{"id":3988,"date":"2009-03-25T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-missouri-memphis-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-25T20:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T01:54:00","slug":"march-madness-missouri-memphis-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-missouri-memphis-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness: Missouri-Memphis Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Missouri Tigers and the Memphis Tigers will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Cardinal Stadium in the third round of the NCAA Tournament. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Tigers listed as 5-point favorites versus the Tigers, while the game&#39;s total is sitting at 141. <br \/>Missouri defeated Marquette 83-79 as a 3-point favorite in the second round on Sunday. The combined score went OVER the posted over\/under total (151). <br \/>Leo Lyons netted 18 points for Missouri and Kim English deposited 17 points in the win. <br \/>Tyreke Evans scored 19 points and Memphis was up by 20 points at the half in a 89-70 romp of Maryland in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday. <br \/>The Tigers covered the 10-point spread, while the final score played OVER the day&#39;s posted total of 131. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>Missouri: 30-6 SU, 19-9-1 ATS <br \/>Memphis: 33-3 SU, 21-12-2 ATS <br \/>Missouri most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 3-7<br \/>After a win are 8-2<\/p>\n<p>Memphis most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 8-2<br \/>After playing Maryland are 1-0<br \/>After a win are 10-0<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Missouri is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>Memphis is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Memphis&#39;s last 10 games <br \/>Memphis is 13-5 ATS in its last 18 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 Missouri Tigers and the Memphis Tigers will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Cardinal Stadium in the third round of the NCAA Tournament. Oddsmakers currently have the Tigers listed as 5-point favorites versus the Tigers, while the game&#39;s total is sitting at 141. Missouri defeated Marquette 83-79 as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-missouri-memphis-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">March Madness: Missouri-Memphis 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-3988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988","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=3988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}