{"id":3787,"date":"2009-03-13T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/big-east-betting-its-all-but-locked-up\/"},"modified":"2009-03-13T10:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T15:38:00","slug":"big-east-betting-its-all-but-locked-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/big-east-betting-its-all-but-locked-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Big East Betting, It&#8217;s All But Locked Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/\" title=\"March Madness betting\" id=cowj>March Madness betting<\/a>, there are many at-large bids still yet to be decided as conference tournament play rages on, but the Big East may have a clearer picture than any other conference. As many as seven teams probably have berths locked up, so seeding is the only thing really left to figure out.<\/p>\n<p> Not only does the Big East have plenty of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/\" title=\"March Madness betting\" id=ab1q>March Madness betting<\/a> seeds locked up, it has some major contenders; UConn and Pittsburgh are among the top-three schools in the nation and their rivalry strengthens with every <span class=SpellE>faceoff<\/span>. Could one of them dethrone <\/span><\/font><st1:State><st1:place>North   Carolina<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> in the Final Four? Villanova and <st1:City><st1:place>Louisville<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> can&#8217;t be forgotten either.<\/p>\n<p> The most exciting story heading into Selection Sunday has to be <st1:City><st1:place>Syracuse<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>&#8216;s unbelievable win over UConn in <i><span style='font-style:italic'>six overtimes <\/span><\/i>at <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Madison<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName>Square<\/st1:PlaceName>  <st1:PlaceType>Garden<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> Thursday night. If <st1:City><st1:place>Syracuse<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>&#8216;s bid for a high seed in March Madness betting was in doubt before that legendary clash, that may have changed. The Orangemen were already ranked 18<sup>th<\/sup> in the nation and showed they could beat a top-three team with their overtime thriller; do they not deserve at least a three seed?<\/p>\n<p> The only team whose fate wasn&#8217;t quite decided in March Madness betting entering the Big East tournament was probably <st1:City><st1:place>Providence<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>. It got pummeled by Louisville in the first round of the tourney and, considering it went 2-8 against <span class=SpellE>RPI<\/span> top-50 foes and was repeatedly blown out by its ranked divisional peers on the road this season, Providence&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/\" title=\"March Madness betting\" id=l1t8>March Madness betting<\/a> dream appears over for 2009.\\<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>For winning picks through the Big Dance, it&#8217;s always <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><\/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>In March Madness betting, there are many at-large bids still yet to be decided as conference tournament play rages on, but the Big East may have a clearer picture than any other conference. As many as seven teams probably have berths locked up, so seeding is the only thing really left to figure out. Not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/big-east-betting-its-all-but-locked-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big East Betting, It&#8217;s All But Locked Up<\/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-3787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787","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=3787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}