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Sunday's College Hoops-

Michigan Wolverines at Michigan State Spartans (-8.5, 126) Michigan State is 13-0 at home this season and 7-3 ATS, including 4-0 ATS in their last four. The Spartans, however...

There's a fairly light college

hoops schedule over the next two days as the bulk of North American sports fans turn their attention to the NFL Championship Game. Still, trying to cover a shorter slate for on...

College Basketball Trends by Marc L...

Saturday, February 4 Ohio St SERIES: Visitor 0-4 L4… 1-5 away w/ 4+ days rest WISCONSIN 13-2 home vs .700 > opp… 9-3 conf fav/dog 3 < pts Iowa St SERIES: 0-4 L4… 1-5 co...

Incredible Stat of the Week by Marc...

Since Valparaiso joined the league in 2007-08, a total of 32 teams have faced the Valpo/Butler combination on the road in the same weekend. No visiting team has won both games.

Saturday's NCAAB Plays

Kansas Jayhawks at Missouri Tigers (-3, 147.5) The stakes are always high when border rivals Missouri and Kansas get together, but the intensity might be at an all-time cresc...

There is a ‘Super Saturday’ in

college basketball betting with five huge games on ESPN, just one day before the Super Bowl. The major conferences are right around the halfway point in their league schedules...

Their campuses are less than a three

hour drive apart on a pair of interstates, as long as you don't hit a delay around the Lake City exchange. The two conferences they reside in have shared recent dominance on c...

COLLEGE HOOPS NEWS AND NOTES:

by Steve Merril ACC: Virginia starting center Assane Sene will miss as many as six weeks of action because of a broken ankle that required surgery. Sene is a 7-foot sen...

Thursday's NCAAB Plays

UCLA Bruins at Washington Huskies (-3.5, 142.5) If UCLA is going to be a player in the Pac-12 race, the Bruins are going to have to prove they can win on the road. Thursday�...

Tuesday night on the college

hardwood produced a number of relatively low-scoring games. The average final score only tallied 123.2 PPG, and there were almost as many teams that scored in the 40s (six) tha...

Oh, how times have changed.

Death, taxes and UCLA basketball used to be three of the most dependable things in life. Sadly, only death and taxes remain as such. Indeed, these are tough times on the Pac...

Wednesday's NCAAB Plays

Boise State Broncos at San Diego State Aztecs (-13, 135) One game after several of its lengthy win streaks came to an end, 17th-ranked San Diego State looks to rebound agains...

February has arrived.

The worldwide leader in sports reminded us of its approach during the televised announcement of upcoming BracketBusters pairings on Monday night. The highlight of the event w...

Tuesday's NCAAB Plays

Wisconsin Badgers at Penn State Nittany Lions (10, 110.5) No. 25 Wisconsin takes aim at its sixth consecutive victory Tuesday night when it travels eastward to face a slumpin...

Relatively speaking, the

NCAA basketball betting slate on Tuesday is short, as there are only 14 games to choose from. However, of those clashes, half involve teams that are ranked in the AP Top 25, wh...

Monday's NCAAB Plays

Pitt Panthers at West Virginia Mountaineers (-7, 137.5) You knew things were pretty desperate when Pitt coach Jamie Dixon abandoned his usual man-to-man defense for a zone, b...

Sunday's College Hoops-

Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Connecticut Huskies At first glance the trends would point to a convincing win for Connecticut when it hosts Note Dame on Sunday afternoon. The H...

Depending on how much the

national rankings change this coming week, there are currently only five games featuring Top 25 teams scheduled for Sunday and Monday. The highest ranked teams that will take t...

Incredible Stat of the Week by Marc...

Michigan's John Beilein is 20-6 SU and ATS at home with same-season revenge, including 16-2 ATS if not favored by more than 6 points. (Wed 2/1)

NCAAB Trends by Marc Lawrence

Saturday, January 28 Marquette 9-1 conf RF's < 9 pts… 5-1 favs w/ 3 days rest VILLANOVA SERIES: Host 0-4 L4… 1-4 home w/ 2 days rest Washington 1-5 dogs 8 < pts… 1-4 in...

Saturday's NCAAB Plays

No. 16 Mississippi State Bulldogs at No. 13 Florida Gators (-9.5, 145) Bulldogs forward Arnett Moultrie is coming off his 12th double-double, a 28-point, 12-rebound effort ...

A huge Saturday in college basketball

is highlighted by the Kentucky Wildcats visiting the LSU Tigers in the SEC. The Wildcats are No. 1 in the country, but part of a disturbing against the spread trend for last y...

NCAAB betting trends:

Any college coach worth his salt will tell you that a pile high-fliers and long-range snipers won’t get you very far unless you can play some defense. With a quiet NCAAB...

Mention of Harvard and Yale

getting together generally conjures up images of a crisp New England autumn afternoon with the Crimson and Bulldogs battling it out on the gridiron. Friday night, however, it'...

COLLEGE HOOPS NEWS AND NOTES

by Steve Merril ACC North Carolina has lost starting guard Dexter Strickland for the season after he tore his ACL in his right knee in the Tar Heels’ game at Virginia Tech...

MID-MAJOR REPORT:

The Green Bay Packers failed to do it in the NFL and so did the Colts, but two mid-major college basketball teams have a reasonable opportunity to provide sports fans with perfe...

Thursday's NCAAB PLAYS

Indiana Hoosiers at Wisconsin Badgers (-7, 126) Wisconsin goes for its fifth straight victory when it hosts No. 17 Indiana on Thursday. The No. 25 Badgers stumbled to a 1-3 s...

A week ago, we previewed

a trio of tilts in the West Coast Conference that highlighted the top three teams in the league – Saint Mary's, Gonzaga and Brigham Young. Among the teams filling roles as o...

Injuries in college basketball

have been far less than in the NBA this year, but there are a number to keep an eye on as we head into Thursday night’s action. North Carolina shooting guard Dexter Strickla...

Wednesday's NCAAB Plays

Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Seton Hall Pirates (-6.5, 129) When the Notre Dame Fighting Irish shocked the then-undefeated No. 1 Syracuse Orange last weekend, Irish coach Mik...

College basketball betting is

far different than the NBA with about 10 times as many teams to choose from. With so many choices, bettors can’t just focus on the major ...

Tuesday's NCAAB Plays

Baylor Bears at Oklahoma Sooners (5.5, 143) Baylor looked almost unbeatable when it started the season with a school-record 17-game winning streak. But losses at Kansas and a...

It was another wild weekend

of college basketball betting action with a number of Top 25 teams that were trumped, many of which came in dramatic and shocking fashion. Highlighting the losses were the Syr...

No. 1 Syracuse showed plenty

of weaknesses in its first loss Saturday. Now it must try to show resiliency as it enters another hostile environment at Cincinnati. Syracuse’s school-best 20-game win streak...

Monday's NCAAB Plays

Texas A&M Aggies at Kansas Jayhawks (-18, 124.5) Preseason prognostications suggested this would be a matchup of the Big 12's top two teams. Texas A&M and Kansas were pro...

Now that was a college basketball

Saturday that we've come to know and love. The heavy slate saw four of the top 11 teams in the coaches poll go down in defeat, including two on their own courts, while several...

MIAMI FLA over NC State by 12

says Marc Lawrence... Since the return of C Reggie Johnson, Miami has been applying the heat. The Canes have won five of seven since the big man is back on campus, including ...

A jam-packed schedule on Saturday

is followed by lighter slates both Sunday and Monday as college basketball closes out its 11th week and begins Week 12. Only five teams ranked by the coaches this past week wi...

