{"id":3212,"date":"2009-01-03T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/rice-richmond-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-01-03T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T16:11:00","slug":"rice-richmond-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/rice-richmond-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice-Richmond 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 Rice Owls and the Richmond Spiders 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>Robins<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName>Center<\/st1:PlaceName><\/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 Spiders listed as 10\u00bd-point favorites versus the Owls, 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\">Rice was defeated 72-60 by Texas A &amp; M on Wednesday, as 7.5-point underdogs at home. The game&#8217;s 132 points made it OVER the posted total of 130. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Rodney Foster led Rice with 18 points in a losing effort. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/>Rice: 5-8 SU, <st1:date Month=\"5\" Day=\"4\" Year=\"2001\">5-4-1<\/st1:date> ATS <br \/>Richmond: 7-6 SU, 4-2 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Rice most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Tulane are 4-3<br \/>After playing Texas A&amp;M are 1-3<br \/>After a loss are 4-6<\/p>\n<p>Richmond most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing George Washington are 2-8<br \/>After playing VMI are 3-2<br \/>After a loss 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 \/>The total has gone UNDER in 13 of Rice&#8217;s last 16 games on the road<br \/>Rice is 5-2 ATS in its last 7 games on the road<br \/>Rice is 5-20 SU in its last 25 games <br \/>Rice is 1-16 SU in its last 17 games on the road<br \/>Richmond is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games at home<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/>Rice at Tulane, Saturday, January 10<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Richmond<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at George Washington, Saturday, January 10<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 Rice Owls and the Richmond Spiders will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Robins Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Spiders listed as 10\u00bd-point favorites versus the Owls, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. Rice was defeated 72-60 by Texas A &amp; M on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/rice-richmond-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rice-Richmond 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-3212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212","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=3212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}