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Kentucky baseball vs Illinois prediction, odds for NCAA tournament regionals
LEXINGTON — Kentucky jumped to an eight-run lead Friday and then held on for a 10-8 win over Western Michigan in the opening game of the NCAA Tournament’s Lexington Regional.
Illinois never trailed in a 4-1 win over Indiana State in Friday’s nightcap.
Now, the Wildcats and Fighting Illini are set to square off Saturday.
UK, 41-14 on the season and the NCAA Tournament’s No. 2 overall seed, captured a share of the SEC regular-season title for only the second time. Illinois is a regular-season conference champ as well, winning the Big Ten for the first time since 2015.
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Here’s what to know about UK’s NCAA regional matchup against Illinois at Kentucky Proud Park, with first pitch set for 6 p.m. Saturday:
Kentucky baseball vs Illinois prediction in NCAA regional bracket
Kentucky 5, Illinois 4: On paper, this matchup is like splitting hairs. Illinois averages 8.2 runs per game; Kentucky is at 8.1. The expected starting pitchers, UK’s Trey Pooser and Illinois’ Cooper Omans, have nearly identical rates in hits allowed per nine innings (7.01 for Omans, 7.14 for Pooser) and walks + hits per innings pitched — better known by its acronym WHIP — that has Pooser (1.18) slightly ahead of Omans (1.24). When teams are this evenly matched, give the most infinitesimal of edges to the squad playing in its home venue. In this case, that’s the Wildcats, who escape with a one-run victory to improve to 2-0 at the regional.
Kentucky vs. Illinois odds in 2024 NCAA tournament
Odds courtesy of BetMGM. Odds will be updated as they become available.
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Kentucky baseball odds to reach 2024 College World Series BetMGM
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Kentucky: The Wildcats have the fifth-best odds at +1000 to win the College World Series, per BetMGM.
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Security camera video shows the moment a UPS cargo plane crashed on take-off in the US state of Kentucky, sparking a huge fireball. At least seven people were killed as the plane came down and hit a petroleum recycling plant.
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HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (WDKY) — A Kentucky woman got a grisly surprise just days before Halloween when a package containing human body parts showed up at her door.
On Thursday, Oct. 30, the Christian County Coroner Scott Daniel told Nexstar’s WDKY that the body parts she’d received by mistake the previous day were from a cadaver and meant for surgical training, not transplant.
“We never know what kind of call we’re going to get, they’re all over the place, but last night was a little different,” Daniel told radio station WKDZ the following day. “We had a resident here in Hopkinsville who opened the box – it was supposed to be some urgent medical supplies – and when she opened the box she found human arms and fingers.”
The coroner said the woman was “obviously a little shook” after opening the cardboard box, which contained four fingers and two arms, packed in plastic ice packs.
Daniel said the woman called deputies with the Christian County Sheriff’s Office, who responded and notified the coroner’s office.
Officials reportedly took the cadaver parts to the morgue on Wednesday morning and contacted the carrier, making arrangements to get them to their proper destination.
Daniel said the parts were shipped from Nashville and wound up at the wrong address after a courier mix-up, adding that Hopkinsville officials ensured that the woman ultimately received the supplies she was waiting for, according to the Lexington-Herald Leader.
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