We are joined again this week by ESPN.com gambling writer David Purdum, who tries to help us make sense of a South Carolina-Kentucky line that didn’t seem to make a lot of sense most of the week. Most odds makers had the Wildcats as 1-point or 1.5-point favorites as of Thursday morning.
What happened with this line?
It opened at 1.5 with South Carolina the favorite at the Wynn, and when the other books came out later in the day they had Kentucky favored. I was surprised South Carolina was favored.