It’s Butler and Connecticut in the 2011 National Championship game and the odds are up.  Connecticut is (-4.5) with a total of 129. The moneyline has the Huskies (-208)

Grandmaster Sports Handicapper Joe Duffy, CEO of OffshoreInsiders.com, the top sports betting site in the world of course sweeps the board in basketball with Connecticut, the game under, and Butler. In the NBA, Memphis made it 4-0.

Here is what professional sports bettors got before the game in basketball from GodsTips.

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Wise Guy…

CONNECTICUT +2.5 Kentucky

UConn is the perfect Adrian Barbeau teams that win big games in the Dance. They are very top heavy with the nation’s best go-to guy Kemba Walker and the newest No. 2 guy Jeremy Lamb.

Now we won’t deny, Kentucky did beat a top-heavy team in Ohio State, though by just two points. However while OSU had inside monster Jared Sullinger and outside shooter William Buford, what Kemba Walker can do is create shots.

Kentucky is outstanding and challenging shots, but Walker is quick and as good as it gets in finding seams. He is an underrated distributor and Lamb’s emergence is huge.

Kentucky was dominated once this year. It was a neutral court. The team was UConn. The Huskies are the best team from the best conference and win outright.

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Connecticut-Kentucky UNDER 140

This is a competitor consensus. If we have a lean one way and one of the few sports services or sources we respect has a big pick on a certain side, we pass along as a competitor consensus.

BUTLER -2.5 Virginia Commonwealth

Look Butler is clearly for real. No team has won more in March with their current crop of talent than Butler, a team in the Final 4 for the second straight time. Everyone forgets this team was nationally ranked all last year. The only thing Cinderella is they are from a non-BCS conference.

VCU is up there with George Mason and Penn and true glass slipper teams as many though VCU shouldn’t be here. Guess what happened to the true Cinderella teams in the Final 4? Both crash and burned in the semis. LSU was the third lowest seed to make the Final 4. They also lost by double-digits in the semis.

Butler is very good at controlling the clock and will take VCU out of their rhythm. History says teams like VCU find out the Final 4 is the great equalizer. It happens again.

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MEMPHIS -13 Minnesota

With O.J. Mayo stepping up in the absence of Rudy Gay, the Grizz have not missed a beat. They match up well to Minnesota.

The Grizzlies won 102-84 and 104-95 at Target Center in February and 109-89 in Memphis in season’s third game back in October.

Memphis, as much as any team in the NBA, plays so much better at home than on the road. The Grizz are +6.8 points per game at home compared to Minny -9.7 on the road.

Both teams are playing their third game in four nights including playing back-to-back nights.  But Memphis has more depth and the Wolves are playing a brutal stretch in which their previous five games were to Dallas, Oklahoma City, Boston, Chicago, and Miami.

Who is hot and who has the big plays? Here is every sports service pick needed for the Final 4 games Connecticut-Kentucky, VCU-Butler, plus MLB picks, and NBA picks as well. There is even a Women’s NCAA Tournament spread pick.

First from the The Canadian Crew: The VCU vs. Butler total is the best bet of the day without question. Adjustments and matchups and likely scenarios that will play out make this over/under just too good. Also get a standard play lock on Connecticut vs. Kentucky too. Yet another winning month is in full swing! The Best Bet of Final 4, Butler and Virginia Commonwealth total tops the card.

Now to the winningest handicapper ever, GodsTips. The Lord of the Dance owns the Final 4 again. Both side selections are up. The Wise Guy is on UConn and Kentucky side, plus we have the total on that game. Get three Final 4 plays from the winningest handicapper who has ever lived.

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Stevie Vincent has a big card. Forensic sports handicapping says both sides UConn/Kentucky, Butler/VCU rise to the level of premium lock plays and the earlier tipoff is a Level 5. So is a pro basketball game. Get ready to sweep, sweep, sweep again.

Now to Power of 620 sports services behind every selection, the MasterLockLine:

An incredible March put him back into the positive side this year, but he has had 22 winning days overall in March and is 26-6 with all college plays, inside and outside the Dance. March Madness Game of the Year Kentucky over North Carolina won last Sunday. You know it’s legit because you got them all here.  NCAA Tournament Bet of the Year on the Kentucky/Connecticut total

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Service out of the southeast is without any debate the top big play service since summer of 2009 with big plays. Their biggest play is a Deposit Slip in which they average less than two per week. Just the 8^th NBA Deposit Slip all season on Oklahoma City/LA Clippers side

Baseball service out of Detroit became the first service EVER to have three straight MLB seasons in which they won at least 40 units (one unit per bet) in 2006-08. In 2009, they “dropped to +31.7 units” still 13^th in the world. We ride history in 2010. Their Mandated Bets have an unprecedented rate of return of any sports service rated bets in any sport.

