{"id":3916,"date":"2009-03-19T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-baylor-virginia-tech-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-19T23:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T04:05:00","slug":"march-madness-baylor-virginia-tech-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-baylor-virginia-tech-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness: Baylor-Virginia Tech Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Baylor Bears and the Virginia Tech Hokies will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Cassell Coliseum in the second round of the National Invitational Tournament. <br \/>Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <br \/>LaceDarius Dunn and Kevin Rogers each scored 20 points to lift Baylor past Georgetown 74-72 in the first round of the National Invitational Tournament on Wednesday night. <br \/>Baylor couldn&#39;t cover as 3-point home favorites as the teams played over the 137.5-point total posted by oddsmakers. <br \/>A.D. Vassallo went for 33 points and 12 rebounds to lead Virginia Tech past Duquesne 116-108 in double overtime in the first round of the National Invitational Tournament on Wednesday night. <br \/>The game resulted in a push with Virginia Tech as 8-point home favorites as the teams played over the 151-point total set by oddsmakers. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>Baylor: 21-14 SU, 10-16-1 ATS <br \/>Virginia Tech: 19-14 SU, 12-15-1 ATS <br \/>Baylor most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 3-7<br \/>After a win are 4-6<\/p>\n<p>Virginia Tech most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 7-3<br \/>After playing Duquesne are 8-2<br \/>After a win are 5-5<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Baylor&#39;s last 7 games on the road<br \/>Baylor is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>Baylor is 3-7 SU in its last 10 games on the road<br \/>Baylor is 3-7 ATS in its last 10 games on the road<br \/>Virginia Tech is 18-6 SU in its last 24 games at home<br \/>Virginia Tech is 3-7 SU 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 Baylor Bears and the Virginia Tech Hokies will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Cassell Coliseum in the second round of the National Invitational Tournament. Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. LaceDarius Dunn and Kevin Rogers each &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-baylor-virginia-tech-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">March Madness: Baylor-Virginia Tech Odds 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-3916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916","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=3916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}