three years.
New England currently sits as modest 1-point favorites in this preseason showdown with the ‘total’ now sitting at 34.5.
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