TEXAS over Kansas by 7

say Marc Lawrence: Not only does Kansas’ aforementioned blowout win over Baylor show that the Big 12 title – as usual – goes through Lawrence but that the 7th-ranked Ja...

Cincinnati over WEST VIRGINIA by 1

says Marc Lawrence: Home may be where the heart is but the road is where the money resides involving Cincinnati as the visitor is a Frommerlike 11-2 ATS in Bearcats’ games ...

BAYLOR over Missouri by 10

says Marc Lawrence: Normally a ‘Bubble Burst’ would be in effect this afternoon in Waco following the Bears’ fi rst loss of the season Monday at Kansas. However, our PL...

Calipari’s ‘Cats may be

sitting at No. 2 in the country but their 0-7 ATS mark this season versus opponents with revenge tells us that they still have a large target on their backs. And speaking of...

Saturday's NCAAB PLays

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at Clemson Tigers (-8.5, 119.5) Something about Georgia Tech brings out the best in Clemson senior guards Andre Young and Tanner Smith. They’...

There’s a big Saturday in college

basketball with nine of the top-10 teams in action. Most have done well covering spreads in their conferences, with some exceptions who are previewed below. Here’s the Coach...

Banking and coal mining rank

at the top of Birmingham's commerce, but the past couple of months have seen a new revenue stream emerge from Alabama's largest city. The UAB Blazers top a rather substantial ...

Friday night on the collegiate

hardwood is generally a light night, and this week is no exception. There are only five games that are on the slate, but without a single major conference school hitting the fl...

Incredible Stat of the Week by Marc...

John Calipari is 1-11-1 ATS with Kentucky in games against teams off a SU favorite loss. (Sat. 1/21 if Bama lost to Vandy on 1/19)

College Basketball Trends by Marc L...

Saturday, January 21 Purdue SERIES: 8-2 L10… 5-1 vs .800 > conf opp MICHIGAN ST 10-5 after Michigan… 1-7 home w/ 3 days rest Florida St 2-10 vs Last-Season Rev (1)… 1-4...

Thursday's NCAAB Plays

North Carolina Tar Heels at Virginia Tech Hokies (6, 143) The Virginia Tech Hokies are finding out how quickly things can change in the world of college basketball. Despite a...

The North Carolina Tar Heels

trying to bounce back from their worst loss in years is part of an ACC dominated Thursday night in college basketball. There are three games involving the Coaches Poll top-20 ...

They're the elite of the West

Coast Conference, and all three will be on their home courts Thursday night looking to keep pace with each other at the top of the league standings. The Saint Mary's Gaels cur...

COLLEGE HOOPS NEWS AND NOTES

by Steve Merril ACC Virginia Tech got some good news this week as their leading scorer, point guard Erick Green, is expected to return to the lineup. Green is averaging 16.1...

Wednesday's NCAAB Plays

Cincinnati Bearcats at UConn Huskies (-6.5, 129) It doesn’t sound like the UConn Huskies are going to get Ryan Boatright back in the lineup anytime soon as the NCAA investi...

Over the course of the last few

weeks, we have seen a number of ranked teams go on the road and lay absolute eggs. Just since Saturday, we have watched the North Carolina Tar Heels, Michigan State Spartans, U...

Tuesday's NCAAB Plays

Auburn Tigers at LSU Tigers (10, 121) As exciting as Auburn’s previous win was, perhaps none was more exhilarating for the school in recent memory than the last time it pla...

The Michigan-Michigan State rivalry

had turned one-sided until the Wolverines broke through last season. Michigan had lost eight of 10 entering last year, but swept the season series against the Spartans for the ...

Strong NCAAB teams slumping ATS:

If only college basketball betting were as simple as backing the best team on the floor. Of course, that's rarely the case. Here's a quic...

The second-ranked Kentucky Wildcats

survived their first real test in Southeastern Conference play on Saturday and get to host their next two league opponents at home, starting with the Arkansas Razorbacks on Tue...

Monday's NCAAB Plays

Louisville Cardinals at Marquette Golden Eagles (-4.5, 135) No. 24 Marquette, held off Pittsburgh, 62-57 in large part because of Darius Johnson-Odom and Jae Crowder's combin...

NCAAB Top 5 value bets:

The start of conference play is like pulling back the curtain on the Wizard of Oz. A lot of the time, a program that seemed great and powerful is just some little fat man, pulli...

Game of the day:

Indiana Hoosiers at Ohio State Buckeyes (-12.5, 142.5) THE STORY: Revenge is the theme of this Big Ten Sunday showdown. On New Year’s Ev...

Sunday's College Hoops-

Georgetown Hoyas at St. John's Red Storm (5.5, 130.5) Georgetown started off the season 13-1, but the opening-season surge has come to an abrupt halt. The Hoyas have dropped ...

It so often seems that all

you hear about college basketball is Big East blah-blah-blah and yadda-yadda-yadda ACC. The two conferences have definitely earned their reputations, producing the national ch...

Saturday's NCAAB Plays

N.C. State Wolfpack at Wake Forest Demon Deacons (5, 147) The Wolfpack enter angry after turning in arguably their worst performance of the season in an 82-71 home loss to ...

All too often, college

basketball betting fans are suckered into betting on ranked teams that are laying oodles of points in conference games. Thus far this season, this really hasn’t been the case...

Friday's best NCAAB bets

Seton Hall Pirates at South Florida Bulls (1.5, 118.5) Seton Hall has won and covered in four straight since losing at No. 1 Syracuse, three of them at home. The Pirates ...

It’s another Friday in college

basketball betting, which means a slate dominated by mid-majors. It’s also Friday the 13th, but the only thing scary is for those who have faded the elite teams in this categ...

Thursday's NCAAB PLAYS

Virginia Cavaliers at Duke Blue Devils (-9.5, 129) Virginia hasn’t beaten perennial Atlantic Coast Conference power Duke since 2007, and it hasn’t won at Cameron Indoor S...

Thursday night's top matchups

on the college hoops front will run from coast-to-coast with stops in four conferences for crucial showdowns. The evening will be headlined by a top-25 clash in the ACC where ...

The Wednesday college basketball

schedule has four teams from the top-10 and all will try to avoid getting tripped up on the road. Road teams have actually covered at a higher rate (51.4 percent) than home te...

Wednesday's best NCAAB bets

Kansas Jayhawks at Texas Tech Red Raiders (14.5, 134) Kansas looks to go 3-0 in the Big 12 for the sixth straight season when it travels to Texas Tech. Kansas averages 75.1 p...

Tuesday's NCAAB Plays

Baylor Bears at Kansas State Wildcats (-2) Kansas State had no trouble disposing of unbeaten Missouri 75-59 on Saturday. Now, the No. 18 Wildcats will try to take down yet an...

Alabama and LSU will play

for the college football championship on Monday night, for those who may not have heard about that game. For those who have heard about the BCS Championship and may have alrea...

Monday's NCAAB Plays

Cincinnati Bearcats at Georgetown Hoyas (-6.5, 124.5) Georgetown had been playing with fire since the beginning of Big East play. On Saturday, the Hoyas finally got burned. ...

Sunday's College Hoops-

Wisconsin Badgers at Michigan Wolverines Both Wisconsin and Michigan will be trying to bounce back from tough losses. The Badgers lost at home to Michigan State earlier this ...

Saturday's NCAAB PLays

St. John’s Red Storm at Cincinnati Bearcats (-13, 131) St. John’s has dropped two straight against Big East foes after opening conference play with a win over Providenc...

