Louisville vs Notre Dame 1/22/22 College Basketball Picks, Predictions, Odds

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Louisville Cardinals meet in college basketball action from the KFC Yum! Center on Saturday afternoon.

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish will try to build off of a 71-68 win over Howard last time out. Dane Goodwin leads the Irish in scoring with 15.4 PPG along with 5 RPG while Blake Wesley has 14.6 PPG and Paul Atkinson Jr. has 11.5 PPG with 6.4 RPG to make up the trio of double-digit scorers for Notre Dame so far this season. Nate Laszewski leads the Irish on the glass with 7.4 RPG while Prentiss Hubb has a team-high 3.4 APG as well this season. As a team, Notre Dame is averaging 71 PPG on 45.2% shooting from the field, 36% from three and 75.7% from the foul line while allowing 66.4 PPG on 43.8% shooting from the field and 34.6% from three this season.

The Louisville Cardinals will look to build on their 67-54 win over Boston College last time out. Noah Locke leads the Cardinals in scoring with 10.8 PPG as the lone double-digit scorer for Louisville up to this point in the season while Malik Williams has 9.9 PPG with a team-high 8.8 RPG to lead Louisville on the glass this year. Jarrod West also has a team-high 3.3 APG as well on the year. As a team, Louisville is averaging 69.3 PPG on 42.2% shooting from the field, 31.3% from three and 68.9% from the foul line while allowing 67.1 PPG on 40.1% shooting from the field and 31% from three this season.

Notre Dame is 4-0 ATS in their last 4 games following a win and 1-6 ATS in their last 7 road games against a team with a winning home record while the under is 4-0 in their last 4 games against a team with a winning record. Louisville is 1-6-1 ATS in their last 8 games overall and 0-4 ATS in their last 5 games against a team with a winning record while the under is 3-1-1 in their last 5 games following an ATS win.

I get why some people would hop off of Notre Dame here after a narrow call against Howard last time out, but I truly wonder how much the Irish were truly focusing on Howard and potentially looking forward to this game. The Cardinals has kept up the higher level of competition, but Louisville hasn’t been playing like a dominant team as of late and I’m not even sure I want to lay the points with them here. I lean towards Notre Dame and the points in this one.