{"id":3549,"date":"2009-02-21T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/butler-davidson-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-02-21T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T15:00:00","slug":"butler-davidson-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/butler-davidson-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler-Davidson Lines 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 Butler Bulldogs and the Davidson Wildcats will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Belk Arena. <?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 = st2 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st2:PersonName><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas:contacts\" \/><st1:GivenName>Matt<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:Sn>Howard<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> went for 20 points and nine rebounds for <st2:City><st2:place>Butler<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> in its 63-60 loss to <st2:City><st2:place>Milwaukee<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> on Wednesday night. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st2:City><st2:place>Milwaukee<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> cashed in as 5-point home underdogs as the game played under the 129.5-point total listed by sportsbooks. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st2:City><st2:place>Butler<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> has lost 2 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st2:City><st2:place>Butler<\/st2:place><\/st2:City>: 22-4 SU, <st2:date Month=\"10\" Day=\"13\" Year=\"2001\">13-10-1<\/st2:date> ATS <br \/>Davidson: 22-5 SU, <st2:date Month=\"12\" Day=\"12\" Year=\"2001\">12-12-1<\/st2:date> ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Butler most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 7-2<br \/>Before playing Youngstown State are 5-5<br \/>After playing Wisc-Milwaukee are 8-2<br \/>After a loss are 9-1<\/p>\n<p>Davidson most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 7-3<br \/>Before playing UNC Greensboro are 8-2<br \/>After playing The Citadel are 7-3<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 \/>Butler is 21-4 SU in its last 25 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Butler&#8217;s last 6 games <br \/>Butler is 15-4 SU in its last 19 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 6 of Butler&#8217;s last 8 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Davidson&#8217;s last 5 games <br \/>Davidson is 23-2 SU in its last 25 games at home<br \/>Davidson is 12-2 SU in its last 14 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Davidson&#8217;s last 5 games at home<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st2:City><st2:place>Butler<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> home to <st2:City><st2:place>Youngstown<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> State, Thursday, February 26<br \/><st1:Sn>Davidson<\/st1:Sn> home to UNC Greensboro, Wednesday, February 25<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 Butler Bulldogs and the Davidson Wildcats will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Belk Arena. Odds aren&#8217;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. Matt Howard went for 20 points and nine rebounds for Butler in its 63-60 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/butler-davidson-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Butler-Davidson Lines 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-3549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549","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=3549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}