We expected to see a bit of a

down season for the Butler Bulldogs, and with their decline, an accompanying slip in general for the Horizon League. What was expected to help make up for Butler's drop-off wa...

As we head into another exciting

weekend of college basketball, we continue our quest to uncover unique betting trends that could hold into the future. The top-10 scoring teams in the country are listed below...

COLLEGE HOOPS NEWS AND NOTES:

by Steve Merril ACC Wake Forest is missing its best player. Guard C.J. Harris is out with a groin injury. Harris ranks second in the ACC in scoring at 18.7 points per game...

Thursday's NCAAB Plays

Purdue Boilermakers at Penn State Nittany Lions (7, N/A) The Boilermakers have done an outstanding job of avoiding mistakes, ranking third among Division I teams in fewest tu...

Just as there's more than one

way to skin a cat, there is more than one way to cash college basketball betting slips. Midway through the ninth week of the season, the Missouri-Kansas City Kangaroos and Ala...

Wednesday's NCAAB Plays

Duke Blue Devils at Temple Owls (6.5, N/A) No. 3 Duke has been historically dominant over Atlantic 10 opponents and will look to continue the trend when it takes on Temple on...

It wasn't that long ago when

the Duke-Temple basketball series was knotted at nine wins apiece. A 59-58 Owls victory over the Blue Devils in Jan. 1996 at the old Spectrum in Philadelphia pushed the all-ti...

Tuesday's NCAAB Plays

Oklahoma Sooners at Missouri Tigers (-13, 150.5) Missouri is off to its best start since the 1981-82 season at 13-0 and is one of only four remaining unbeaten teams in the co...

The New Year is here and that

means mostly conference games in college basketball where wins are tougher to come by and covers could be as well. Several teams have had little trouble straight-up or against...

Monday's NCAAB Plays

Texas A&M Aggies at Baylor Bears (-13, 124) The Big 12’s best defensive teams square off as No. 7 Baylor hosts Texas A&M in the conference opener for both teams. Back i...

Saturday's NCAAB PLays

Virginia Tech at Oklahoma State (-1, 125.5) These teams played in the consolation finals of the NIT Season Tip-Off in New York. The Hokies won 59-57 as Erick Green scored 18 ...

Oh, what might have been!

The 2011 calendar is set to end with a lot of great college basketball, though some of the luster is gone from two of the marquee games that find both Louisville and Indiana c...

Friday's NCAAB Plays

Western Michigan Broncos at Duke Blue Devils (-20.5, N/A) One of the major factors you have to consider here is Duke’s long layoff. The Blue Devils head into this one a...

A week ago, you couldn't

swing a dead cat around without hitting someone talking up the Seton Hall Pirates. Their relatively soft schedule to begin the season was generally noted, but the pundits stil...

Thursday's NCAAB Plays

Elon Phoenix at North Carolina Tar Heels (-30) North Carolina figures to cruise to its sixth consecutive victory when it hosts Elon of the Southern Conference on Thursday. Th...

COLLEGE HOOPS NEWS AND NOTES

ACC: Virginia has lost two players to transfer. KT Harrell and James Johnson have decided to leave the Cavaliers after they were both relegated to the bench. Head coach Tony...

Wednesday's NCAAB Plays

Seton Hall Pirates at Syracuse Orange (-15.5, N/A) There are plenty of spots on the Big East schedule to stumble, and No. 1 Syracuse knows that list includes Seton Hall, espe...

Louisville Cardinals fans

can be excused if they didn't have their full attention on Tuesday night's Belk Bowl that found the football team taking on North Carolina State. After all, a huge week for th...

Tuesday's NCAAB Plays

Pittsburgh Panthers at Notre Dame Fighting Irish (1.5, 136) No. 22 Pittsburgh was held to a season-low point total in Friday’s stunning 59-54 home loss to Wagner. So ...

It's difficult to imagine any

team facing a more difficult schedule between now and January 21 than what the Nebraska Cornhuskers find themselves up against. The tough stretch gets underway Tuesday night i...

Sunday's College Hoops-

Long Beach State 49ers vs. Kansas State Wildcats Long Beach State has played the toughest schedule in the nation thus far, and the 49ers will further test themselves on Chris...

A smattering of games remain

on the college basketball slate before the unofficial midway point of the season arrives with the annual Christmas break. Most conference schedules will be underway by this ti...

Friday's NCAAB Plays

California Golden Bears at UNLV Runnin’ Rebels (-5, N/A) With a nasty flu bug and injuries depleting California’s roster, the Golden Bears had their work cut out for them...

TWELVE DAYS OF MID-MAJOR BETTING

I – The Ivy Renaissance Harvard is 9-1 SU, 5-1 ATS, won a decent Tournament and has broken into the Top 25 of the Coaches Poll. However, the nerdy conference offers more th...

Thursday's NCAAB Plays

Florida State Seminoles at Florida Gators (-8, 136) This has all the makings of a classic offense vs. defense matchup. The Gators rank fifth nationally averaging 86.1 poi...

Just six unbeaten teams remain

on the college basketball front, and while we don't expect to see sports books hanging prop odds soon on any of them completing perfect seasons, one of the half-dozen does stan...

Wednesday's NCAAB Plays

Texas Longhorns at North Carolina Tar Heels (-12, 154.5) There’s no questioning the Tar Heels’ talent, but their focus is a work in progress. North Carolina has dropp...

Tuesday's NCAAB Plays

Charleston Cougars at Louisville Cardinals (-16, 138.5) Louisville passed another major test over the weekend when it outlasted Memphis 95-87. The fourth-ranked Cardinals hav...

A short week on the college

basketball betting slate tips Monday with a big chunk of ranked schools in action, including the top two from the ACC who have both been laden by oddsmakers with huge spreads t...

Monday's NCAAB Plays

Davidson at Kansas (-13.5, 147) Kansas expects to have senior guard Tyshawn Taylor back in the lineup for the game against Davidson at the annual M&I Kansas City Shootout at ...

Sunday's NCAAB Plays

Virginia Cavaliers at Oregon Ducks (+2, 122) Virginia will be playing its first true road game of the season when it travels to Eugene on Sunday. "Some of the things you ...

NCAA basketball preview -

Ohio State Buckeyes at South Carolina Gamecocks, noon ET, ESPN (14.5, 128.5) Buckeyes freshman forward Sam Thompson may have finally found a role: Defensive stopper. After pl...

Saturday's NCAAB PLays

Arizona Wildcats vs. Gonzaga Bulldogs (-3.5, 138) This game is being played in Seattle, technically a neutral court but definitely an edge for Mark Few’s team. Another...

The Syracuse Orange will play

their first game as the nation’s No. 1 team when they take on the North Carolina State Wolfpack from the RBC Center in Raleigh. ESPN2 will have the Saturday night affair at ...

Friday's NCAAB Plays

Idaho State Bengals at Utah Utes (1.5, 130) It has been more than a month and eight straight losses since Utah opened the season with its only victory. The Utes, who have...

Thursday's NCAAB Plays

Savannah State at Wisconsin Badgers (-27, 111) Wisconsin looks to head into final exams on a positive note when it hosts Savannah State. The No. 15 Badgers are coming off a t...

Winning games on the floor

is one thing, and winning at the college basketball betting window is something entirely different. But occasionally, teams put the two together and the outcome is a beautiful...

Wednesday's NCAAB Plays

Iona Gaels at Richmond Spiders (Pick ‘em, 145.5) The Iona Gaels had a seven-game winning streak at Marshall on Sunday, but they left a lasting impression on the Herd. �...

