{"id":3785,"date":"2009-03-13T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/west-virginia-syracuse-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-13T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T12:30:00","slug":"west-virginia-syracuse-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/west-virginia-syracuse-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia-Syracuse Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The West Virginia Mountaineers and the Syracuse Orange will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday 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 \/>Four players reached double-figures as West Virginia upset Pittsburgh 74-60 in the quarterfinals of the Big East Tournament on Thursday, as 4-point underdogs. That game&#39;s 134 points went UNDER the posted total of 136.<br \/>Devin Ebanks tossed in 20 points and hauled down seven rebounds, and Alex Ruoff collected 17 points.<br \/>It took six overtimes before things got settled, as Syracuse defeated Connecticut 127-117 in the quarterfinals of the Big East Tournament on Thursday. Syracuse won the game as a 5.5-point underdog, while the combined score fell UNDER the posted total of 145.5.<br \/>Jonny Flynn led the way with 34 points and 11 assists. Paul Harris added 29 points and Eric Devendorf collected 22 points in the win.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>West Virginia: 23-10 SU, 16-14 ATS <br \/>Syracuse: 25-8 SU, 15-14 ATS <br \/>West Virginia most recently:<br \/>When playing on Friday are 7-3<br \/>After playing Pittsburgh are 9-1<br \/>After a win are 5-5<\/p>\n<p>Syracuse most recently:<br \/>When playing on Friday are 7-3<br \/>After playing Connecticut are 7-3<br \/>After a win are 6-4<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>West Virginia is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>West Virginia is 2-6 ATS in its last 8 games when playing Syracuse<br \/>West Virginia is 1-9 SU in its last 10 games when playing Syracuse<br \/>Syracuse is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>Syracuse is 9-1 SU in its last 10 games when playing West Virginia<br \/>Syracuse is 6-2 ATS in its last 8 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 Syracuse Orange will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday 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.Four players reached double-figures as West Virginia upset Pittsburgh 74-60 in the quarterfinals of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/west-virginia-syracuse-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">West Virginia-Syracuse 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-3785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785","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=3785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}