{"id":3710,"date":"2009-03-09T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/2009-big-east-tournament-odds-pittsburgh-louisville-and-uconn-the-favorites\/"},"modified":"2009-03-09T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T19:39:00","slug":"2009-big-east-tournament-odds-pittsburgh-louisville-and-uconn-the-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/2009-big-east-tournament-odds-pittsburgh-louisville-and-uconn-the-favorites\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 Big East Tournament Odds: Pittsburgh, Louisville, and UConn the Favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 2009 Big East Tournament Vegas odds<\/a> are out. The big mystery was who would be tapped as the favorite: <\/span><\/font>Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Louisville<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, or Connecticut<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>? The answer is the Panthers, dubbed by Tom Murray of ScoresOddsPicks.com<\/a> as the “Most talented team in the nation.” <\/span><\/font>Pittsburgh<\/span><\/font><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is +175, while the team they twice dethroned as No. 1 in the nation UConn is +225. <\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Squeezing in between the two is <\/span><\/font>Louisville<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at +200. The Cardinals were the regular season champs. Which team is most likely to spoil it for the Big 3? The oddsmakers have Villanova at +600. Syracuse<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, a team that likely already has clinched an at large bid is +1000. <\/p>\n

For those who believe motivation is a positive factor, <\/span><\/font>Providence<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is +2000 and is a team that must win several games in the tournament to play themselves in. Marquette<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at +1500 is likely in, but a first-round exit could be costly. <\/p>\n

Bob Warner of the basketball betting blog<\/span> Lines-Maker.com<\/span><\/font><\/a> says that the Big East may have the best long shot of any conference insofar as winning the postseason tournament. “<\/span><\/font>Georgetown<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has underachieved all year long but has the talent to get hot at the right time,” insists Warner. Bodog<\/span><\/font><\/span> Life<\/span><\/font><\/a> has the Hoyas<\/span> at +3000 to win the Big East Tournament. <\/p>\n

For the winning against the spread Big East Tournament picks check out the champions handicappers at OffshoreInsiders.com<\/span><\/font><\/a><\/span><\/font><\/b>\u00a0 <\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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The 2009 Big East Tournament Vegas odds are out. The big mystery was who would be tapped as the favorite: Pittsburgh, Louisville, or Connecticut? The answer is the Panthers, dubbed by Tom Murray of ScoresOddsPicks.com as the “Most talented team in the nation.” Pittsburgh is +175, while the team they twice dethroned as No. 1 … Continue reading 2009 Big East Tournament Odds: Pittsburgh, Louisville, and UConn the Favorites<\/span> →<\/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-3710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710","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=3710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}