{"id":3662,"date":"2009-03-05T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/providence-villanova-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T08:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T13:05:00","slug":"providence-villanova-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/providence-villanova-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Providence-Villanova Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Providence Friars and the Villanova Wildcats will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Villanova Pavilion. <br \/>Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <br \/>Providence defeated Rutgers 73-66 as a 3.5-point favorite on Sunday. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (147.5). <br \/>Weyinmi Efejuku scored a game-high 28 points for Providence and Jeff Xavier added 13 points in the win. <br \/>Scottie Reynolds scored 23 points and grabbed six rebounds, as Villanova took out Notre Dame 77-60 on Monday night. <br \/>Villanova cashed as 3.5-point road underdogs as the game played under the 159-point total set by oddsmakers. <br \/>Current streak:<br \/>Providence has won 2 straight games.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>Providence: 18-11 SU, 10-15 ATS <br \/>Villanova: 24-6 SU, 15-11 ATS <br \/>Providence most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 3-7<br \/>After playing Rutgers are 4-6<br \/>After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n<p>Villanova most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 7-3<br \/>After playing Notre Dame are 6-4<br \/>After a win are 7-3<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 6 of Providence&#39;s last 7 games when playing Villanova<br \/>Providence is 5-2 ATS in its last 7 games when playing on the road against Villanova<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 7 of Providence&#39;s last 10 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 10 of Providence&#39;s last 15 games <br \/>Villanova is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Providence<br \/>Villanova is 19-3 SU in its last 22 games at home<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 6 of Villanova&#39;s last 7 games when playing Providence<br \/>Villanova is 10-2 SU in its last 12 games<\/p>\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 Providence Friars and the Villanova Wildcats will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Villanova Pavilion. Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. Providence defeated Rutgers 73-66 as a 3.5-point favorite on Sunday. The combined score fell &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/providence-villanova-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Providence-Villanova Odds 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-3662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662","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=3662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}