{"id":3944,"date":"2009-03-21T07:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-usc-michigan-state-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-21T07:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T12:38:00","slug":"march-madness-usc-michigan-state-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-usc-michigan-state-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness: USC-Michigan State Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USC Trojans and the Michigan State Spartans will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at Hubert Humphrey Metrodome in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. <br \/>Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <br \/>USC dominated the second half and ran away with a 72-55 victory over Boston College on Friday night. USC covered the 2.5-point spread, and the 127 points went UNDER the posted total of 137.5. <br \/>Taj Gibson shot 10-for-10 from the field with a game-high 24 points, and Dwight Lewis added 20 in the win. <br \/>Michigan State scored 41 points in the first half as they easily got past Robert Morris 77-62 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday. Michigan State could not cover the 16-point spread, but the combined score made it OVER the posted total of 133.5. <br \/>Goran Sutton had 11 points with 17 rebounds for a double-double. Raymar Morgan and Draymond Green each had 16 points in that win. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>USC: 22-12 SU, 18-14 ATS <br \/>Michigan State: 27-6 SU, 16-14 ATS <br \/>USC most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 6-4<br \/>After playing Boston College are 1-0<br \/>After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n<p>Michigan State most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 7-3<br \/>After a win are 7-3<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>USC is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>Michigan State is 7-1 SU in its last 8 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 USC Trojans and the Michigan State Spartans will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at Hubert Humphrey Metrodome in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. USC dominated the second &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-usc-michigan-state-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">March Madness: USC-Michigan State 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-3944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944","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=3944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}