Tuesday's NCAAB Plays

Wisconsin Badgers at UW-Milwaukee Panthers (10, 112) Wisconsin looks to continue its recent dominance of an in-state rival when it travels to Milwaukee on Tuesday night. The ...

Who says college basketball

doesn't get exciting until March? One big brawl and the top two teams in the nation going down in defeat highlighted the past weekend. A couple of ranked mid-majors also suff...

Monday's NCAAB Plays

Portland State at Oregon (-14.5, 145) Oregon seeks to remain unbeaten at home when Portland State buses down Interstate 5 for Monday’s game in Eugene. The Ducks are 4-0 at ...

Sunday's NCAAB Plays

Murray State Racers at Memphis Tigers (-11, 139) Memphis is already battle-tested heading into Sunday’s home game against Murray State. And that could be a good thing becau...

With only one college football

game on the go, the Saturday schedule belongs to NCAA hoops. Here are the best games to watch and wager this weekend: Duke Blue Devils vs. Washington Huskies at Madison Squa...

Saturday's NCAAB PLays

Michigan State Spartans at Gonzaga Bulldogs (-3.5, 139) Even though the Spartans have won seven straight games and have covered the last three pointspreads they’ve seen, co...

The health status of Ohio State

big man Jared Sullinger against the Kansas Jayhawks is the big question heading into a great weekend of college basketball. ESPN will broadcast this 3:15 p.m. (ET) contest on ...

Friday's NCAAB Plays

Richmond Spiders vs. VCU Rams (-3.5, 128) With a light schedule on tap for Friday, the Spiders and Rams will welcome in ESPN2 to take in the annual Black and Blue Classic at ...

COLLEGE HOOPS NEWS AND NOTES

By Steve Merril ACC Miami is a talented team provided they have all of their pieces on the court, but unfortunately for new head coach Jim Larranaga (George Mason), the U sc...

Thursday's NCAAB Plays

Harvard Crimson at UConn Huskies (-6.5, 129.5) No. 24 Harvard figured it would get a crack at No. 9 Connecticut in the championship game of the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament o...

The Florida Gators are happy

to be in Gainesville on Wednesday night as they face the Arizona Wildcats in a college basketball betting matchup at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center. The No....

Harvard and Creighton

are slowly joining the ranks of the Gonzaga's and Butler's of the world in terms of exposure. In this week's mid-major report, we take a quick look at quality teams that are st...

College Basketball Trends by Marc L...

Washington vs Duke – Wash: 8-1 as DD non-conf dogs… 3-1 vs ACC / Duke: 4-1 vs Pac-10… 1-4 as neutral favs 7 > pts Cincinnati @ Xavier – Cincy: 7-1 A vs non-conf reveng...

Tuesday's NCAAB Plays

Washington vs. Marquette (-6, 156.5) Two of the nation's highest-scoring teams clash when No. 16 Marquette takes on Washington in the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden...

Final exams for the fall term

will be prevalent on college campuses the next couple of weeks, leaving the college basketball schedule a bit lighter than recent weeks as far as marquee matchups. That's espe...

Monday's NCAAB Plays

St. John's at Detroit (+1.5, 144) With its recent run against non-conference ranked opponents coming to an end, St. John’s hopes to get back on track against Detroit on Mon...

Sunday's College Hoops-

Baylor Bears at Northwestern Wildcats Something will have to give when Baylor visits Northwestern on Sunday. Both teams are undefeated, with Baylor coming in at 6-0 and North...

Saturday's College Hoops

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at Tulane Green Wave (-1, 121) Tulane (8-0) is off to its best start since the 1991-92 team started 13-0. The Green Wave is doing it with defe...

Two of the nation’s traditional

powers collide when No. 5 North Carolina visits No. 1 Kentucky. It’s the 12th straight season the two marquee programs have met, but the home-and-home series is in danger...

Syracuse Orange in a Fine mess........

The Syracuse Orange basketball team is in a ‘fine’ mess thanks to former assistant Bernie Fine, but they’ll try to block out the distractions Friday night hosting the Fl...

Friday's NCAAB Plays

Cincinnati Bearcats at Georgia Bulldogs (-1, 119.5) It has not been a smooth start to the season for Cincinnati, but the Bearcats hope to build off Tuesday’s victory over M...

Thursday's College Hoops

Georgetown Hoyas at Alabama Crimson Tide (-8, 126.5) No one can penalize Alabama for playing a weak schedule this year. The No. 12-ranked and unbeaten Crimson Tide takes ...

Early Surprise from the Ivy League

-Harvard Crimson (6-0 SU, 4-0 ATS) The smartest team in college basketball could also be the smartest bet. The Crimson were picked to win the Ivy League, and have played up t...

Goliath home after slaying...........

A solid week of college hoops action continues Wednesday night with a top 10 matchup to conclude the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. The North Carolina Tar Heels are back home following...

Virginia heads into Tuesday’s date

with the Michigan Wolverines owning one of the country’s best defenses. The Cavaliers are giving up just 45.3 points per game on 33.5 percent shooting, but they haven’t fac...

Like so many of us, the Ohio State

Buckeyes battled through a turkey hangover when they got back to work following Thanksgiving weekend. They went into the half against Valparaiso up just four points. Luckil...

The Musketeers are coming

off likely their best performance of the season and they’ll need to keep that momentum going in their biggest test of the season Monday. Xavier moved to 4-0 straight up w...

The Cardinals keep getting it done,

even though coach Rick Pitino insists they’re just trying to make it through this month. Louisville improved to 5-0 straight up with a 59-54 victory over Ohio as a big 16...

The Cougars (3-1) are out to avenge

last year’s 79-63 loss at TCU (3-2). Houston is coming off a 76-74 loss to Oakland in which junior forward Kirk Van Slyke scored 28 and sophomore forward Alandise Harris ...

Penn State is off to a 5-1 start,

but it’s not like the Nittany Lions have played a murderer’s row. They were waxed 85-47 by Kentucky a week ago. And they didn’t exactly manhandle Youngstown State on ...

NIT Season Tip-Off action:

Fifth-ranked Syracuse meets Stanford in the championship game of the NIT Season Tip-Off at Madison Square Garden. The Orange beat Virginia Tech 69-58 in the semifinals, while t...

After last season, Georgia

coach Mark Ford expected to have at least one of his top two prospects back for this year. That didn’t happen as both Trey Thompkins and Travis Leslie declared for the NBA. ...

Nobody ever said playing for Rick

Pitino was easy. He demands a lot out of his players with the systems he installs, but when everybody can get on the same page, Louisville can be tough to beat. So far it l...

Like so many teams this time of year,

the Wake Forest Demon Deacons are going through a learning curve right now. They’re still looking to get comfortable with systems and need these early games to get on the sam...

UConn may not have Kemba Walker

to hit their big shots this season, but it looks like they have a couple of guys ready to handle the scoring load. ...

Anyone needing a little extra to

give thanks for this time of year need look no further than college basketball. With the NBA still in full juvenile mode, collegiate hoops is alive, well and thriving. Sin Ci...

COLLEGE HOOPS NEWS AND NOTES

By Steve Merril ACC: North Carolina is the No. 1 team in the country and a +200 favorite to win the national title. The Tar Heels are 3-0, but they’ve played nothing in...

To the casual sports fan,

Arizona’s 4-1 straight up start to the season looks pretty good. College hoops bettors know better. The Wildcats are only 1-4 against the spread and this is already shapi...

Amid all the controversy surrounding

the investigation of Bernie Fine, the Syracuse Orange just keep doing their thing as they get ready for the NIT semifinal. For the record, coach Jim Boeheim reiterated his ...

