{"id":3143,"date":"2008-12-27T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/uab-louisville-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-27T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T17:24:00","slug":"uab-louisville-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/uab-louisville-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"UAB-Louisville 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 UAB Blazers and the Louisville Cardinals will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Freedom Hall. <?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 Cardinals listed as 13-point favorites versus the Blazers, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Paul Delaney was good for 16 points on Monday night as UAB cruised to a 76-43 win over Florida Atlantic. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Blazers had no trouble covering the 17-point spread in that contest, while the combined score fell UNDER the night&#8217;s posted total (142). <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:City><st1:place>Louisville<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> was shocked by <st1:State><st1:place>Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, 70-64 at <st1:place><st1:PlaceType>University<\/st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName>Phoenix Stadium<\/st1:PlaceName><\/st1:place> Saturday. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:State><st1:place>Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> covered as a 9-point neutral-site underdog. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/>UAB has won 3 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/>UAB: 8-3 SU, 5-6 ATS <br \/>Louisville: 7-2 SU, 4-5 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:City><st1:place>Louisville<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 7-3<br \/>Before playing UNLV are 1-1<br \/>After a loss 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 \/>UAB is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>UAB is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Louisville<br \/>UAB is 6-2 ATS in its last 8 games when playing Louisville<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 9 of UAB&#8217;s last 13 games on the road<br \/>Louisville is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing UAB<br \/>Louisville is 9-1 SU in its last 10 games at home<br \/>Louisville is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 17 of Louisville&#8217;s last 23 games at home<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/>UAB at <st1:City><st1:place>Butler<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, December 30<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Louisville<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to UNLV, 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 UAB Blazers and the Louisville Cardinals will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Freedom Hall. Oddsmakers currently have the Cardinals listed as 13-point favorites versus the Blazers, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. Paul Delaney was good for 16 points on Monday night as UAB &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/uab-louisville-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UAB-Louisville 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-3143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143","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=3143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}