Xavier Musketeers 2010 NCAA Final Four Odds, Picks & Predictions: Again, for the third straight year, the Xavier Musketeers (Atlantic 10) are in college basketball's national championship discussion as the team heads into final 16 competition as a six-seed in the West Region at Salt Lake City, Utah on Thursday.
The Musketeers, still considered long shots to win the 2010 NCAA men's tournament championship at +4000 odds are not out of the picture to win the West Region at +600 odds according to oddsmakers at Sportsbook.com.
For Thursday's game, Sportsbook oddsmakers list Xavier as +5 point underdogs to Kansas State while getting +200 odds on the Sportsbook moneyline.
So far in the tournament Xavier has been impressive, cruising past Minnesota 65-54 in the first round and upsetting three-seed Big East power Pittsburgh 71-68 in round two. Xavier covered the betting spread, as a 1 1/2-chalk favorite versus Minnesota and as +2-point underdogs to Pitt.
Xavier has won 10 of its last 11 games Su and has covered the point-spread in the last 7-of-10 games.
Looking ahead in the West bracket, if the Musketeers can get past the Wildcats Thursday, they will advance to play the winner of the 1 and 5 seed game between Butler and Syracuse. If Xavier advances to the Final Four they could possibly face Duke in the tournament semifinals.
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