{"id":3924,"date":"2009-03-20T05:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-texas-duke-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-20T05:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T10:40:00","slug":"march-madness-texas-duke-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-texas-duke-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness: Texas-Duke Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fans at Greensboro Coliseum will be treated to a game between the Texas Longhorns and the Duke Blue Devils when they take their seats on Saturday. <br \/>Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <br \/>A.J. Abrams led Texas with 26 points as they defeated Minnesota 76-62 in the first round of the NCAA tournament on Thursday. Texas covered the 5-point spread, and the combined 138 points made it OVER the posted total of 127. <br \/>Dexter Pittman chipped in with 17 points in that contest. <br \/>Duke built up an early lead as they ran over Binghamton 86-62 on Thursday. Duke covered the 22-point spread, but the combined score made it OVER the posted total of 137. <br \/>Jon Scheyer had 15 points with four rebounds, and Gerald Henderson added 13 in the win. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>Texas: 23-11 SU, 12-18-1 ATS <br \/>Duke: 29-6 SU, 17-16-1 ATS <br \/>Texas most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 9-1<br \/>After a win are 5-5<\/p>\n<p>Duke most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 7-3<br \/>After a win are 7-3<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Texas is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games <br \/>Duke is 9-1 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 fans at Greensboro Coliseum will be treated to a game between the Texas Longhorns and the Duke Blue Devils when they take their seats on Saturday. Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. A.J. Abrams led Texas with 26 points as they defeated Minnesota &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-texas-duke-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">March Madness: Texas-Duke 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-3924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924","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=3924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}