The Tar Heels received 62 of a

possible 65 No. 1 overall votes in this week’s AP poll but coach Roy Williams isn’t satisfied. UNC is coming off a 101-75 victory over Mississippi Valley State that saw...

Last week we told you to

be careful betting the Pitt Panthers early in the year. Hopefully you listened. Pitt was stunned 86-76 by Long Beach State in its home opener, dropping the cash as a fat 13...

Kansas coach Bill Self has

no illusions about his club at this point in the season. The Jayhawks have potential, but they were in over their heads in a 75-65 loss against Kansas last week as 6.5-point un...

It wasn’t pretty, but the Michigan

Wolverines did take some positives away from a 59-55 squeaker of a win over Western Illinois. "We needed a game like that, to kind of wake us up a little bit," Jordan Morga...

Another all-undefeated matchup

on Sunday pits a pair of 3-0, 1-0 ATS teams in Iowa and Creighton. They already have one common opponent in the form of none other than the Chicago State Cougars. Iowa domin...

Something will have to give

when Washington and Saint Louis square off on Sunday afternoon. Combined, the Huskies (3-0, 2-1 ATS) and Billikens (2-0, 2-0 ATS) are 5-0 and 4-1 ATS. St. Louis is coming of...

Clemson, picked to finish seventh

in the ACC, held its first two opponents to 31 percent shooting or less with relentless defense. The Tigers (2-0) won by an average of 22 points. Senior guard Andre Young is...

James Madison returned four

starters from last year’s 21-12 squad that appeared in the CBI post-season tourney. The Dukes, picked to finish fifth in the Colonial Athletic Association, opened with an ...

After notching his historic 903rd

victory at Madison Square Garden, Mike Krzyzewski brings his Blue Devils back to Cameron Indoor Stadium. It was a great night for Coach K on Tuesday, but don’t expect any sor...

Early in the year,

so coaches will try to hammer a system into his team, forcing it upon its players in hopes that it will eventually become second nature. You wouldn’t classify Marquette bench...

Today's College Hoops Action...

The Renardo Sidney experiment continues as the Bulldogs and Aggies tangle in the semifinals of the Coaches vs. Cancer Sidney, the 6-foot-10, 270-pound mystery, is expected t...

The second week of college basketball

action is in full swing with a couple of marquee matchups in the books and a few key early tournaments set to tip over the next few days. Dominating the headlines is Duke's 74...

Fullcourt Press..........

ACC The Atlantic Coast Conference has undergone a major coaching turnover this season. Never in its 58-year history has the ACC had four new coaches in one season. The ne...

Deacons might need a prayer...

When C.J. Harris and Travis McKie hit the bench midway through the second half of Wake Forest’s opener, coach Jeff Bzdelik had to be holding his breath. He must have been ...

Pitt Panthers in flux-

Over the past few years, the Pitt Panthers have been a tough team to get a read on. This season it could be even worse. With 10 underclassmen trying to come together on the ...

The two winningest programs

in Division I square off when No. 13 Kansas and No. 2 Kentucky meet in the State Farm Champions Classic at Madison Square Garden. Kentucky (2,053 wins) will try to add to its r...

Kentucky coach John Calipari

knows how important it is for his young Wildcats to get out to a solid start to the season, but it doesn’t sound like everyone’s on the same page yet. “This is a grea...

With all eyes on Duke coach

Mike Krzyzewski as he looks for his 903rd career win, Michigan State is getting lost in the shuffle. If nothing else, you have to admire the Spartans’ gumption for starti...

Gonzaga picked up a win

in its opener, but it wasn’t nearly enough to get Zags bettors to the pay window. The Bulldogs prevailed 77-69 over Eastern Washington on Veteran’s Day but didn’t com...

If the Richmond Spiders

are going to make another inspiring run in the NCAA Tournament, they have a lot of work ahead of them. With just one returning starter from last season’s squad that went ...

Sportsbooks aren’t paying much

attention to college basketball right now. Wednesday’s MAC football showdown between Miami (Ohio) and Temple easily generated more betting action than any of the four coll...

In a game dubbed the Carrier Classic,

top-ranked North Carolina will square off against Michigan State outdoors on an aircraft carrier docked in the Naval Harbor in San Diego. President Obama is scheduled to attend...

For a sport that closes with

such dramatic action in March, the college basketball season sure does begin with little or no fanfare. Making it even stranger this year is the fact there is no NBA to distra...

The Aggies are going to have

to deal with an unexpected speed bump early this season as they deal with being one of the Big 12’s favorites. After Billy Kennedy was hired to man the bench back in May, ...

The college basketball season

takes a little time to get rolling. Outside of some major tuneup tournaments, the early schedule is littered with one-sided warmup games between power conference programs and m...

The No. 16 ranked Arizona Wildcats

could have a tougher game than expected when they host Valparaiso Crusaders in the 2K Sports Coaches vs. Cancer Classic on Monday night. This is the official start of the 2011...

It seems like only yesterday

that the Final Four was being played in Houston, and the buzz was all about Butler remarkably making it back to the NCAA title game two years running. Connecticut’s suffocat...

This could be a big year

for college basketball. Maybe even the biggest. Thanks to the NBA lockout, NCAA hoops might be the saving grace for those bettors with a severe basketball jones. And, thanks...

Nobody thought they’d be back.

But the Butler Bulldogs, who came up just shy of a national title last season, have returned to the NCAA championship game to face another blueblood. The tiny school from India...

Butler is 7-0 ATS dating back

to the Horizon League tournament. If only one Cinderella can go to the ball, it might as well be coach Brad Stevens and his Butler Bulldogs. They meet the Connecticut Huskies ...

NCAA Final Four's biggest betting m...

....VCU Rams vs. Butler Bulldogs (-2.5, 133.5) VCU’s 3-point shooting vs. Butler’s 3-point defense The No. 11 Rams have been a decent 3-point shooting squad all season...

Jay Rood, sportsbook manager at

the MGM Mirage, deserves a raise. He saved his bosses some money by taking notice of Virginia Commonwealth before the tournament. “They came out here on the West Coast ear...

Two nights before the Final Four

begins with one of the most unpredictable fields in history, two would-be Cinderellas will square off at Madison Square Garden to determine the best of the rest. Alabama and Wi...

The Wichita State Shockers

didn’t have much trouble advancing to the finals of the NIT by absolutely hammering Washington State 75-44 on Tuesday night. While the final score might have been a little...

It's been a long time since

the Alabama Crimson Tide played a postseason game with this much riding on the outcome. Thursday night in New York City, 'Bama will get a chance to erase a lot of disappointme...

Kentucky's long and athletic defense,

which holds opponents to 39 percent shooting, faces its stiffest test yet when the Wildcats meet UConn and prolific scorer Kemba Walker in the second national semifinal Saturda...

The favorites are all gone.

None of the first or second seeds are heading to Houston this weekend for the Final Four, no doubt to the dismay of CBS. Madness, indeed. In a tournament rife with upsets, i...

The Connecticut Huskies and Kentucky

Wildcats meet for the second time this season, this one in Saturday’s Final Four for a chance to play for the national title. The Don Best odds screen has Kentucky as 2 ½-p...

The Final Four!

By Jim Feist It is a great weekend for sports fans with the Final Four and the culmination of the college basketball season next Monday in Houston for the national championship...

At one point this season,

Virginia Commonwealth was 9,999-1 to win the NCAA tournament at the Las Vegas Hilton sportsbook. At 5,000 to 1, Hilton book manager Jay Kornegay took a $10 bet on the Rams ...

