{"id":3995,"date":"2009-03-26T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-kansas-michigan-state-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-26T06:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T11:49:00","slug":"march-madness-kansas-michigan-state-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-kansas-michigan-state-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness: Kansas-Michigan State Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas Jayhawks and the Michigan State Spartans will both be gunning for a victory on Friday when they meet at Lucas Oil Stadium in the third round of the NCAA Tournament. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Spartans listed as 1&#189;-point favorites versus the Jayhawks, while the game&#39;s total is sitting at 138. <br \/>Kansas knocked off Dayton 60-43 as an 8-point favorite in the second round on Sunday. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (134). <br \/>Sherron Collins scored a game-high 25 points for Kansas, while Cole Aldrich added 13 points, 20 rebounds and 10 blocks in the win. <br \/>Michigan State defeated USC 74-69 as a 4-point favorite in the second round on Sunday. The combined score went OVER the posted over\/under total (129.5). <br \/>Travis Walton scored 18 points for the Spartans and Durrell Summers added 11 points and eight rebounds in the win. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>Kansas: 27-7 SU, 20-8-1 ATS <br \/>Michigan State: 28-6 SU, 18-13 ATS <br \/>Kansas most recently:<br \/>When playing on Friday are 9-1<br \/>After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n<p>Michigan State most recently:<br \/>When playing on Friday are 6-4<br \/>After a win are 8-2<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Kansas is 16-3 SU in its last 19 games <br \/>Michigan State is 8-1 SU in its last 9 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 Kansas Jayhawks and the Michigan State Spartans will both be gunning for a victory on Friday when they meet at Lucas Oil Stadium in the third round of the NCAA Tournament. Oddsmakers currently have the Spartans listed as 1&#189;-point favorites versus the Jayhawks, while the game&#39;s total is sitting at 138. Kansas knocked off &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-kansas-michigan-state-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">March Madness: Kansas-Michigan State 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-3995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995","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=3995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}