{"id":3897,"date":"2009-03-19T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/ncaa-tournament-free-picks-maryland-california-lsu-butler\/"},"modified":"2009-03-19T10:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T15:05:00","slug":"ncaa-tournament-free-picks-maryland-california-lsu-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/ncaa-tournament-free-picks-maryland-california-lsu-butler\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Tournament Free Picks: Maryland-California, LSU-Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here are free premium picks from the two best college basketball handicappers ever: Joe Duffy’s GodsTips the winningest in history based on units won and forensic sports handicapping<\/a> founder Stevie Vincent tops in winning percentage. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

The first of from the Center of the Handicapping Universe GodsTips.<\/span><\/font><\/span> \u00a0<\/span>They say go with California<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> over Maryland<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>. Bodog<\/span> Life<\/a> has the Bears laying 1.5 and BetUs Sportsbook<\/a> at -2. <\/p>\n

It comes down to matchups<\/span>. <\/span><\/font>Maryland<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> is outstanding a pressure defense and forcing turnovers but they go against the tremendous guard play of Cali<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Patrick Christopher and Theo Robertson, Jerome Randle heads up the most accurate three-point shooting team in the country. <\/span><\/font>California<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has connected on 43.4 percent of its three-point attempts. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

California<\/span><\/font><\/st1:place><\/st1:State> plays their best against the best. The Golden Bears lost twice to middling Oregon<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> (13-17), but also winning twice over conference champion Washington (25-8). <\/o:p><\/p>\n

The Golden Bears are just what <\/span><\/font>Maryland<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> does not need, a guard oriented team that can handle the ball and beat the pressure by hitting from long range.<\/p>\n

For the complete list of the top sports picks for March Madness, check out this rundown<\/a>.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Now from Stevie Vincent, the future of sports betting: go with <\/span><\/font>Butler<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> over LSU. Sports Betting Sportsbook<\/a> has LSU -2. <\/p>\n

Here is why: <\/span><\/font>Butler<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 13-1 as underdog, 17-5 nonconference<\/span>, LSU 19-39 as a favorite, 1-8 neutral as a favorite. All records are against the spread. <\/p>\n

Again, it’s OffshoreInsiders.com<\/span><\/b><\/a> with every winning spread pick. \u00a0<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Here are free premium picks from the two best college basketball handicappers ever: Joe Duffy’s GodsTips the winningest in history based on units won and forensic sports handicapping founder Stevie Vincent tops in winning percentage. The first of from the Center of the Handicapping Universe GodsTips. \u00a0They say go with California over Maryland. Bodog Life … Continue reading NCAA Tournament Free Picks: Maryland-California, LSU-Butler<\/span> →<\/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-3897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897","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=3897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}