{"id":4054,"date":"2009-04-02T06:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/march-madness-baylor-penn-state-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-04-02T06:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T11:56:00","slug":"march-madness-baylor-penn-state-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/march-madness-baylor-penn-state-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness: Baylor-Penn State Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Baylor Bears and the Penn State Nittany Lions will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Madison Square Garden in the championship game of the National Invitational Tournament. <br \/>Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <br \/>Curtis Jerrells went for 25 points and eight assists, as Baylor ran past San Diego State 76-62 in the semifinals on Tuesday night. <br \/>Baylor cashed as 1-point favorites as the game played over the 136-point total listed by oddsmakers. <br \/>Talor Battle scored 17 points to lead Penn State over Notre Dame 67-59 in the semifinals on Tuesday night. <br \/>Penn State cashed as 3.5-point underdogs as the teams played under the 138-point total set by sportsbooks. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>Baylor: 24-14 SU, 13-16-1 ATS <br \/>Penn State: 26-11 SU, 18-12 ATS <br \/>Baylor most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 4-6<br \/>After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Penn State most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 4-6<br \/>After playing Notre Dame are 1-0<br \/>After a win are 6-4<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Baylor is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games <br \/>Penn State is 5-1 SU in its last 6 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 Baylor Bears and the Penn State Nittany Lions will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Madison Square Garden in the championship game of the National Invitational Tournament. Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. Curtis Jerrells went for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/march-madness-baylor-penn-state-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">March Madness: Baylor-Penn 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-4054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054","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=4054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}