{"id":1384,"date":"2008-03-17T14:38:43","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T19:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/03\/calcutta-betting-in-the-ncaa-tournament-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-03-17T14:38:43","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T19:38:43","slug":"calcutta-betting-in-the-ncaa-tournament-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/03\/calcutta-betting-in-the-ncaa-tournament-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Calcutta Betting In the NCAA Tournament 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:.5in'><\/p>\n<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The selection committee agrees with the 2008 Men\u2019s NCAA<br \/>\nBasketball <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?PageID=101\">betting<br \/>\nodds<\/a> in the West Regional. Top seeded UCLA is the heavy favorite to go to<br \/>\nthe Final 4 as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linetrackers.com\/\">sportsbooks<\/a> have them<br \/>\nat 2\/3. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Agreeing with the <span class=SpellE>seedings<\/span>, the<br \/>\nbetting odds say Duke is next at 11\/4. Where the oddsmakers disagree is that<br \/>\nNo. 4 seed <st1:State><st1:place>Connecticut<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> is 9\/1,<br \/>\nwhile the higher seeded Xavier is 11\/1. \u201cWe concur with the bias in favor of<br \/>\nmajor conferences,\u201d says Stevie Vincent, Senior Handicapper at <b\nstyle='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='color:blue'><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">OffshoreInsiders.com<\/a><\/span><\/b><span\nstyle='color:blue'>. <\/span>Xavier seems to be a popular Final 4 pick <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?PageID=93\">among media members.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The Cinderella team of the regular season is given minimal<br \/>\nchance to repeat that role in the Big Dance. Drake is 14\/1 to make it to the<br \/>\nApril climax to March Madness. Purdue is next 20\/1. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Cy McCormick tells us of his favorite <st1:City><st1:place>Calcutta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><br \/>\nbetting value team Baylor. McCormick, head of the online betting syndicate <span\nstyle='color:black'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.masterlockline.com\/\"><span\nstyle='color:black'>MasterLockLine.com<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>says that Baylor has<br \/>\nbeen as streaky as any team in the country and is the classic example of a team<br \/>\nthat \u201ccan get hot at the right time.\u201d <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Who will cover each individual game? The sports betting<br \/>\nexperts at <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='color:blue'><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">OffshoreInsiders.com<\/a><\/span><\/b> are<br \/>\nthe best source for March Madness pointspread winners. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/body><br \/>\n<\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The selection committee agrees with the 2008 Men\u2019s NCAA Basketball betting odds in the West Regional. Top seeded UCLA is the heavy favorite to go to the Final 4 as sportsbooks have them at 2\/3. Agreeing with the seedings, the betting odds say Duke is next at 11\/4. Where the oddsmakers disagree is that No. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/03\/calcutta-betting-in-the-ncaa-tournament-2008\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Calcutta Betting In the NCAA Tournament 2008<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[215,216],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_betting_news","tag-calcutta-betting","tag-ncaa-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}