{"id":10958,"date":"2011-03-29T00:53:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T00:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/?p=10958"},"modified":"2011-03-29T01:07:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T01:07:23","slug":"butler-vs-vcu-sports-betting-breakdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/butler-vs-vcu-sports-betting-breakdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler vs. VCU, Kentucky vs. Connecticut Sports Betting Breakdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Final 4 2011 predictions info is up from a <a href=\"http:\/\/offshoreinsiders.com\/\">sports handicapping<\/a> standpoint. It\u2019s Butler vs. Virginia Commonwealth and Kentucky vs. Connecticut. Here are the betting matchups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Virginia Commonwealth vs. Butler (-2.5) 133.5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spread betting trends<strong> <\/strong>(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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kentucky (-2.5) 140 vs. Connecticut<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spread betting trends<strong> <\/strong>(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.<\/p>\n<p>UConn is 6-0 \u00a0neutral site games as an underdog, 9-1 10 non-conference games, 26-9 \u00a0following a S.U. win, 23-8 as underdogs.<\/p>\n<p>Over\/under trends: Kentucky over 5-0 off straight up win.<\/p>\n<p>The top <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettorsadvice.com\/\">picks against the spread<\/a> will be on the OffshoreInsiders.com Network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Final 4 2011 predictions info is up from a sports handicapping standpoint. It\u2019s 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/butler-vs-vcu-sports-betting-breakdown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Butler vs. VCU, Kentucky vs. Connecticut Sports Betting Breakdown<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_betting_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10958"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10961,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10958\/revisions\/10961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}