{"id":4029,"date":"2009-03-28T23:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/elite-eight-oklahoma-north-carolina-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-28T23:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T04:45:00","slug":"elite-eight-oklahoma-north-carolina-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/elite-eight-oklahoma-north-carolina-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Elite Eight: Oklahoma-North Carolina Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oklahoma Sooners and the North Carolina Tar Heels will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at FedExForum in the fourth round of the NCAA Tournament. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Tar Heels listed as 7-point favorites versus the Sooners, while the game&#39;s total is sitting at 164. <br \/>Blake Griffin tossed in a game-high 30 points to lead Oklahoma to a convincing 84-71 victory over Syracuse in the Sweet 16 last time out. Oklahoma won the game as a pick&#39;em, and the 155 points made it OVER the posted total of 150.5. <br \/>Griffin grabbed 12 rebounds to complete a double-double performance for the Sooners, and Tony Crocker added 28 in this contest. <br \/>North Carolina reached the Elite Eight with a 98-77 victory over Gonzaga on Friday. North Carolina covered the 7.5-point spread, while the combined score made it OVER the posted total of 163. <br \/>Tyler Hansbrough had 24 points, and Ty Lawson added 17 in that win for the Tar Heels. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>Oklahoma: 30-5 SU, 17-13 ATS <br \/>North Carolina: 31-4 SU, 15-19 ATS <br \/>Oklahoma most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 6-4<br \/>After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 7-3<br \/>After playing Gonzaga are 1-0<br \/>After a win are 8-2<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Oklahoma is 18-4 SU in its last 22 games <br \/>North Carolina is 17-2 SU in its last 19 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 Oklahoma Sooners and the North Carolina Tar Heels will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at FedExForum in the fourth round of the NCAA Tournament. Oddsmakers currently have the Tar Heels listed as 7-point favorites versus the Sooners, while the game&#39;s total is sitting at 164. Blake &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/elite-eight-oklahoma-north-carolina-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elite Eight: Oklahoma-North Carolina 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-4029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029","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=4029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}