The first game features the Missouri Tigers taking on the No. 1-seeded Connecticut Huskies in the West Regional Final (4:40 pm ET, CBS).<\/p>\n
The Huskies are 5.5-point favorites and the over\/under is 149.5 in March Madness Betting Odds at betED.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Later, the upstart Villanova Wildcats battle the No. 1 Pittsburgh Panthers in the East Region Final (7:05 pm ET).<\/p>\n Pittsburgh is a slim, 2-point favorite and the over\/under is 142.<\/strong><\/p>\n Missouri looked impressive in jumping out to a 10-point halftime lead against the favored Memphis Tigers in their Sweet Sixteen matchup Thursday night. Missouri beat Memphis 102-91, winning as a 4.5-point underdog. The score went way over the total of 141.5.<\/p>\n Missouri was led by J.T. Tiller\u2019s 25 points, three rebounds and three assists while DeMarre Carroll chipped in with 17 points.<\/p>\n Connecticut beat Purdue 72-60 in their Sweet Sixteen matchup on Thursday. Connecticut covered the 7-point spread and the score went under the total of 134. Missouri is 31-6 SU and 20-9-1 ATS. Connecticut is 30-4 SU and 16-14 ATS.<\/p>\n Villanova scored 51 points in the second half to upset the Duke Blue Devils 77-54 on Thursday. Villanova won as a 2.5-point underdog and the 131 points went under the total of 148.<\/p>\n Scottie Reynolds had 16 points for Villanova and Dante Cunningham added 14 points and 12 rebounds for a double-double.<\/p>\n Pittsburgh recovered from an eight-point deficit to beat Xavier 60-55 in their Sweet Sixteen tilt on Thursday. Pittsburgh failed to cover the 6.5-point spread, and the score went under the total of 138.<\/p>\n Villanova is 29-7 SU and 18-14 ATS while Pittsburgh is 31-4 SU and 17-12 ATS.<\/p>\n The Elite Eight round of the NCAA Tournament gets going Saturday and betED.com has odds available for the first two tilts…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1415],"tags":[12243,159,1376,1380,12244,12253,12245,12246,12249,12250,11735,12247,12248,12252,11491,12251,12254],"class_list":["post-9789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-2009-elite-8-betting-preview","tag-beted","tag-beted-sportsbook","tag-betedcom","tag-college-hoops-tourney-odds","tag-east-region-final-betting","tag-elite-8-betting","tag-elite-8-gambling","tag-elite-8-lines","tag-elite-8-odds","tag-elite-8-picks","tag-elite-8-predictions","tag-elite-8-previews","tag-missouri-vs-uconn","tag-ncaa-basketball-tournament-odds","tag-villanova-vs-pittsburgh","tag-west-regional-final-betting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9791,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9789\/revisions\/9791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/banners.beted.com\/images\/banners\/NCAAB\/NCAABGEN1M320X110.gif\")
<\/a><\/p>\nCheck out betED.com for odds for the final two games of the Elite Eight after the matchups are determined Friday night<\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"