It’s onward to Houston

for the Final Four games. To put the wraps on the 2011 NCAA Tournament, listed below are some interesting trends and angles to consider before our Fab Four tips off this weeken...

Wichita State aims

to continue its surprising postseason run when the fourth-seeded Shockers meet No. 2 seed Washington State in the NIT semifinals on Tuesday in New York City. Wichita State boas...

As the action on the hardwood heated

up en route to the Final Four this past weekend, so did the stakes and money changing hands in Las Vegas sportsbooks. If the opening rounds can best be described as a four-day ...

The NIT can be a very

tough tournament to handicap, especially when you’re looking at teams dealing with the disappointment of missing out on the NCAA Tournament. But the Colorado Buffaloes pu...

While the NCAA Tournament was busy

deciding its Final Four, the last quartet remaining in the 2011 National Invitation Tournament was waiting. And waiting. And waiting. The wait ends Tuesday night when the Wi...

While the big boys in the big dance

are all headed into the Final Four this weekend, the NIT is just getting revved up with its Final Four as well. Madison Square Garden will be the site for the Tuesday night cl...

Kentucky has emerged as

the favorite to win the NCAA tournament. Jay Rood, sportsbook manager at the MGM Mirage in Las Vegas, made the Wildcats +160 favorites to win it all right after John Calipar...

So, David's matchup with Goliath

last April wasn't a fluke after all. Brad Stevens and the Butler Bulldogs are headed back to the Final Four following their run through the NCAA's Southeast Region. The under...

Kemba Walker and the Connecticut

Huskies are back in the Final Four. Boy, are they back. The wins just keep on comin' for Jim Calhoun and UConn who return to the Final four for a second time in three seasons...

Playing in a Southwest regional

that included three double-digit seeds, anything less than domination would be unacceptable for No. 1 seed Kansas. Consider the first test passed with flying colors. No. 11 see...

The top-seed Kansas Jayhawks

look to advance to their second Final Four in four years when they play the No. 11 Virginia Commonwealth Rams on Sunday. The Don Best odds screen has Kansas as 10 ½-point fav...

They've combined for 12 NCAA titles,

been to the Final Four 31 times and have upped their Elite Eight appearances now to 57. Yeah, I'd say that makes for a matchup of storied programs on Sunday when the North Car...

Say Goodbye to The Little Sisters

by Bob Dietz Now that The Little Sisters of The Poor (aka The Big 10) have been dispatched, what have we learned about the NCAA men's tournament? Well, first of all, the...

Arizona Wildcats vs. Connecticut Hu...

THE STORY: Two teams that have surrounded their superstar with effective role players clash in the West Region final in Anaheim Saturday when No. 3 seed UConn and No. 5 Arizona...

The last two NCAA tournament meetings

between Florida and Butler were thrillers. Why should we expect anything different when the second-seeded Gators and eighth-seeded Bulldogs face off in the Southeast Regional f...

Neither team appeared to be

on a collision course for a deep run in the NCAA Tournament just a few weeks ago. Both the Connecticut Huskies and Arizona Wildcats now look unstoppable as they prepare to tan...

Even after last season’s near miss,

the betting markets haven’t given Butler its proper due. What else do the Bulldogs need to do to earn respect? Butler, a mid-major power from the Horizon League, has won at...

A spot in the Final Four

is on the line Saturday when 8th-seeded Butler faces 2nd-seeded Florida in the final of the Southeast Region. The Bulldogs are trying to reach the Final Four for the second co...

(4) Kentucky Wildcats

vs. (1) Ohio State Buckeyes East Regional Semifinals - Newark Time/TV: Friday, March 25, 6:45 p.m. (PT) CBS Odds: Buckeyes by 5½, total at 140 Jared Sullinger was four the...

(11) Virginia Commonwealth Rams

vs. (10) Florida State Seminoles Southwest Regional Semifinals - San Antonio Time/TV: Friday, March 25, 6:57 p.m. (PT) TBS Odds: Seminoles by 3½, total at 131 Looking for ...

No knock on Richmond,

but things couldn’t haven fallen any better for Kansas in the Southwest Regional of the NCAA Tournament. The Jayhawks are 10 ½-point favorites against the Spiders in their ...

(11) Marquette Golden Eagles

s vs. (2) North Carolina Tar Heels East Regional Semifinals - Newark Time/TV: Friday, March 25, 4:15 p.m. (PT) CBS Odds: Tar Heels by 4½, total at 149½ Marquette, one of o...

Marquette, a No. 11 seed,

looks to keep its unexpected postseason run going when it faces second-seeded North Carolina in an East Regional semifinal on Friday in Newark, N.J. The Big East Conference sen...

(3) Brigham Young Cougars vs. (2) F...

Southeast Regional - New Orleans Time/TV: Thursday, March 24, 4:27 p.m. (PT) TBS Odds: Florida by 3, total at 149 Unless a bunch of LSU fans show up to express disgust with ...

Wisconsin Badgers chalk

to take down Butler Bulldogs on NCAA odds Butler (25-9 straight up, 17-13-2 against the spread) has crashed the Southeast Region party, and is trying to advance to its second F...

(5) Arizona Wildcats vs. (1) Duke B...

West Regional Semifinals - Anaheim Time/TV: Thursday, March 24, 6:45 p.m. (PT) CBS Odds: Duke by 8½, total at 145 It's all about survival this time of year on the college h...

The second-seeded San Diego State A...

could have a sizable homecourt advantage when they face the third-seeded Connecticut Huskies in the Sweet 16 on Thursday. Connecticut is slim one-point ‘chalk’ with a tota...

Five years ago, Cinderella

got past midnight and extended the dance beyond the opening weekend. Everyone was in awe back in 2006 with No. 11-seeded George Mason’s improbable run to the Final Four. ...

The Hurricanes and Tide square

off for a chance to take part in the NIT semifinals at Madison Square Garden in a match that pits Miami’s hot offense against Alabama’s tight defense. Miami has put up ...

Like a lot of folks,

I had the Kansas Jayhawks advancing through the Southwest Region into the Sweet 16. In fact, my bracket has Bill Self's crew repping the SW at the Final Four in Houston a coup...

The NCAA Tournament has proven

once again that it is the best sporting event on the planet. Now that the chaos of the first weekend is out of the way, the Sweet 16 remains with a few notable surprises. The...

Tourney Matchup Tips

By Jim Feist It's the final stretch of a long college basketball season. There are better teams, tougher matchups, and defensive intensity. It's a good time of the season t...

Barkley is Right; I was Wrong

by Bob Dietz It pains me, but Charles Barkley is correct, and I was embarrassingly wrong. The 2010-11 Big East is not a dominant men's basketball conference. It may be a...

NCAA Geography: 2000 Miles to Tucson

by Bob Dietz In these days of economic hard times, high fuel costs, and belt-tightening in higher education, it's good to know that the NCAA men's tournament selection comm...

Well, has all this Madness

left your bankroll plump or pathetic? Either way, bettors have a few days to regroup before the Sweet 16 tips off Thursday in what has been another thrilling, upset-filled ...

Sweet 16 round notes:

- No. 1 seed favorites of less than 11 points off back-to-back straight up (SU) and against the spread (ATS) wins are 18-5 ATS - No. 2 seeds are 12-5 ATS vs. opponents off a...

You can’t blame the Golden Flashes

for being pretty pleased about their run in the NIT so far. They became the first team to win its first two games on the road since the tournament switched back to 32 teams in ...

