{"id":3728,"date":"2009-03-11T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/depaul-providence-march-madness-bet\/"},"modified":"2009-03-11T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T15:01:00","slug":"depaul-providence-march-madness-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/depaul-providence-march-madness-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"DePaul-Providence March Madness Bet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p><font size=2 color=\"#333333\" face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>The DePaul Blue Demons and the Providence Friars will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at <\/span><\/font><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Madison<\/st1:PlaceName>  <st1:PlaceName>Square<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Garden<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p><font size=2 color=\"#333333\" face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betus.com\/ats\/10499\/sportsbook\/\">BetUs Sportsbook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodoglife.com\/welcome\/1861245\/sportsbook\"><span class=SpellE>Bodog<\/span> Life<\/a> have the Friars listed as 9\u00bd-point favorites versus the Blue Demons, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 143\u00bd. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=2 color=\"#333333\" face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Dar Tucker scored 17 points and grabbed eight rebounds to lead DePaul past <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Cincinnati<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 67-57 in the first round of the Big East Tournament on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p><font size=2 color=\"#333333\" face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>This game represents yet another against the spread winner from Mr. March, Grandmaster <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">sports handicapper<\/a> Joe Duffy of GodsTips. More details at <\/span><\/font><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><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p><span class=GramE><font size=2 color=\"#333333\" face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>DePaul cashed as 8-point underdogs as the game played under the 128-point total set by oddsmakers.<\/span><\/font><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><st1:City><st1:place><font size=2 color=\"#333333\" face=Arial><span   style='font-size:9.5pt'>Providence<\/span><\/font><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> was crushed 97-80 by Villanova on Thursday, as 10-point road underdogs. That game&#8217;s 177 points sailed OVER the posted total of 159. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p><span class=SpellE><font size=2 color=\"#333333\" face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Weyinmi<\/span><\/font><\/span> <span class=SpellE>Efejuku<\/span> collected a game-high 29 points with three rebounds and four assists. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p><font size=2 color=\"#333333\" face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Team records<span class=GramE>:<\/span><br \/> DePaul: 9-23 SU, 9-18 ATS <br \/> Providence: 18-12 SU, 10-16 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=2 color=\"#333333\" face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>DePaul most recently:<br \/> When playing on Wednesday are 5-5<br \/> After playing Cincinnati are 6-4<br \/> After a win are 5-5<\/p>\n<p> Providence most recently:<br \/> When playing on Wednesday are 4-6<br \/> After playing Villanova are 4-6<br \/> After a loss are 6-4<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=2 color=\"#333333\" face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>A few trends to consider:<br \/> The total has gone UNDER in 4 of DePaul&#8217;s last 5 games when playing Providence<br \/> DePaul is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing Providence<br \/> DePaul is 1-18 SU in its last 19 games <br \/> The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Providence&#8217;s last 5 games when playing DePaul<br \/> Providence is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing DePaul<br \/> The total has gone OVER in 11 of Providence&#8217;s last 16 games <br \/> Providence is 3-7 ATS in its last 10 games <\/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 DePaul Blue Demons and the Providence Friars will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at Madison Square Garden. BetUs Sportsbook and Bodog Life have the Friars listed as 9\u00bd-point favorites versus the Blue Demons, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 143\u00bd. Dar Tucker scored 17 points &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/depaul-providence-march-madness-bet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DePaul-Providence March Madness Bet<\/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-3728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728","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=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}