The Aces are in an 0-1 hole after suffering an 89-73 upset loss to the Indiana Fever on Sunday in their WNBA semifinal playoff series.<\/p>\n
The Aces are still -250 favorites at the Westgate SuperBook to win the best-of-five series after entering as prohibitive -1,100 favorites. But SuperBook WNBA oddsmaker Jeff Sherman said they can\u2019t afford to lose Game 2 on Tuesday at Michelob Ultra Arena.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can pretty much say this is a must win for the Aces,\u201d he said. \u201cTo go down 0-2 on their home court and have to go to Indiana for two (games) would be a difficult task.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d expect them to be a little bit more focused and get a win here, but I\u2019m not saying they\u2019re going to cover the number.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Aces, who have lost two of their past three playoff games (0-3 against the spread) following a franchise-record 17-game winning streak, are 9\u00bd-point favorites after the line opened at 8\u00bd. The total is 164\u00bd.<\/p>\n
Indiana, which pays 4-1 on the money line, upset the Atlanta Dream in the first round without star Caitlin Clark. She has been sidelined since suffering a groin injury July 15 and was ruled out for the rest of the season Sept. 4.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey still have some talented pieces there in Kelsey Mitchell, Aliyah Boston and Natasha Howard,\u201d Sherman said.<\/p>\n
Mitchell, who finished fifth in MVP voting, led all scorers with 34 points Sunday. Aces center A\u2019ja Wilson, who became the first WNBA player to win four MVP awards, finished with 16 points and 13 rebounds.<\/p>\n
Mitchell\u2019s Game 2 points prop is 20\u00bd. Wilson\u2019s points prop is 25\u00bd, and her rebounds prop is 10\u00bd.<\/p>\n
The Aces\u2019 title odds shot up from +190 to the +350 second choice behind the Minnesota Lynx, the -300 favorites.<\/p>\n
UNR bad beat<\/p>\n
UNR bettors were dealt a brutal bad beat in Saturday\u2019s 31-16 loss at Western Kentucky. The Wolf Pack, who closed as 8\u00bd-point underdogs at Circa Sports, settled for a 22-yard field goal on fourth-and-goal with 29 seconds left to cut their deficit to 24-16 for what appeared to be a back-door cover. But it still wasn\u2019t over.<\/p>\n
As expected, UNR attempted an onside kick. But, unexpectedly, the Hilltoppers\u2019 Matthew Henry snatched the ball out of the air in stride and scored on a 48-yard kickoff return with 23 seconds left to hand Wolf Pack backers what appeared to be a bad beat for the ages.<\/p>\n
But it might not have even been the worst beat of the weekend after the Eagles dealt Rams bettors an epic bad beat Sunday when they returned a blocked field goal 61 yards for a touchdown on the final play to cover the spread.<\/p>\n
Veteran oddsmaker dies<\/p>\n
Genuine. Generous. Kind. Positive. A bright light. An amazing person. Everyone\u2019s best friend. A proud father. A family man. Universally beloved.<\/p>\n
Those descriptions were part of an outpouring of love on X for veteran Las Vegas oddsmaker Dave Sharapan, aka Sportsbook Consigliere (@SportsbkConsig), who died Saturday at age 55 after a bout with cancer.<\/p>\n
Sharapan, a Pittsburgh native and Penn State graduate, helped launch an offshore sportsbook in Curacao before moving to Las Vegas. He worked at the Golden Nugget and CG Technology sportsbooks before becoming a sports betting analyst in recent years and co-host of the podcast \u201cThe Bostonian vs. The Book\u201d with Matt Perrault.<\/p>\n
Sharapan is survived by his wife, Jessica, and their three daughters. He affectionately referred to them as Mrs. Consig, Big Consig, Middle Consig and Little Consig.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy husband, our dad, our best friend, Dave, passed away last night,\u201d Jessica Sharapan posted Sunday on X. \u201cDave was more than someone behind the counter. He was a constant, a voice you trusted, the guy who knew the line before the books did, the one sharing stories from the book, the guy who could make you laugh even when the game was a bad beat. But to us, he was our everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
Contact reporter Todd Dewey at tdewey@reviewjournal.com.<\/a> Follow @tdewey33<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n WNBA championship odds<\/p>\n At Westgate SuperBook<\/p>\n Lynx -300<\/p>\n Aces +325<\/p>\n Mercury 18-1<\/p>\n Fever 25-1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Aces are in an 0-1 hole after suffering an 89-73 upset loss to the Indiana Fever on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-162420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}