{"id":3885,"date":"2009-03-18T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/round-of-64-akron-gonzaga-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-18T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T23:39:00","slug":"round-of-64-akron-gonzaga-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/round-of-64-akron-gonzaga-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Round of 64: Akron-Gonzaga Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Akron Zips and the Gonzaga Bulldogs will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Rose Garden in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Bulldogs listed as 13-point favorites versus the Zips, while the game&#39;s total is sitting at 133. <br \/>Josh Heytvelt scored 17 points and grabbed six rebounds, as Gonzaga ripped St. Mary&#39;s 83-58 to win the West Coast Conference championship last Monday night. <br \/>Gonzaga won as 6.5-point favorites as the game played over the 138.5-point total listed by oddsmakers. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>Akron: 23-12 SU, 17-13 ATS <br \/>Gonzaga: 26-5 SU, 16-12 ATS <br \/>Akron most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 7-3<br \/>After playing Buffalo are 8-2<br \/>After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Gonzaga most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 8-2<br \/>After playing Saint Mary&#39;s are 9-1<br \/>After a win are 9-1<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Akron is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games <br \/>Akron is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games <br \/>Gonzaga is 5-0 SU in its last 5 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 Akron Zips and the Gonzaga Bulldogs will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Rose Garden in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Oddsmakers currently have the Bulldogs listed as 13-point favorites versus the Zips, while the game&#39;s total is sitting at 133. Josh Heytvelt scored 17 points &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/round-of-64-akron-gonzaga-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Round of 64: Akron-Gonzaga 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-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885","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=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}