{"id":4002,"date":"2009-03-26T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/louisville-arizona-official-sweet-16-betting-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-26T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T01:59:00","slug":"louisville-arizona-official-sweet-16-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/louisville-arizona-official-sweet-16-betting-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisville-Arizona Official Sweet 16 Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Here is the official betting preview of the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 matchup between <\/span><\/font><st1:State><st1:place>Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> and <st1:City><st1:place>Louisville<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Wildcats come into this game at 21-13 straight up and 19-14 to the number. They have covered 14 of their last 20 contests. <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Louisville<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is 30-5 outright and 21-14 to the Vegas odds. <st1:City><st1:place>Louisville<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> though is 0-2 against the spread in the Big Dance, though they enter with a 12-game straight up winning streak.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><st1:State><st1:place><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span   style='font-size:12.0pt'>Arizona<\/span><\/font><\/st1:place><\/st1:State> is especially efficient on offense shooting an outstanding 47.7 percent versus teams normally allowing 43.1. This includes 39.4 percent from beyond the arc, which is 4.6 percent more than their opponents normally allow. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Both ratios are better than <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Louisville<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>. However points are tough to come by to the No. 1 seeded Cards. They allow just 61.7 points per game to teams normally getting 61.7 on 39.4 percent shooting to 44.5<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betus.com\/ats\/10499\/sportsbook\/\">BetUs Sportsbook<\/a>, rated No. 1 of all approved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linetrackers.com\/\">sportsbooks<\/a> based on client satisfaction has the Cardinals a nine point favorite with a total of 139. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Some spread betting trends, all against the spread: The Wildcats are 9-2 opponent winning percentage of .600 or greater. The Cards are 16-7 overall their last 23.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Who covers this game? The best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">sports handicappers<\/a> are found daily, including the upcoming MLB betting, at <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'><font color=blue><span style='color:blue;font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">OffshoreInsiders.com<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/b><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\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>Here is the official betting preview of the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 matchup between Arizona and Louisville. The Wildcats come into this game at 21-13 straight up and 19-14 to the number. They have covered 14 of their last 20 contests. Louisville is 30-5 outright and 21-14 to the Vegas odds. Louisville though is 0-2 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/louisville-arizona-official-sweet-16-betting-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Louisville-Arizona Official Sweet 16 Betting 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-4002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002","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=4002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}