{"id":3737,"date":"2009-03-12T05:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/west-virginia-pittsburgh-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-12T05:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T10:43:00","slug":"west-virginia-pittsburgh-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/west-virginia-pittsburgh-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia-Pittsburgh Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The West Virginia Mountaineers and the Pittsburgh Panthers will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Madison Square Garden. <br \/>Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <br \/>West Virginia held Notre Dame to just 18 points in the first half, as they ran away with a 74-62 victory in the second round of the Big East Tournament on Wednesday. West Virginia covered the 6-point spread, while the 136 points went UNDER the posted total of 140. <br \/>Alex Ruoff dropped a team-high 25 points to lead the way, and Da&#39;Sean Butler added 20 points. <br \/>Thanks to 31 points and 10 boards from Sam Young, Pitt knocked off UConn 70-60 on Saturday afternoon. <br \/>The Panthers covered the 4-point spread, while the final score played UNDER the posted total of 140.5. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>West Virginia: 22-10 SU, 15-14 ATS <br \/>Pittsburgh: 28-3 SU, 17-8 ATS <br \/>West Virginia most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 3-7<br \/>After playing Notre Dame are 6-4<br \/>After a win are 5-5<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 9-1<br \/>After playing Connecticut are 8-2<br \/>After a win are 8-2<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>West Virginia is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 6 of West Virginia&#39;s last 9 games when playing Pittsburgh<br \/>West Virginia is 5-13-1 ATS in its last 19 games when playing Pittsburgh<br \/>West Virginia is 1-6 SU in its last 7 games when playing Pittsburgh<br \/>Pittsburgh is 10-1 SU in its last 11 games <br \/>Pittsburgh is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing West Virginia<br \/>Pittsburgh is 7-2 ATS in its last 9 games <br \/>Pittsburgh is 5-2 ATS in its last 7 games when playing West Virginia<\/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 West Virginia Mountaineers and the Pittsburgh Panthers will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Madison Square Garden. Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. West Virginia held Notre Dame to just 18 points in the first half, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/west-virginia-pittsburgh-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">West Virginia-Pittsburgh 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-3737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737","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=3737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}