West Virginia vs Kentucky 2010 NCAA Tournament Elite Eight Odds, Predictions & Picks: The Carrier Dome in Syracuse, NY, will be the sight for tonight’s 2010 NCAA Tournament East Regional Finals between the top two seeds in the West Virginia Mountaineers [+4½] taking on the sports betting odds favorite Kentucky Wildcats [-4½]. This highly anticipated game tips off at 7:10 PM ET (4:10 PM PT) live in high definition on CBS Sports.
For West Virginia, this team is coming off a 69-56 victory over Washington on Thursday night, where leading scorer Da’Sean Butler fell down hard. On Friday, the senior forward has his right hand and wrist wrapped in ice following team practices. According to Butler, the injury will not affect his play for the remainder of the 2010 NCAA Tournament. “I’m taking care of certain things before it gets to a certain level where I can’t do anything with it,” he said.
For Kentucky, this team has gone from being an inexperienced squad to the sports betting odds favorites to win the 2010 NCAA Tournament and become the next National Champions. Despite starting three freshmen, a sophomore and a junior, is team is as confident as any of the other ones left.
“We believe that we are a great basketball team,” Patterson said. “We truly believe that we can win this national title if we continue playing better and keep improving.”
For UK coach John Calipari, he has come in and built a championship caliber program once again. Calipari’s kids are now just one win away from their first Final Four since the Wildcats’ 1998 National Championship year. “We know that we’re part of history,” forward Patrick Patterson said. “We’re part of a team that’s getting Kentucky back to the true place that the Kentucky program was in the past and should be from now on.”
