27 December 2011 No Comment
It?s arguably the best night of the season in college basketball on Wednesday with the Big East and Big Ten conference schedules really getting going and a handful of Top-25 matchups on the schedule. The best one appears to be between No. 12 Georgetown and No. 4 Louisville, with the Cards, one of only a few unbeatens left in the country, opening as college basketball bets favorites on WagerWeb.com.
Georgetown enters off an impressive 70-59 win over previously ranked Memphis on Dec. 22. Senior guard Jason Clark led four Hoyas in double figures with 18 points. The victory was the Hoyas second over the Tigers this season, having defeated them on November 23, 91-88 in overtime at the Maui Invitational. It was the eighth-straight win for the Hoyas, tying the team?s season-long win streak of last season as the team started 10-1 for the fifth-straight season.
Senior center has been the breakout start this year, averaging 12.5 ppg and 5.5 rpg. Prior to this season, the Hoyas? 6-foot-10 big man never averaged more than 3.6 points or 3.2 rebounds per game.
The Hoyas have played three teams who were ranked at the time so far this year, beating then-No. 12 Alabama in Tuscaloosa on Dec. 1, then-No. 8 Memphis and losing to No. 14 Kansa, also in Maui, 67-63 back on Nov. 21.
Louisville has rarely been challenged so far this season and has faced only one ranked club so far, beating then-No. 19 Vanderbilt 62-60 in overtime. The Cards last took the court on Dec. 23, a 70-60 win over Western Kentucky. Sophomores Gorgui Dieng and Russ Smith have been playing very well of late. Dieng has five straight double-doubles (he leads the Big East in blocks and is second in rebounding), and Smith has reached double figures in each of Louisville?s last four games to position the Cardinals within a game of matching their best start in program history. The 12-0 start is the school?s best in 37 years.
However, to beat Georgetown and Kentucky, which plays Louisville this weekend, the Cards need more from star guard Peyton Siva. He has more turnovers than points in Louisville?s last two games ? in the past three games Louisville has had to rally to win.
Georgetown leads the all-time series 7-4. The last meeting came Jan. 31, 2011 in Washington D.C., a 62-59 Hoyas win. However, Louisville has won three straight Big East openers.
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