{"id":4027,"date":"2009-03-28T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/michigan-state-louisville-official-betting-picks-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-28T13:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T18:21:00","slug":"michigan-state-louisville-official-betting-picks-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/michigan-state-louisville-official-betting-picks-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State-Louisville Official Betting Picks 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 Michigan State-Louisville. Much like the Oklahoma-North Carolina game, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linetrackers.com\/\">sportsbooks<\/a> don&#8217;t seem to anticipate this Elite 8 game will be all that competitive.<\/span><\/font><\/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>, ranked first in customer satisfaction by <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> and <font color=black><span style='color:black'><a href=\"http:\/\/scoresoddspicks.com\/\">ScoresOddsPicks.com<\/a>, has the Cardinals a 6.5 point favorite. <\/span><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.commissionaccount.com\/processing\/clickthrgh.asp?btag=a_1206b_609\"><span class=SpellE>SportsBook<\/span><\/a> has the total at 138.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><font size=3   face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Michigan<\/span><\/font><\/st1:PlaceName>  <st1:PlaceType>State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> is 29-6 straight up and 18-13 to the number. <st1:City><st1:place>Louisville<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is 31-5 outright and 22-14 in the back pocket. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Spartans make 2.9 percent more of their shots than their opponent normally allow and they hold teams to 4.5 percent from the field below their normal average. The Cardinals shoot 3.5 percent better than their opponent normally allows, while holding teams to 5.1 percent less, an impressive number indeed. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>As far as spread betting trends (all records against the spread): the Spartans are 22-8 opponent winning percentage of .600 or greater. They are also a super impressive 20-8 in the NCAA Tournament. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Cardinals are 2-8 their last 10 <span class=SpellE>nonconference<\/span> and they are 0-5 to the Big 10. Yet, Rick <span class=SpellE>Pitino&#8217;s<\/span> boys are on a 39-19 overall run. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><span class=SpellE><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>MSU<\/span><\/font><\/span> has gone under 22-6 as an underdog of 6.5 or less, while the Ville has gone under 6-1 after scoring 100 or more <span class=GramE>points<\/span> last game. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>For winning picks, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/span><\/b><\/a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><\/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 Michigan State-Louisville. Much like the Oklahoma-North Carolina game, the sportsbooks don&#8217;t seem to anticipate this Elite 8 game will be all that competitive. BetUs Sportsbook, ranked first in customer satisfaction by OffshoreInsiders.com and ScoresOddsPicks.com, has the Cardinals a 6.5 point favorite. SportsBook has the total at 138. Michigan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/michigan-state-louisville-official-betting-picks-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Michigan State-Louisville Official Betting Picks 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-4027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027","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=4027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}