The 11th-seeded Notre Dame Fighting Irish (23-10) will attempt to pull off a first-round NCAA Tournament upset against the No. 6 seed Alabama Crimson Tide (19-13) on Friday at Viejas Arena at Aztec Bowl. The matchup starts at 4:15 PM on TNT. Notre Dame is a 4-point underdog in the game. Here’s what you need to know before filling out your brackets for this 6-11 matchup in the West Regional Region.
Alabama has an 11-21-0 record against the spread so far this season compared to Notre Dame, who is 17-16-0 ATS. A total of 22 out of the Crimson Tide’s 33 games this season have hit the over, and 18 of the Fighting Irish’s 33 games have gone over. The teams combine to score 153 points per game, equal to this matchup’s over/under. Alabama is 3-7-0 against the spread and 5-5 overall over its past 10 games, while Notre Dame has gone 5-5-0 against the spread and 6-4 overall.
Get ready for this matchup with what you need to know ahead of Friday’s college hoops action.
Notre Dame at Alabama odds, spread and lines
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- Spread: Alabama -4
- Total: 153
- Moneyline: Alabama -183, Notre Dame +150
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Notre Dame at Alabama odds, spread, & more
Moneyline
- The Crimson Tide have put together a 16-9 record in games they were listed as the moneyline favorite (winning 64% of those games).
- Alabama has a record of 15-6 when it has played as a moneyline favorite with odds of -183 or shorter (71.4%).
- The Crimson Tide have an implied moneyline win probability of 64.7% in this game.
- The Fighting Irish have entered the game as underdogs 13 times this season and won six, or 46.2%, of those games.
- Notre Dame has a record of 2-5 when set as an underdog of +150 or more by sportsbooks this season.
- Bookmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Fighting Irish have a 40.0% chance to win.
Against the spread
- The 80 points per game the Crimson Tide record are 12.5 more points than the Fighting Irish allow (67.5).
- Alabama has a 10-18 record against the spread and an 18-11 record overall when scoring more than 67.5 points.
- Notre Dame is 17-11 against the spread and 21-8 overall when allowing fewer than 80 points.
- The Fighting Irish’s 73 points per game are only 3.4 fewer points than the 76.4 the Crimson Tide give up.
- Notre Dame is 7-2 against the spread and 9-0 overall when it scores more than 76.4 points.
- Alabama’s record is 6-8 against the spread and 12-2 overall when it allows fewer than 73 points.
- The Crimson Tide have out-scored their opponents by a total of 114 points this season (3.6 points per game on average), and the Fighting Irish have put up 183 more points than their opponents on the year (5.5 per game).
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Over/Under
- The Crimson Tide have an average implied point total equal to their implied total in Friday’s game (79).
- This season, Alabama has outscored its implied point total for this matchup (79) 17 times.
- The 72.2-point average implied total on the season for the Fighting Irish is equal to the team’s implied total in this matchup.
- On the season, Notre Dame has put up more than 75 points in a game 12 times.
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How to watch Alabama vs. Notre Dame
- Game Day: Friday, March 18, 2022
- Game Time: 4:15 PM ET
- Live Stream: Hulu
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