{"id":4061,"date":"2009-04-02T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/cunningham-lawson-lead-the-way-in-final-4-betting\/"},"modified":"2009-04-02T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T19:22:00","slug":"cunningham-lawson-lead-the-way-in-final-4-betting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/cunningham-lawson-lead-the-way-in-final-4-betting\/","title":{"rendered":"Cunningham, Lawson Lead the Way in Final 4 Betting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/\" title=\"Final Four betting\" id=idkn>Final Four betting<\/a>, two contradictory statements are almost always true for any team with the privilege of making it there: (a) You can&#8217;t make it to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/\" title=\"Final Four odds\" id=\"zdk:\">Final Four odds<\/a> on the strength of one player and (b) You still need a reliable, go-to guy to help lead you to a national championship. In other words, you need depth but a special player can often help put you over the top or pick your team up when it&#8217;s down. Let&#8217;s look at the key contributors for the Tar Heels and Wildcats entering the <\/span><\/font><st1:State><st1:place>North   Carolina<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> <span class=SpellE>vs<\/span> Villanova line. <\/p>\n<p> <st1:State><st1:place><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>North Carolina<\/span><\/b><\/st1:place><\/st1:State><b><span style='font-weight:bold'> <\/p>\n<p> <\/span><\/b>For all the talk of guard <span class=SpellE>Ty<\/span> Lawson&#8217;s toe injury entering March Madness <span class=GramE>betting,<\/span> he sure has silenced the critics at the sportsbook. In fact, he&#8217;s probably been <span class=SpellE>UNC&#8217;s<\/span> best and most consistent player this postseason. In 100 minutes of play, he has an amazingly low <i><span style='font-style:italic'>two <\/span><\/i>turnovers compared to 20 assists. He&#8217;s also 20 for 35 from the field and is averaging over 20 points per game. He has been the rock Tar Heels fans hoped he&#8217;d be. <span class=SpellE>TylerHansbrough<\/span> has been a strong contributor too, but his eight points in <span class=SpellE>UNC&#8217;s<\/span> online betting triumph over <st1:State><st1:place>Oklahoma<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> shows he&#8217;s been inconsistent. <\/p>\n<p> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Villanova<\/p>\n<p> <\/span><\/b>Senior forward Dante Cunningham has been a consistent force for Villanova leading up to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/\" title=\"Final Four odds\" id=qpii>Final Four odds<\/a>. He has been a presence in the paint, eclipsing 10 boards against UCLA and Duke. He&#8217;s scored 14 or more points in every tournament game this season and has a pair of double-doubles. He has, however, gotten into foul trouble, with three or more fouls in three straight games. He&#8217;ll have to stay on the court if Villanova wants to pull off the sportsbook upset.<\/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>In Final Four betting, two contradictory statements are almost always true for any team with the privilege of making it there: (a) You can&#8217;t make it to the Final Four odds on the strength of one player and (b) You still need a reliable, go-to guy to help lead you to a national championship. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/cunningham-lawson-lead-the-way-in-final-4-betting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cunningham, Lawson Lead the Way in Final 4 Betting<\/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-4061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061","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=4061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}