NCAA Tournament: Sweet 16 Thursday matchups
By Hank Harris • Mar 22nd, 2010 • Category: NCAABThe Regional semi-finals at the NCAA Tournament – otherwise known as the Sweet 16 round – get going on Thursday.
NCAA Tournament Betting Odds are available for all eight matchups at JustBet.
The action starts with the No. 1 seed Syracuse Orange battling the No. 5-seed Butler Bulldogs in a West region clash in Salt Lake City (7:10 pm ET, CBS).
The Orange are 7-point favorites and the over/under is 138.5.
Syracuse and Butler have met before, although it was eight years ago. The Orange edged the Bulldogs 66-65 as 2-point favorites in the 2002 NCAA Tournament.
The other West semifinal features the No. 6 Xavier Musketeers against the No. 2 Kansas State Wildcats (9:40 pm ET, CBS).
Kentucky is a 4.5-point favorite and the over/under is at 153.5 at JustBet.
Xavier and Kansas State have met three times previously, with the Musketeers holding a 2-1 SU and ATS edge. They last squared off just three months ago, when the Wildcats won 71-56 as a 6.5-point home favorite.
In the East regional semis, the 11th seed takes on the 2nd seed as the Pac-10 tournament champion Washington Huskies battle the Big East champion West Virginia Mountaineers (7:30 pm ET, CBS). The teams have never met.
West Virginia is a 5-point favorite and the over/under is 142.5.
The other East semi has the No. 12 Cornell Big Red up against the No. 1 Kentucky Wildcats (10 pm ET, CBS).
The Wildcats are 9-point favorites and the total is at 147.
Cornell and Kentucky have met once before – in 1966. Cornell won.
Hank Harris is a professional writer with more than 25 years experience. He has written on sports betting and gambling for more than a decade of that time. He covers all sports, from the NFL to the NBA to NCAA College.
He is originally from the Boston area and is now based out of Las Vegas.
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