{"id":3939,"date":"2009-03-21T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-wisconsin-xavier-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-21T07:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T12:12:00","slug":"march-madness-wisconsin-xavier-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-wisconsin-xavier-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness: Wisconsin-Xavier Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wisconsin Badgers and the Xavier Musketeers will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Taco Bell Arena. <br \/>Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <br \/>Wisconsin dumped Florida State with a 61-59 OT victory in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday, as 2.5-point underdogs. That game&#39;s 120 points went UNDER the posted total of 122. <br \/>Jason Bohannon led the way with 16 points and four rebounds. <br \/>Xavier took control in the second half and ran past Portland State 77-59 in the first rouns of the NCAA Tournament on Friday. Xavier covered the 10.5-point spread, while the 136 points made it OVER the posted total of 135. <br \/>C.J. Anderson had 14 points for Xavier, while Derrick Brown, Dante Jackson, and B.J. Raymond had 13 points apiece in the win. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>Wisconsin: 20-12 SU, 13-16-1 ATS <br \/>Xavier: 26-7 SU, 16-12-3 ATS <br \/>Wisconsin most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 8-2<br \/>After playing Florida State are 1-0<br \/>After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Xavier most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 6-4<br \/>After a win are 6-4<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Wisconsin is 8-3 SU in its last 11 games <br \/>Xavier is 17-5 SU in its last 22 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 Wisconsin Badgers and the Xavier Musketeers will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Taco Bell Arena. Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. Wisconsin dumped Florida State with a 61-59 OT victory in the first round of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-wisconsin-xavier-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">March Madness: Wisconsin-Xavier 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-3939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939","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=3939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}