{"id":3141,"date":"2008-12-27T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/washington-state-lsu-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-27T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T17:15:00","slug":"washington-state-lsu-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/washington-state-lsu-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington State-LSU 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 Washington State Cougars and the LSU Tigers will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Pete<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName>Maravich<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName>Assembly<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Center<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <?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\">Oddsmakers currently have the Tigers listed as 4\u00bd-point favorites versus the Cougars, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 115. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Washington<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> defeated <st1:State><st1:place>Idaho<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> 55-41 as an 11.5-point favorite on Sunday. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (115). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Aron Baynes scored a game-high 18 points to go along with nine rebounds for <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Washington<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>, while Taylor Rochestie added 11 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:place><st1:PlaceName>Washington<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> has won 2 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Washington<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 8-3 SU, 4-5 ATS <br \/>LSU: 9-1 SU, 2-1 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">LSU most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Louisiana-Lafayette are 3-0<br \/>After playing <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>McNeese<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> are 6-4<br \/>After a win are 8-2<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Washington State&#8217;s last 8 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Washington State&#8217;s last 8 games <br \/>Washington State is 8-3 SU in its last 11 games <br \/>Washington State is 16-7 SU in its last 23 games on the road<br \/>LSU is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home<br \/>LSU is 9-1 SU in its last 10 games <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Washington<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> home to <st1:State><st1:place>Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Saturday, January 3<br \/>LSU home to Louisiana-Lafayette, Wednesday, December 31<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><b><span style=\"TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase\"><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/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 Washington State Cougars and the LSU Tigers will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Pete Maravich Assembly Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Tigers listed as 4\u00bd-point favorites versus the Cougars, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 115. Washington State defeated Idaho 55-41 as an 11.5-point &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/washington-state-lsu-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Washington State-LSU 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-3141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141","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=3141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}