Butler vs. Duke 2010 NCAA Championship Odds & Picks: The NCAA will crown its Division-1 college basketball national champion Monday night. This championship, to be determined on the court in a game played between two private schools, Butler and Duke at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, a city that's also home to Butler.
College basketball oddsmakers at SPORTSBETTING.com list Duke as 7-chalk favorite versus Butler with a 128 total. Butler backers are getting +275 odds as the championship underdog while Duke is giving -350.
Butler gets to play the role of big underdog in this David vs. Goliath matchup, and in their own backyard. But this team is no upstart. The Bulldogs (33-4) went 2-3 vs. eventual Big Dance participants Minnesota, Clemson, Georgetown, Ohio State and Xavier during the early part of this season, then went perfect through the Horizon League, going 18-0 to win the regular-season crown and taking the conference tournament. In the NCAA Tournament, the Bulldogs have gone 5-0, winning against UTEP, Murray State and Syracuse, in the regionals, and defeated Michigan State in Saturday's semi-finals.
Duke (34-5) reached the national championship game for the tenth time with a convincing, 78-57, victory over West Virginia in the second semifinals game. The Blue Devils led wire-to-wire in the game, putting on a sizzling 52.7% shooting performance! Duke will be the second No. 1 seed that Butler, a 5-seed has faced in this year’s tournament.
NCAA Tournament Predictions: If Butler is forced to play without star forward Matt Howard, they could be in trouble. Howard, who sustained a concussion in the game with Michigan State, is a game time decision. Because of the question over Howard's status, is why the line has bulged to -7. Betting the underdog in this tournament has been trendy and profitable, however; this scribe is predicting a Duke SU victory that will cover the 7-point chalk.
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