{"id":4059,"date":"2009-04-02T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/nit-finals-headlines-beginning-of-final-4-weekend-betting\/"},"modified":"2009-04-02T10:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T15:17:00","slug":"nit-finals-headlines-beginning-of-final-4-weekend-betting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/nit-finals-headlines-beginning-of-final-4-weekend-betting\/","title":{"rendered":"NIT Finals Headlines Beginning of Final 4 Weekend Betting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today in the Daily Sports Roundup: The East-leading Cavs take on the Wizards, the Blues take on the Red Wings, and the NIT stages its championship matchup.<\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Tipping off on the hardwood  . . .<\/span><\/font><\/b><\/strong><\/o:p><\/p>\n

LeBron James and the Cavaliers will be looking to get past the Wizards on Thursday night when they meet in <\/span><\/font>Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> in just one of three games on the NBA schedule. The Wizards and Cavs last met on January 4, when Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> pulled out an 80-77 upset win as a 9-point home ‘dog. James scored 30 points for Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> in that loss, while Antawn Jamison had 26 points for the Wizards.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

It’s <\/span><\/font>Milwaukee<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> and Utah<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> in the other two games on the NBA hardwood on Thursday. The Sixers beat the Bucks 110-105 on January 7, with Milwaukee<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> a 7.5-point home favorite in that contest. The Jazz and Nuggets met in Utah<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> on March 6, with the Jazz winning 97-91 as a 9.5-point home favorite.  Deron<\/span> Williams picked up 25 points and 11 assists for Utah<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> in that win.<\/p>\n

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Taking a trip around the rink . . .<\/span><\/font><\/b><\/strong><\/o:p><\/p>\n

Eight games make up the National Hockey League’s schedule for Thursday night, including <\/span><\/font>St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>. The Red Wings will be looking to bounce back from a 4-3 loss to the Predators on Sunday, with Chris Osgood giving up four goals on 30 shots. The Wings and Blues last met up on March 14, with Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> grabbing a 5-2 win; St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> last managed to beat Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> in March 2008.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The other Western Conference power will also take to the ice on Thursday night, as <\/span><\/font>San Jose<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> will be in Edmonton<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> to face the Oilers<\/span>. Rounding out the schedule: <\/span>Ottawa<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at <\/span>Boston<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, the Rangers at <\/span>Carolina<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, <\/span>Montreal<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at the Islanders, <\/span>Anaheim<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at <\/span>Vancouver<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, <\/span>Los Angeles<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at <\/span>Phoenix<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, and <\/span>Calgary<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at <\/span>Dallas<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:City>.<\/span> The Flames fell 2-1 to the Sharks in their last game on Monday, with Jarome<\/span> Iginla<\/span> scoring their goal.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Rounding out the Roundup . . .<\/span><\/font><\/b><\/strong><\/o:p><\/p>\n

The NIT championship game will be played at <\/span><\/font>Madison<\/st1:PlaceName> Square<\/st1:PlaceName> Garden<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> on Thursday night, with Baylor taking on Penn<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. The Bears won their semifinal matchup with San Diego<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> by a score of 76-62 on Tuesday night, with Curtis Jerrells<\/span> scoring 25 points and LaceDarius<\/span> Dunn adding 23 points. Penn<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> got past Notre Dame 67-59 on Tuesday ,<\/span> with Talor<\/span> Battle pouring in a team-high 17 points and Andrew Jones contributing 16 points and 15 rebounds in the victory.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Finally, the PGA<\/span> Tour tunes up for The Masters this week with the Shell Houston Open at Redstone GC in Humble, <\/span><\/font>Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>. Phil Mickelson is pegged as the 5\/1 Vegas favorite to get the win this week, with each of Ernie Els<\/span>, Padraig<\/span> Harrington, Sergio Garcia, Camilo<\/span> Villegas, and Geoff Ogilvy listed at 15\/1 odds. Ogilvy and Chad Campbell both finished at 14-under in this tournament last year, two strokes back of winner Johnson Wagner. Mickelson finished 23rd<\/sup> at 6-under.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Today in the Daily Sports Roundup: The East-leading Cavs take on the Wizards, the Blues take on the Red Wings, and the NIT stages its championship matchup. Tipping off on the hardwood  . . . LeBron James and the Cavaliers will be looking to get past the Wizards on Thursday night when they meet in … Continue reading NIT Finals Headlines Beginning of Final 4 Weekend Betting<\/span> →<\/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-4059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059","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=4059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}