{"id":3907,"date":"2009-03-19T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-arizona-utah-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-19T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T00:37:00","slug":"march-madness-arizona-utah-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-arizona-utah-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness: Arizona-Utah Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Wildcats and the Utah Utes will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at American Airlines Arena in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Utes listed as 1-point favorites versus the Wildcats, while the game&#39;s total is sitting at 134. <br \/>Jordan Hill had 20 points and 13 boards for Arizona in its 68-56 loss to Arizona State in the Pac-10 Tournament quarterfinals last Thursday. <br \/>Arizona State covered as 3-point favorites as the game played under the 129.5-point total listed by oddsmakers. <br \/>Utah claimed the top spot in the Mountain West Conference with a 52-50 victory over San Diego State in the MWC title game at the Thomas &amp; Mack Center on Saturday. <br \/>Utah covered as a 1-point underdog while the final score played under the 123.5-point total. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>Arizona: 19-13 SU, 18-14 ATS <br \/>Utah: 24-9 SU, 20-12 ATS <br \/>Arizona most recently:<br \/>When playing on Friday are 7-3<br \/>After playing Arizona State are 7-3<br \/>After a loss are 4-6<\/p>\n<p>Utah most recently:<br \/>When playing on Friday are 8-2<br \/>After playing San Diego State are 4-6<br \/>After a win are 9-1<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 7 of Arizona&#39;s last 9 games <br \/>Arizona is 9-4 ATS in its last 13 games <br \/>Arizona is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Utah&#39;s last 7 games <br \/>Utah is 12-2 SU in its last 14 games <br \/>Utah is 8-4 ATS in its last 12 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 Arizona Wildcats and the Utah Utes will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at American Airlines Arena in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Oddsmakers currently have the Utes listed as 1-point favorites versus the Wildcats, while the game&#39;s total is sitting at 134. Jordan Hill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-arizona-utah-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">March Madness: Arizona-Utah 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-3907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907","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=3907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}