2009 Men's NCAA Tournament First Round Picks: Midwest Region, March 20 (Part 2)

At CBBPlace.com, we've been doing College Basketball Picks Against the Spread all season. There are five of us from CBBPlace who also write on B/R: Ryan, Mitch, Dave, Shaun, and Steve. There is a very good chance that if you have been following college basketball this season (even just casually), you have read something by one of us.

With that in mind, we have decided to do our first ever collaboration article—we are all going to do quick picks against the spread for the NCAA Tournament, and they will be posted in a series of articles broken out by the date of the game and region of the tournament.

We have posted well over 1,000 Free Picks Against the Spread this season and have amassed more than 500,000 hits since the site went up at the end of January! The bottom line: Hopefully we know a little something about the teams involved in these games!

NCAA Tournament—Midwest Region

Thursday, March20

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No. 1 Louisville vs. No. 16 Morehead State
7:10 PM EST

	Record	Conf	ATS	RPI	SOS	PF	PA
Morehead St	20-15	12-6	19-11	140	189	70.2	66.8
Louisville	28-5	16-2	21-11	4	11	43.9	61.6

	FG%	D. FG%	3P%	D. 3P%	FT%	RPG	SPG	APG	TPG	BPG
Morehead St	43.9	41.5	33.2	35.1	72.1	42.4	6.7	12.9	15.3	3.9
Louisville	45.1	39.3	36.0	30.4	64.3	40.6	9.3	16.6	13.7	6.2

Line: Louisville -22.0

Mitch: Louisville -22.0—The Eagles are a feisty bunch but being feisty isn't going to help them enough against the Louisville defense.
Dave: Louisville -22.0—Morehead State will crumble against the 'Ville defense.
Ryan: Louisville -22.0—Louisville's on a ten-game win streak and has won big on more than one occasion. If the Big East couldn't stop them, Morehead State won't be able to either.
Shaun: Louisville -22.0—Top seeds beat the play-in game winner by an average of 27 points per game, and there's no reason to think this game will be any different.

Dog Feces w/ Googly Eyes from Geico Commercials: Morehead State +22.0

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Please take a look at our other NCAA Tournament First Round Picks:

Midwest Region, March 20
East Region, March 19
East Region, March 20
South Region, March 19
South Region, March 20
West Region, March 19
West Region, March 20