{"id":3901,"date":"2009-03-19T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-east-tennessee-state-pittsburgh-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-19T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T16:36:00","slug":"march-madness-east-tennessee-state-pittsburgh-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-east-tennessee-state-pittsburgh-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness: East Tennessee State-Pittsburgh Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The East Tennessee State Buccaneers and the Pittsburgh Panthers will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Dayton Arena in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Panthers listed as 20-point favorites versus the Buccaneers, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. <br \/>Pittsburgh was upset 74-60 by West Virginia in the quarterfinals of the Big East Tournament last Thursday. Oddsmakers had Pittsburgh as 4-point favorites in that contest, while the 134 points went UNDER the posted total of 136. <br \/>DeJuan Blair had 14 points and five rebounds on the day. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>East Tennessee State: 23-10 SU, 2-1 ATS <br \/>Pittsburgh: 28-4 SU, 17-9 ATS <\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh most recently:<br \/>When playing on Friday are 8-2<br \/>After playing West Virginia are 6-4<br \/>After a loss are 8-2<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Pittsburgh is 21-4 SU in its last 25 games <br \/>Pittsburgh is 7-3 ATS in its last 10 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 East Tennessee State Buccaneers and the Pittsburgh Panthers will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Dayton Arena in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Oddsmakers currently have the Panthers listed as 20-point favorites versus the Buccaneers, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-east-tennessee-state-pittsburgh-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">March Madness: East Tennessee State-Pittsburgh 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-3901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901","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=3901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}