Notre Dame (15-10, 5-7) at North Carolina (19-7, 8-5)
When: Sunday, February 12th 2018
Where: Dean Smith Center, Chapel Hill, NC
Time: 7:00 ET | TV: ESPN
Opening Odds: North Carolina -10.5/151
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The North Carolina Tar Heels are wrapping-up a tough stretch with a home date against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish on Monday night. The Tar Heels will be playing their third game in five days, but ended a four-game losing streak – their first in four years – with three-straight win including beating rival Duke on Thursday and North Carolina State on Saturday. Junior forward Luke Maye led North Carolina with 33 points and 17 boards in the hard-fought 96-89 win at the Wolfpack. The Tar Heels are averaging 91.3 points during the streak and will be looking for the season sweep of Notre Dame. They got by the Irish 69-68 on January 13th with a double-double from Maye (18 points, 11 boards) for their fourth straight win in the series, but will be facing a Notre Dame team that has won two-straight contests. Notre Dame, which has been without leading scorer and rebounder Bonzie Colson (foot) for the last 11 games, lost seven straight before beating Boston College and Florida State last week at home. Irish senior guard Matt Farrell scored a career-high 28 points in the win over Florida State on Saturday. Senior forward Martinas Geben is shooting 59% from the field overall and had 14 points to go along with nine boards in the first meeting.
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Farrell is healthy once again and is showing it on the court by averaging 21 points making 15-of-31 from 3-point range in three games since a stretch in which he missed five of seven games with an ankle injury. Notre Dame shot nearly 50 percent from the field against Florida State and drained 10 shots from three-point range. Sophomore guard T.J. Gibbs has also upped his game recently, averaging 21.3 points over the last six games to push his season mark to 16.3 – right behind team-leader Farrell (16.5). Junior guard Rex Pflueger scored a career-high 19 points in Saturday’s victory and is averaging 16 over the last two games.
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Maye has put his four-point performance against Clemson behind him by averaging 24.7 points over the last three games. Berry has averaged 19 points over the last four games to push his season mark up to 17.4, second on the team behind Maye (18.7, team-high 10.5 rebounds, 52.4 percent from the field). Pinson was very efficient in Saturday’s win with 11 points on 4-of-5 shooting and seven assists after connecting on 3-of-13 from the field in his previous three games. Junior guard Kenny Williams is averaging 15.3 points over the last three games after totaling 19 in the previous four.
Notre Dame is playing their best ball since Colson went down and get a tired North Carolina team. The Irish have been pretty good at covering the spread against the Tar Heels, going 6-2 over the last eight meetings.
Pick: Notre Dame +9.5
- Fighting Irish are 2-5 ATS in their last 7 games vs. a team with a winning % above .600.
- Fighting Irish are 2-5 ATS in their last 7 games vs. a team with a winning straight up record.
- Fighting Irish are 2-5 ATS in their last 7 games overall.
- Fighting Irish are 2-5 ATS in their last 7 vs. Atlantic Coast.
- Fighting Irish are 0-4 ATS in their last 4 road games vs. a team with a home winning % of greater than .600.
- Fighting Irish are 0-4 ATS in their last 4 road games.
- Fighting Irish are 0-4 ATS in their last 4 road games vs. a team with a winning home record.
- Tar Heels are 4-1 ATS in their last 5 games following a straight up win.
- Tar Heels are 36-15-2 ATS in their last 53 home games.
- Over is 5-0 in Fighting Irish last 5 Monday games.
- Over is 4-1 in Fighting Irish last 5 overall.
- Under is 4-1 in Fighting Irish last 5 road games.
- Over is 4-1 in Fighting Irish last 5 games vs. a team with a winning % above .600.
- Under is 4-1 in Fighting Irish last 5 road games vs. a team with a winning home record.
- Over is 4-1 in Fighting Irish last 5 vs. Atlantic Coast.
- Under is 4-1 in Fighting Irish last 5 road games vs. a team with a home winning % of greater than .600.
- Under is 4-1 in Fighting Irish last 5 vs. a team with a winning straight up record.
- Over is 4-1 in Tar Heels last 5 overall.
- Over is 4-1 in Tar Heels last 5 vs. Atlantic Coast.
- Under is 4-1 in Tar Heels last 5 vs. a team with a winning straight up record.
- Over is 16-5 in Tar Heels last 21 home games.
- Under is 14-6 in Tar Heels last 20 games following a ATS win.
- Home team is 5-1 ATS in the last 6 meetings.
- Under is 4-1 in the last 5 meetings in North Carolina.
- Under is 4-1 in the last 5 meetings.
- Fighting Irish are 6-2 ATS in the last 8 meetings.
- Underdog is 6-2 ATS in the last 8 meetings.
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