Louisville vs North Carolina 2/1/22 College Basketball Picks, Predictions, Odds

The North Carolina Tar Heels and the Louisville Cardinals meet in college basketball action from the KFC Yum! Center on Tuesday night.

The North Carolina Tar Heels will try to add to their current three-game winning streak after a 100-80 win over NC State last time out. Armando Bacot leads UNC in scoring and rebounding with 16.3 PPG and 12.1 RPG, averaging a double-double per game while Caleb Love has 15.3 PPG with 3.2 RPG and a team-high 3.4 APG. R.J. Davis has 13.7 PPG with 4 RPG and 3.4 APG while Brady Manek has 13 PPG with 5.6 RPG to round out the scoring in double figures for the Tar Heels so far this season. As a team, North Carolina is averaging 78 PPG on 45.4% shooting from the field, 38.1% from behind the arc and 75.8% from the foul line while allowing 71.5 PPG on 43.1% shooting from the field and 33.2% from three this season.

The Louisville Cardinals will be out to bounce back from a third straight loss after a 74-65 loss to Duke in their last game. Malik Williams leads the Cardinals in scoring and rebounding with 10 PPG and 8.6 RPG as the lone double-digit scorer for Louisville so far this season. Noah Locke has 9.8 PPG with Mason Faulkner adding 3 APG to lead the Cardinals in assists as well on the year. As a team, Louisville is averaging 68.3 PPG on 42.2% shooting from the field, 32.2% from three and 68% from the foul line while allowing 68 PPG on 41.5% shooting from the field and 32.6% from three this season.

North Carolina is 1-4 ATS in their last 5 road games and 2-5 ATS in their last 7 Tuesday games while the over is 4-1 in their last 5 road games against a team with a winning home record. Louisville is 1-5 ATS in their last 6 home games and 1-9-1 ATS in their last 11 games overall while the under is 6-0 in their last 6 games following a loss.

I get why you’d look the way of Louisville here as this line looks weird and maybe someone knows something. However, I think this is just a spot where you have to take the better team at a cheap price. This Louisville team is so inconsistent and the adjustment to life without Chris Mack on the bench, is something that kind of steers me off of the Cardinals as well as the 1-8-1 mark ATS in their last ten games. UNC’s a solid squad that’s starting to turn it on as of late, so give me the Tar Heels laying the bucket in this one.