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Final Four: Kentucky Opens as 6-Point Chalk Against Wisconsin

Scott Morris | March 29, 2015

As is the case many times, championship teams have on big scare during their run to a national championship. On Saturday, the 38-0 Kentucky Wildcats experienced that scare at the hand of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

Kentucky trailed for much of the second half, but got two crucial foul shots from Andrew Harrison with just six seconds left on the clock to give Kentucky its margin of victory of two-points as the Wildcats defeated the Irish 68-66 and moved on to the Final Four.

Just minutes after Kentucky had won its battle with Notre Dame, odds makers posted the Wildcats a favorite of between -6 and -6.5 points against Wisconsin in their Saturday national semifinal.

This will be just the second time all season that Wisconsin will be the underdog in a game. The first time this season was on Saturday, when the Badgers were 1.5-point dogs against Arizona but won outright by 7 points 85-78.

The point spread to open between Wisconsin and Kentucky follows a number of the power ratings that show on a neutral court, Kentucky is over 6 points better than Wisconsin. This year’s Final Four will be played in Indianapolis.

Many of the spreads Kentucky had all season were inflated by between 2 and 3 points, but next Saturday’s game will not have any extra inflation built in as Kentucky showed a crack in its armor in its narrow win versus the Fighting Irish.

If this current spread holds, it will end up being the shortest number Kentucky has laid as chalk since December 27, when the Wildcats were 5-5-point chalk at Louisville in a game they covered 58-50.

This season, when a favorite by single digits, Kentucky is 3-3 ATS. However, the Wildcats are 0-3 in its past three games with those parameters.

However, Kentucky could come out and blow Wisconsin off the court after experiencing such a scare against Notre Dame and knowing that just two wins stand between them and a national title and a 40-0 season.

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AP TeamW/LSeason StartLive Odds
1Ohio State2-0+675+550
2Penn State2-0+700+575
3LSU2-0+1200+850
4Oregon2-0+1200+850
5Miami FL2-0+2800+2200
6Georgia2-0+650+650
7Texas1-1+600+650
8Notre Dame0-1+1000+1800
9Illinois2-0+15000+15000
10FSU2-0+3000+4500
11South Carolina2-0+6600+7500
12Clemson1-1+850+2000
13Oklahoma2-0+4000+2500
14Iowa State3-0+20000+15000
15Tennessee2-0+6600+5000
16Texas A&M2-0+3300+3300
17Ole Miss2-0+4000+4000
18S. Florida2-0+100000+20000
19Alabama1-1+900+1400
20Utah2-0+4000+5000
21Texas Tech2-0+10000+10000
22Indiana2-0+12500+10000
23Michigan1-1+3300+4000
24Auburn2-0+6000+4000
25Missouri2-0+10000+12500