Kal Elner is ranked No. 11 all-time in MLB handicapping based on units won. However, he is probably the top early season handicapper ever on baseball as he spends about two weeks at Spring Training and spots who will come out of the gate quickly or slowly.  Two more for Saturday, a side and a total. It’s all at OffshoreInsiders.com

The morning line for the 2011 Final 4, Virginia Commonwealth vs. Butler and Kentucky vs. Connecticut has not seen a lot of movement and are presented below.

OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has a free pick Saturday on the Houston Astros (+225) at Philadelphia.

Reasoning: I never mind teams that are coming off of horrific losses and that is the case with the Houston Astros after blowing the 4-0 lead very late yesterday. Professionals just seem to bounce back a lot more than they don’t no matter the situation and at this quality take back why not back the visitors from Houston?

Of course Cliff Lee has the upside of any pitcher in the game today, save maybe Roy Halladay, and could twirl a gem against any team and that certainly includes the mediocre at the very best Astros. But there is something right now about Charlie Manual’s offense with Chase Utley out that I do not like. Ryan Howard and the boys did not look very good yesterday at all. They did win in the end thanks to a bunch of key singles but I do not believe this team is locked and loaded. We saw a bunch of ice cold hitting from the Phils last season as they struggled immensely at times. How they wound up winning 97 games or whatever truly was a miracle as they just weren’t that good a lot of the time.

Wandy Rodriguez gets the ball for the Astros and the lefty at times can be awesome. He was not that good in the first half of last season but this kid has high quality stuff and certainly can neutralize Howard, Raul Ibanez and whatever lefty is in the Philadelphia lineup.

If Lee is lights out and just too good then I will tip my cap. But Rodriguez can match him with some zeros of his own and after yesterday’s rough beat and at this big-time take back I am fine with Hunter Pence, Michael Bourn and the Astros today.

Top expert pick on this game: Houston Astros

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Here is the morning line for the 2011 Final 4

OffshoreInsiders.com presents The Final 4 2011 predictions info is up from a sports handicapping standpoint. It’s Butler vs. Virginia Commonwealth and Kentucky vs. Connecticut. Here are the betting matchups.

Virginia Commonwealth vs. Butler (-2.5) 133.5

Spread betting trends (all records are against the spread): VCU 9-0 is as an underdog, 9-0 in NCAA Tournament, 6-0 nonconference, 5-0 as an underdog.

Butler is 6-0 off straight up win, 15-2 on neutral courts, 21-4 versus an opponent with a winning percentage of .600 or above, 17-5 in NCAA Tournament, 2-15 to teams with a winning record, and 40-16 outside the conference.

Over/under trends: VCU over 10-3 off win, but under 7-3 as an underdog of 0.5-6.5. Butler has gone under 7-2 in NCAA Tournament, over 14-6 neutral site games as a favorite, under 7-3 off win.

Kentucky (-2.5) 140 vs. Connecticut

Spread betting trends (all records are against the spread): Kentucky 7-1 in nonconference games, 8-2 NCAA Tournament games as a favorite, 16-5 to Big East, but 3-7 off straight up win.

UConn is 6-0  neutral site games as an underdog, 9-1 10 non-conference games, 26-9  following a S.U. win, 23-8 as underdogs.

Over/under trends: Kentucky over 5-0 off straight up win.

Top expert pick on today’s card: GodsTips, the Lord of the Dance owns the Final 4 again. Both side selections are up. The Wise Guy is on UConn and Kentucky side, plus we have the total on that game. Get three Final 4 plays from the winningest handicapper who has ever lived. Get the Final 4 winners now

OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has a free pick Friday is on the Seattle Mariners (+103) White Sox.

Trevor Cahill had a breakout season last year and probably is a legitimate and very good pitcher but to get money with Felix Hernandez is just way too good to pass up.

The A’s are probably the superior team when compared to Ichiro and the Mariners but it’s not as if that is courtesy of their offense. Oakland’s lineup is once again extremely mediocre, even with the addition of Hideki Matsui, and without a doubt could get completely shut down and shutout today by Hernandez. There are still a lot of average journeymen type bats in their order that are behind the eight ball up against Hernandez in this thing.

The Seattle hurler is arguably the best pitcher on the planet right now. If his team supported him at all last season he would have had many more wins than he had and would have been a runaway Cy Young award winner. The guy is just filthy and flat out dominant and no matter how great of a season Cahill is coming off of he is just not on the level of his mound combatant and shouldn’t be today.

Oakland is at home and should have more victories when all is said and done but that wouldn’t be the case if Hernandez was able to pitch all 162 games so being the better team overall is very irrelevant regarding today’s one single game. To not have to lay money with King Felix against pretty much anybody is a semi steal and against the good but nothing more A’s is an absolute must play today.

Top expert pick on this game: Seattle

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