{"id":3917,"date":"2009-03-20T05:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-ucla-villanova-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-20T05:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T10:25:00","slug":"march-madness-ucla-villanova-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-ucla-villanova-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness: UCLA-Villanova Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UCLA Bruins and the Villanova Wildcats will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Wachovia Center. <br \/>Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <br \/>UCLA was outplayed in the second half, but managed to sneak out a 65-64 victory over VCU in the first round of the NCAA tournament on Saturday. UCLA failed to cover the 8-point spread, while the 129 points fell UNDER the posted total of 137. <br \/>Josh Shipp led the way with 16 points and eight rebounds. <br \/>Villanova trailed by 10 points at halftime, but stormed back to defeat American University 80-67 on Thursday in the opening-round of the NCAA tournament. Villanova failed to cover the 15-point spread, but the 147 points sailed OVER the posted total of 128. <br \/>Dwayne Anderson had 25 points with nine rebounds and Dante Cunningham also had 25 in the win. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>UCLA: 26-8 SU, 16-15-2 ATS <br \/>Villanova: 27-7 SU, 16-14 ATS <br \/>UCLA most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 4-6<br \/>After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n<p>Villanova most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 6-4<br \/>After a win are 7-3<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>UCLA is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games <br \/>Villanova is 13-3 SU in its last 16 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 UCLA Bruins and the Villanova Wildcats will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Wachovia Center. Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. UCLA was outplayed in the second half, but managed to sneak out a 65-64 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-ucla-villanova-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">March Madness: UCLA-Villanova 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-3917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3917","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=3917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}