So, how sweet is your bracket

now that the NCAA Tournament field has been whittled down to 16? Mine saw an early mix of mix of sweet and sour, the biggest blow Wisconsin's win over Kansas State knocking my...

Like the other brackets,

the NCAA Tournament West Regional has similar storylines heading into the Sweet 16. There’s a strong No. 1 seed in defending champion Duke. There’s a Cinderella team, Ariz...

The Ohio State Buckeyes are

backing up their No. 1 seed in the East Region, and the entire NCAA tourney, and oddsmakers love their chance to make the Final Four. Bodog.com has Ohio State as the prohibiti...

One of the Shockers’ best players...

Forward Ben Smith, the Missouri Valley Conference’s sixth man of the year, is averaging 5.2 points over his past five contests – about two points below his season average. ...

Third-round action, formally known

as the second round, of the 2011 NCAA Tournament tips off this weekend. To help you sift through the games at hand, here are some notes and trends for this year’s dance. Note ...

The No.9 seed George Mason Patriots

will try and make another improbable run in a NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament when they take on the No.1 seed Ohio State Buckeyes in Sunday’s third round of the East Regio...

Everywhere you turned on Selection ...

there seemed to be one analyst or another pointing out that Virginia Commonwealth had no business in the NCAA Tournament. Instead, it's the Rams who have so far been giving th...

Coaches are usually pleased when

their team scores over 100 points, hits better than 50 percent from the field, hauls in 52 rebounds and blocks 10 shots. Roy Williams was indeed happy when his North Carolina ...

Two teams that know each other

well meet on Saturday in the NCAA Tournament as 6th-seeded Cincinnati takes on 3rd-seeded Connecticut. The Huskies have been rolling lately thanks to point guard Kemba Walker ...

Eighth-seed Butler will try

and carry the momentum from Thursday's last-second win in Thursday's opening round into Saturday's Southeast Region matchup against the top-seeded Pittsburgh Panthers. The Bul...

Did you really think Belmont could

upset Wisconsin in the first-round of the NCAA Tournament? That didn’t happen with the Badgers winning 72-58 on Thursday as four-point favorites with the combined 130 points...

They both took care of business

with wins and covers as first-round favorites. Now the San Diego State Aztecs and Temple Owls will lace up their sneakers for Saturday's matchup to decide who heads to Anaheim...

Consider this matchup an appetizer

for next season when Colorado joins Cal in what will become the Pac-12. California squeaked past Mississippi 77-74 in the opening round of the NIT, backed by a big game fro...

As winners of the Pac-10 Conference

Tournament, the Washington Huskies knew they were going to the NCAA Tournament. Unfortunately for the Huskies, they were chosen for the East Regional in Charlotte, N.C. That�...

The Pac-10 Arizona Wildcats

return from a one-year hiatus in the NCAA tournament to face Conference USA’s Memphis Tigers on Friday. Bookmaker.com has Arizona as 5 ½-point favorites with a total of 139...

The George Mason Patriots

and Villanova Wildcats are in the 8/9 game in the East Region. These two will fight it out in NCAA Tournament betting action on Friday afternoon at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleve...

Purdue (25-7 straight up,

18-11 against the spread) earned the third seed in the Southwest Region, and squares off against 14th-seed St. Peter’s (20-13 SU, 20-7 ATS) in Friday’s matchup. The Boiler...

The NCAA Tournament is about matchu...

pure and simple. So if you’re looking to base your bracket on what happened to a random No. 13 seed in 1985, I’d suggest moving on now (or challenging me to a bracket conte...

Separated by fewer than 200 miles

in Pennsylvania, No. 7 Temple and No. 10 Penn State will travel more than 2,000 miles to play Thursday’s second-round game of the NCAA tournament in Tucson. Penn State earned...

Rebounding, ball control

and 3-point shooting figure to make the difference when Louisville and Morehead State meet Thursday in Denver. The Cardinals, who exceeded expectations this season in a rough-a...

It will be the tortoise and

the hare when methodical Princeton and fast-paced Kentucky meet Thursday in the second round of the NCAA tournament in Tampa, Fla. Kentucky was very impressive while sweeping t...

Two of the hottest teams

in the nation collide in a first-round NCAA Tournament Southeast Region game when eighth-seeded Butler and ninth-seeded Old Dominion meet Thursday at 9:40 a.m. PT in Washington...

Penn State and Temple are

two schools in eastern Pennsylvania separated by less than 200 miles, but they will travel across country to battle in the NCAA Tournament. The 10th-seeded Nittany Lions and s...

The fourth-seeded Wisconsin Badgers

look to end a streak of tournament futility when they meet the 13th-seed Belmont Bruins on Thursday night. Wisconsin is just a 4 ½-point favorite despite the disparity in see...

Virginia Commonwealth, which many say

stole a bid that should have gone to Colorado or Virginia Tech, gets to defend its reputation Wednesday in Dayton, Ohio, when it plays battle-tested USC in a play-in game. The ...

The two lowest-rated teams in the RPI

to qualify for the NCAA tournament meet in the first round, as Texas-San Antonio takes on Alabama State on Wednesday in Dayton, Ohio. The victor will try to become the first No...

The NIT is full of teams that are

happy to keep playing, but can’t help but think what might have been. Nebraska is one of those clubs after the Cornhuskers lost and failed to cover in four of its last five g...

Is there any chance Kansas could

be the first No. 1 seed to lose a first-round NCAA Tournament game since the current system began in 1985? The 32-2 Jayhawks meet 16th-seed Boston University Friday at 3:50 p....

A pair of schools at the center

of recent controversy go head-to-head in a First Four contest on Wednesday when the Southern Cal Trojans face the Virginia Commonwealth Rams. Tip-off from Dayton Arena in Ohio...

The Southeast Region has one

of the best first-round matchups Thursday night when the sixth-seed St. John’s Red Storm face the 11th-seed Gonzaga Bulldogs. Bookmaker.com has St. John’...

Tournament Predictions by Bob Dietz

Unlike years past, when I've criticized the selection committee for shoe-horning Big East teams into the tournament at the expense of deserving "mid-majors," this year I feel t...

Clemson and Alabama-Birmingham--

two of the final four at-large teams included in the field—collide Tuesday in the newly expanded first round of the NCAA tournament. It’s a brutal turnaround, travel-wise, f...

Cinderellas square off in Dayton,

Ohio on Tuesday night when North Carolina-Asheville plays Arkansas-Little Rock in a battle of No. 16 seeds. The Bulldogs are making their second NCAA tournament appearance, the...

Whether or not you like

this new First Four format the NCAA Tournament is adopting this year, you have to admit this is a very interesting matchup. The Tigers and Blazers square off for the right to b...

March Hoops: Beware of

the No-Name Teams by Jim Feist It's that time of year again: Basketball games night and day, day and night and after a few hours of sleep, we wake up the next day an...

The Super Secret Formula

by Integrity Sports...I've discovered the secret formula the men's tournament selection committee is currently using to assign seeds, and I'm going to share it with you. But fir...

Tony Sinisi, head oddsmaker

for the Las Vegas Sports Consultants, released his line recommendations for all 36 first and second round games. “I’ve done all the d...

Time to put the soapboxes away

and concentrate on what is instead of what if. All the debates, speculation and discussions on airwaves and around water coolers this past week or two evaporated in less than ...

Selection Sunday was not

without its normal drama as the field of 68 teams for this year’s NCAA Men’s Tournament was unveiled. Despite the fact the field was extended by three teams this season to ...

