#8 Louisville vs. #9 Creighton: NCAA Tournament Showdown Tips

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00:001215 p.m. Eastern time the 8-9 matchup in the South region a team on the 8 line

00:06That surprised many in the Louisville Cardinals a team that finished runner-up in the ACC tournament reaching that tournament title game

00:14Against the Blue Devils and a team out of the Big East the ninth seed in the South region

00:19That being the Creighton Blue Jays VRS. We expect this game to be close

00:24just look at the odds a two and a half point spread in favor of the cards a total of

00:30145 and a half. It is our first game in the first round. It is round of 64 Thursday. How do you think it starts?

00:39What a banger right off the bat, right you also taking a look at where this game is being played. It's Rupp Arena

00:43It's in Lexington. It's in Kentucky unless I check Louisville is in the state of Kentucky

00:47That's gonna be a home game for Louisville

00:49So an added advantage if you are trying to break this game down though

00:51There are some things that Creighton does that probably could frustrate Louisville

00:54But also getting players back in the tournament to see how they mesh back in

00:59We'll talk about Arkansas in just a little bit with boogie flan expected to play for Arkansas after being about so many weeks now

01:04Same thing here with Louisville work, you know

01:06They like the three-point shot 19th over on the country at firing from three-point range

01:10Rain Smith has been out for a couple games now in a couple weeks

01:13He looks to be back in watching the practice reports and seeing a move fluently

01:16That means your best three-point shooters already made over a hundred three-point shots this year back in the fold opens up for everything else

01:24Includes Chucky Hedberg, so heparin so for my money

01:27Yeah, if you're just looking at the numbers itself, and this is where I made a change yesterday

01:31I had Creighton advancing over Louisville. It's gonna be a tough game

01:34You see how close that spread is

01:35but for me the

01:36Intangibles of this game getting your best three-point shooter back playing a de facto home game and I'll have to cover eight nine or ten

01:43Points here. I'm taking the Louisville Cardinal in this game and I changed my bracket for them to advance

01:47So again, I'm gonna go with them with the two and a half points to cover that spread

01:51I like to take points all over the place

01:52This one is within that realm of outside of like three and a half four points. It gets a little dicey Louisville wins this game

01:57They're probably gonna cover the spread. I went that direction