{"id":3884,"date":"2009-03-18T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/round-of-64-american-villanova-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-18T18:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T23:37:00","slug":"round-of-64-american-villanova-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/round-of-64-american-villanova-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Round of 64: American-Villanova Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Eagles and the Villanova Wildcats will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Wachovia Center in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Wildcats listed as 17-point favorites versus the Eagles, while the game&#39;s total is sitting at 129. <br \/>Villanova was defeated 69-55 by Louisville in the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament on Friday, as 4.5-point underdogs. That game&#39;s combined score fell UNDER the posted total of 140. <br \/>Dante Cunningham had 14 points and grabbed nine rebounds in the loss. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>American: 24-7 SU, 1-0 ATS <br \/>Villanova: 26-7 SU, 16-13 ATS <\/p>\n<p>Villanova most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 6-4<br \/>After playing Louisville are 4-1<br \/>After a loss are 9-1<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Villanova is 12-3 SU in its last 15 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 8 of Villanova&#39;s last 12 games <br \/>Villanova is 2-4 ATS in its last 6 games<\/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 American Eagles and the Villanova Wildcats will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Wachovia Center in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Oddsmakers currently have the Wildcats listed as 17-point favorites versus the Eagles, while the game&#39;s total is sitting at 129. Villanova was defeated 69-55 by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/round-of-64-american-villanova-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Round of 64: American-Villanova 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-3884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884","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=3884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}