{"id":3824,"date":"2009-03-17T05:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/nit-unlv-kentucky-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T05:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T10:06:00","slug":"nit-unlv-kentucky-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/nit-unlv-kentucky-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"NIT: UNLV-Kentucky Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UNLV Rebels and the Kentucky Wildcats will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Rupp Arena in the first round of the National Invitational Tournament. <br \/>Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <br \/>Wink Adams dropped 26 points to lead UNLV in its 71-57 loss to San Diego State in the Mountain West Tournament quarterfinals on Thursday. <br \/>San Diego State covered as 4-point favorites as the game played over the 124.5-point total posted by oddsmakers. <br \/>Kentucky fell 67-58 to LSU in the quarterfinals of the SEC Tournament on Friday, as 1-point underdogs. The 125 points fell well UNDER the posted total of 140. <br \/>Patrick Patterson poured in 15 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for a double-double in that loss. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>UNLV: 21-10 SU, 12-16 ATS <br \/>Kentucky: 20-13 SU, 13-14-1 ATS <br \/>UNLV most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 8-2<br \/>After playing San Diego State are 8-2<br \/>After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 7-3<br \/>After playing LSU are 6-4<br \/>After a loss are 5-5<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of UNLV&#39;s last 5 games on the road<br \/>UNLV is 16-8 SU in its last 24 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of UNLV&#39;s last 6 games <br \/>UNLV is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games <br \/>Kentucky is 15-5 SU in its last 20 games at home<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Kentucky&#39;s last 7 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Kentucky&#39;s last 10 games at home<br \/>Kentucky is 2-6 ATS in its last 8 games at home<\/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 UNLV Rebels and the Kentucky Wildcats will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Rupp Arena in the first round of the National Invitational Tournament. Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. Wink Adams dropped 26 points &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/nit-unlv-kentucky-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NIT: UNLV-Kentucky 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-3824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824","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=3824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}