{"id":9838,"date":"2009-03-30T16:07:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T21:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=9838"},"modified":"2009-03-30T16:08:33","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T21:08:33","slug":"2009-odds-to-win-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball\/2009-odds-to-win-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Odds To Win 2009 NCAA Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bet The NCAA Final Four Now at betED.com<\/h2>\n<p>The <a title=\"Final Four Picks\" href=\"\/ncaab\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Final Four<\/strong><\/a> matchups are set and <a title=\"betED.com Review\" href=\"\/sportsbooks\/beted-review\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>betED.com<\/strong><\/a> has odds for the big games this weekend as the craziness of March Madness reaches a climax.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard not to like the Michigan State Spartans\u2019 chances as they will enjoy home-court advantage playing at Ford Field in Detroit, where they\u2019ll face the Connecticut Huskies on Saturday (6:07 pm ET, CBS).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But the Spartans will be up against a No. 1 seed in the Huskies, who are a 4.5-point favorite in <a title=\"Final Four Odds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beted.com\/8d0e43dd-2c74\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>betED.com Final Four Betting Odds<\/strong><\/a>. The over\/under total is 135.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan State made it to the Final with a 64-52 upset win over the Louisville Cardinals in Indianapolis on Sunday. The Spartans won as a 7-point underdog and the score went under the total of 137.5.<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut held off a hard-charging Missouri Tigers team, winning 82-75 in the Elite Eight. Connecticut covered the 5.5-point spread, and the score went over the total of 152.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beted.com\/8d0e43dd-2c74\/promland\/0518\/0518GEN.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 1px; border: 1px solid #ffffff;\" src=\"http:\/\/banners.beted.com\/images\/banners\/NCAAB\/NCAABGEN1M250X250.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michigan State will try to become the first team to win the title in its home state since the UCLA Bruins won the 1975 National Championship game in San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1999, Michigan State has had the most Final Four appearances with five. UNC ranks second with four. UConn is tied for third with three.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the North Carolina Tar Heels, they\u2019re now the favorite in betED.com\u2019s NCAA Championship Betting Odds, at -175. The Huskies are +225, while Villanova Wildcats are +500 and Michigan State is +550.<\/p>\n<p>The Tar Heels face the Wildcats in the second Final Four matchup Saturday night (8:47 pm ET, CBS). North Carolina is an 8-point favorite and the total is 161.<\/p>\n<p>Villanova scored 46 points in the second half and came away with a 78-76 upset over the No. 1-seed Pittsburgh Panthers in the Elite Eight. Villanova won the game as a 2-point underdog, and the score made it over the total of 141.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina defeated Oklahoma 72-60 as a 7-point favorite in the Elite Eight. The score went under the total of 163.5.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/go\/bovada\">Click Here Now &amp; Check out the Updated NCAA Basketball Betting Odds at betED.com<\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Final Four matchups are set and betED.com has odds for the big games this weekend as the craziness of March Madness reaches a climax&#8230;<\/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":[12347,12346,12344,159,12341,12343,12342,1376,160,12066,12348,12349,12345,913],"class_list":["post-9838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-2009-final-4-odds","tag-2009-final-four-odds","tag-2009-odds-to-win-ncaa-championship","tag-beted","tag-beted-articles","tag-beted-college-basketball-odds","tag-beted-odds","tag-beted-sportsbook","tag-betedcom-sportsbook","tag-final-4-lines","tag-final-4-spreads","tag-ncaa-championship-lines","tag-ncaa-final-four-odds","tag-odds-to-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9838","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=9838"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9841,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9838\/revisions\/9841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}