{"id":3738,"date":"2009-03-12T05:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/syracuse-connecticut-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-12T05:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T10:51:00","slug":"syracuse-connecticut-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/syracuse-connecticut-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Syracuse-Connecticut Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Syracuse Orange and the Connecticut Huskies will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle 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 \/>Syracuse blew open a close game with 53 points in the second half en route to a 89-74 victory over Seton Hall in the second-round of the Big East Tournament on Wednesday. Syracuse covered the 7-point spread, and the combined score made it OVER the posted total of 153. <br \/>Jonny Flynn finished with 19 points and dished out 12 assists, while Eric Devendorf also had 19 points in that win. <br \/>A.J. Price led UConn with 19 points and Hasheem Thabeet had 14 points, 13 rebounds and five blocks in a 70-60 loss to Pitt on Saturday afternoon. <br \/>The Huskies did not cover the 4-point spread, while the final score played UNDER the posted total of 140.5. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>Syracuse: 24-8 SU, 14-14 ATS <br \/>Connecticut: 27-3 SU, 13-13 ATS <br \/>Syracuse most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 9-1<br \/>After playing Seton Hall are 7-3<br \/>After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 8-2<br \/>After playing Pittsburgh are 8-2<br \/>After a loss are 8-2<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Syracuse is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Syracuse&#39;s last 5 games when playing Connecticut<br \/>Syracuse is 5-10 SU in its last 15 games when playing Connecticut<br \/>Syracuse is 5-10 ATS in its last 15 games when playing Connecticut<br \/>Connecticut is 16-2 SU in its last 18 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Connecticut&#39;s last 5 games when playing Syracuse<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Connecticut&#39;s last 9 games <br \/>Connecticut is 10-5 SU in its last 15 games when playing Syracuse<\/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 Syracuse Orange and the Connecticut Huskies will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Madison Square Garden. Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. Syracuse blew open a close game with 53 points in the second half &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/syracuse-connecticut-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Syracuse-Connecticut 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-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","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=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}