{"id":3118,"date":"2008-12-23T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/illinois-missouri-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-23T10:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T15:50:00","slug":"illinois-missouri-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/illinois-missouri-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois-Missouri Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The fans at JQH Arena will be treated to a game between the Illinois Fighting Illini and the Missouri Tigers when they take their seats on Tuesday. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Odds aren&#8217;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:State><st1:place>Illinois<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> ripped apart <st1:City><st1:place>Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> in the second half to earn an 82-51 win on Saturday. <st1:State><st1:place>Illinois<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> covered the 19-point spread, and the 133 points sailed OVER the posted total of 116. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Trent Meacham shot 5-for-5 from the field with 15 points, and Mike Tisdale also had 17 points in the win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Illinois<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 4 straight games.<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Missouri<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 7 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Illinois<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 10-1 SU, 5-3 ATS <br \/>Missouri: 9-1 SU, <st1:date Month=\"4\" Day=\"1\" Year=\"2001\">4-1-1<\/st1:date> ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:State><st1:place>Illinois<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 8-2<br \/>After a win are 8-2<\/p>\n<p><st1:State><st1:place>Missouri<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 6-4<br \/>After playing Stetson are 2-0<br \/>After a win are 7-3<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Illinois is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Missouri<br \/>Illinois is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Missouri<br \/>Illinois is 10-1 SU in its last 11 games <br \/>Illinois is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games on the road<br \/>Missouri is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home<br \/>Missouri is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>Missouri is 2-4-1 ATS in its last 7 games when playing Illinois<br \/>Missouri is 1-3-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing at home against Illinois<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Illinois<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to <st1:place>Eastern Michigan<\/st1:place>, Sunday, December 28<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Missouri<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to SIU Edwardsville, Saturday, December 27<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fans at JQH Arena will be treated to a game between the Illinois Fighting Illini and the Missouri Tigers when they take their seats on Tuesday. Odds aren&#8217;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. Illinois ripped apart Detroit in the second half to earn an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/illinois-missouri-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Illinois-Missouri Preview<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118","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=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}