Both Minnesota and Northwestern split the two meetings. Both won the home games and now they meet in Indy on neutral court and the better team should show up. To me I think that's Minnesota I think this line is inflated because everyone is thinking Northwestern is a bubble team. I don't think this team is anything special and they were outrebounded by 27 total in the two match ups. Minnesota was clearly the better team if you look at the two match ups and have the better defense. Northwestern has not show the ball as well on the road and their defense is suspect allowing 48% from the field compared to Minnesota's 41.2%. Minnesota has the ability to get extra shots and should pull off a shocking win here.
SFlorida is about to shock everyone in my opinion they are now 13-6 in conference play. Their non-conference schedule not particularly hard, but they are in the top 4 or 5 in Big East defense and the fact that Notre Dame went cold down the stretch shooting the ball and South Florida is 19th overall in 3 point defense and Notre Dame shoots 42% of its shots from the perimeter tells me this is a good match up for them on revenge. Notre Dame has not played well on the road and actually looking at the stats South Florida has played better. They should have a considerable advantage on the boards ranked 61st in the county to Notre Dame's 184th and even better in their last 3 and were better on the road. Both teams have played close games all year and in that case I"m taking the under dog and for South Florida to shock.
