CBB: Syracuse at Louisville (2:00 PM ET, ESPN)

Syracuse has wrapped up the regular season Big East title, and with that comes the #1 seed in next week’s league tournament. Of course, the Orange are thinking even further ahead than that, hoping for an overall #1 seed in the Big Dance. A loss at Louisvi

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Syracuse has wrapped up the regular season Big East title, and with that comes the #1 seed in next week’s league tournament. Of course, the Orange are thinking even further ahead than that, hoping for an overall #1 seed in the Big Dance. A loss at Louisville on Saturday would not help that cause. On the other bench, Louisville should be in the tourney itself, but an upset of the nation’s top ranked team would cement it. Can the Cardinals pull it off? Most bettors at Sportsbook.com don’t figure to go that way, but you still can.

The last team to finish 9-0 on the Big East road was Connecticut ,11 years ago, and that team went on to win a national championship. Syracuse (28-2, 19-7 ATS) is perfect thus far as conference guests and would love to saunter down a similar path this season. The Orangemen are also 11-0 SU and 10-1 ATS away from Syracuse and freshman guard Brandon Triche has the answer why. "Less to do. On the road, you can't really go out. All you do is just sit there and think about the game." The ‘Cuse is 9-0 ATS having won four of five games this season.

It has been an escalator ride for Louisville (19-11, 9-16 ATS) this season; going down after loss at St. John’s by 19 and going right back up when they knocked off Syracuse in New York in the next outing. This is not your typical Rick Pitino club, normally peaking at this time, instead when asked where his team was headed late in the season, his response was “next game”. This has been a team marked with inconsistency, making them an unsafe wager at home, where the Cardinals are 14-4, with a rueful 4-9 ATS mark. This will be the last game at Freedom Hall, where Louisville has won over 80 percent of their games in this building since playing their starting in the 1957/58 season.

Not many matchups with Louisville, still a relative newcomer to Big East, yet Syracuse is 0-5 and 0-4-1 ATS the last three years. Still, the StatFox Power Line shows Syracuse by 4

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