{"id":3713,"date":"2009-03-09T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/2009-big-10-odds-sees-michigan-state-the-favorites-xavier-in-a-10\/"},"modified":"2009-03-09T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T02:04:00","slug":"2009-big-10-odds-sees-michigan-state-the-favorites-xavier-in-a-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/2009-big-10-odds-sees-michigan-state-the-favorites-xavier-in-a-10\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 Big 10 Odds Sees Michigan State the Favorites; Xavier in A-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Las Vegas<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?PageID=101\">odds to win the Big Ten Conference<\/a> men&#8217;s basketball tournament are out. <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Michigan<\/st1:PlaceName>  <st1:PlaceType>State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> at +120 is the favorite. Brian Gould of <font color=black><span style='color:black'><a href=\"http:\/\/scoresoddspicks.com\/\">ScoresOddsPicks.com<\/a> <\/span><\/font>commented, &#8220;At one time Tom <span class=SpellE>Izzo<\/span> was considered the best March Madness coach by bettors,&#8221; though he&#8217;s fallen back to earth in recent years. <span class=SpellE>Izzo<\/span> is the Spartans head coach.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Purdue is next at +250, followed by <\/span><\/font><st1:State><st1:place>Illinois<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at +300, and <st1:place>Wisconsin<\/st1:place> +600. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Sports handicapper Bill Tanner, who is documented by the MasterLockLine as the all-time Big Ten expert, has predicted the <span class=SpellE>Illini<\/span> to come out on top. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Atlantic 10 Conference begins play Wednesday as well and Xavier is the overwhelming favorites. <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Dayton<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is next at +225 with <st1:State><st1:place>Rhode Island<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> and <st1:City><st1:place>Temple<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> each at +350. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Stevie Vincent, Senior Handicapper at <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font color=blue><span style='color:blue; font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">OffshoreInsiders.com<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/b> says the Hawks of St. Joseph&#8217;s are his favorite dark horse of any conference tournament. &#8220;They are skidding at the wrong time, but talent wise they are much closer to the team that started out at 7-1 in conference play.&#8221;<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The Hawks did annihilate Fordham to end the year and will get gain confidence with each win. &#8220;Watch them if they are not knocked out early,&#8221; insists Vincent. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>For conference tournament picks and predictions against the spread all sharp players will bet with <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font color=blue><span style='color:blue;font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">OffshoreInsiders.com<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/b><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\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 Las Vegas odds to win the Big Ten Conference men&#8217;s basketball tournament are out. Michigan State at +120 is the favorite. Brian Gould of ScoresOddsPicks.com commented, &#8220;At one time Tom Izzo was considered the best March Madness coach by bettors,&#8221; though he&#8217;s fallen back to earth in recent years. Izzo is the Spartans head &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/2009-big-10-odds-sees-michigan-state-the-favorites-xavier-in-a-10\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2009 Big 10 Odds Sees Michigan State the Favorites; Xavier in A-10<\/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-3713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713","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=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}