A No. 1 seed has won March

Madness the last four years and nine of the last 12. That has fans of the Ohio State Buckeyes, Kansas Jayhawks, Pittsburgh Panthers and Duke Blue Devils dreaming of a national ...

Jimmer Fredette.

Jimmer Fredette! Jimmer Fredette? Jimmer Fredette. Did I mention that you are going to get to watch Jimmer Fredette in this game? The NCAA scoring leader at 28.5 points per...

Smoking the Seeds: 2011

by Integrity Sports....Each year at this time, I do the men's NCAA tournament selection committee a great favor. I attribute their twisted logic and perverse machinations not to...

The 2011 NCAA Tournament has

arrived and with it one final chance to pad our bankrolls for the season. To make that shining moment happen, let’s take a look at how teams in this event have fared most rec...

Duke and North Carolina

will make their 30th appearances in Sunday's ACC tournament final at Greensboro, N.C. The ACC tournament has been referred to as the Duke Invitational of late because the Blue ...

Top-ranked Ohio State seeks

a second straight Big Ten tournament title and an overall No. 1 seed for the upcoming NCAA tournament when it plays surprising Penn State on Sunday. The Buckeyes, who won two e...

Kentucky tries to repeat

as SEC tournament champion - and win its 28th conference title - when the No. 16 Wildcats face No. 12 Florida in Sunday’s final in Atlanta. Both teams were impressive in the ...

It's certainly not the Big Ten

Championship matchup everyone expected. The top-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes, a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament now secure, will be the anticipated half of Sunday's contest at...

The Big East Conference Tournament

comes to a dramatic conclusion Saturday from Madison Square Garden when the Connecticut Huskies meet the Louisville Cardinals. Connecticut (25-9 straight-up, 17-11 against t...

Jimmer Fredette made his strongest

pitch yet for National Player of the Year honors on Friday but he has more work to do Saturday as No. 8 Brigham Young meets No. 6 San Diego State in the Mountain West Conferenc...

No. 15 Arizona seeks to

sweep both the regular season and Pac-10 tournament titles when the Wildcats face off against Washington in the Pac-10 finals Saturday afternoon. The Wildcats reached the Pac-1...

To say Kansas is the team

to beat in the Big 12 tournament would be an understatement. The top-seeded Jayhawks will try for their fifth tournament title in six years - and eighth in the league's 14-year...

Kentucky goes on the second

leg of its Payback Tour, looking to avenge another regular-season loss. After taking out Ole Miss on Friday, the Wildcats will be out to even the score against Alabama. This gam...

Clemson all but assured

itself of an NCAA tournament appearance after throttling Boston College 70-47 in Friday’s ACC tournament quarterfinal. Top-seeded North Carolina is riding high after storming...

Teams that overcame second-half

deficits meet Saturday when archrivals Ohio State and Michigan play for a third time this season in the Big Ten Conference semifinals. The Buckeyes trailed Northwestern by thre...

With the way Kemba Walker is playin...

now, No. 19 Connecticut certainly looks capable of becoming the first team to win five games in five days at the Big East tournament. Standing in the way is another team that i...

Any hope of the North Carolina

Any hope of the North Carolina Tar Heels securing one of the four No. 1 seeds in the upcoming NCAA Tournament appeared dead for most of Friday's ACC quarterfinal matchup with th...

Few teams are playing as well

as No. 12 Florida, which meets Tennessee on Friday in the SEC quarterfinals at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. The Gators have won eight of nine and earned a first-round bye as th...

When No. 2 seed Duke

and No. 7 Maryland clash in an ACC tournament quarterfinal Friday in Greensboro, N.C., it should be an offensive show. Both teams average at least 77 points per game. Duke has ...

After cruising to impressive wins

in the quarterfinals, top seed Arizona and fourth-seeded Southern Cal meet Friday in the semifinals of the Pac-10 tournament in Los Angeles. Pac-10 Player of the Year Derrick W...

If top-seeded Kansas was

going to be put on upset alert at this week's Big 12 tournament, it wasn't expected to happen before Friday's semifinals. But after surviving a scare against Oklahoma State in ...

No. 1-ranked Ohio State begins

its Big Ten tournament title defense Friday afternoon against Northwestern at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The Buckeyes’ are the No. 1 seed for the fifth time since it...

Ninth-seeded Connecticut is

attempting to make history as the first school to win the Big East Championship by playing five games in five days. After Kemba Walker’s heroics in the quarterfinals on Thurs...

The Illini and Wolverines

are both on the NCAA bubble and looking for a big victory Friday so they can breathe a little easier. The young Wolverines have been one of the nation’s best betting team...

The Michigan Wolverines and Illinois

Fighting Illini both have a lot to play for when the Big Ten Tournament continues Friday from Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Illinois is an early three-point favorite at ...

A pair of teams who started

the season in promising fashion before going cold will do battle when Minnesota and Northwestern meet in the opening round of the Big Ten Tournament on Thursday afternoon. Barr...

Conference tournament season

is upon us and while the teams battle it out for top seeds and at-large resume boosters, college hoops bettors will be tangling with the day-to-day handicapping of these grueli...

It’s March, and that can only

mean one thing…Virginia Tech is back on the NCAA Tournament bubble! Seth Greenberg and company find themselves on the bubble yet again heading into the first round of the ...

Their status has slipped

a bit from a year ago, but the Bulldogs of both Butler and Gonzaga are preparing to dance once again. Butler brought the number to 11 teams to clinch an automatic bid to the N...

Greensboro Coliseum is the site

of this year’s ACC Tournament with the Maryland Terrapins versus the North Carolina State Wolfpack one of Thursday’s opening games. Maryland is an early 5 ½-point favorit...

Duke, Ohio State and Kansas

are the only teams to head the AP Top 25 poll but at different times this season, you could have made an argument for Pittsburgh or Texas as the nation’s best college basketb...

Both Nebraska and Oklahoma

State have shown moments of brilliance this season by knocking off ranked opponents. They'll probably need to sustain such a moment for four days in Kansas City to find their w...

Oregon State aims to win

its first Pac-10 Tournament game since 2006 when the ninth-seeded Beavers meet No. 8 seed Stanford in a first-round contest on Wednesday. Both teams have struggled of late, wit...

Neither Georgetown nor Connecticut

had the finish to the regular season that they were looking for over the past few weeks. After losing star senior point guard Chris Wright in late February, the 22nd-ranked Hoy...

Conference tournament season is upo...

and while the teams battle it out for top seeds and at-large resume boosters, college hoops bettors will be tangling with the day-to-day handicapping of these grueling tourname...

The Big 12 Tournament begins Wednesday

The Big 12 Tournament begins Wednesday at the Sprint Center in Kansas City and the Missouri Tigers will face the Texas Tech Red Raiders and recently fired coach Pat Knight. Boo...

The Big Ten begins its conference t...

Thursday in Indianapolis, and is expecting six teams to advance to the NCAA Tournament. That is unless some teams play themselves into or out of the Big Dance the next couple ...

The Value of Senior Leadership

by Jim Feist It's time! Time for college basketball teams to begin conference tourney play, also known as separating the contenders from the pretenders. It's important to unders...

The Marquette Golden Eagles’

game plan for Tuesday’s matchup with Providence is no big secret: shut down Marshon Brooks, who ranks second in the nation scoring 24.8 points per game. The thing that se...

Are the Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Panthers about to toss a wrench into the works? A win in Tuesday's Horizon League Championship over the Butler Bulldogs would surely cause a dilemma for the NCAA Tournament se...

New York City’s Madison Square

Garden hosts the Big East Tournament this week, and the conference has a chance to advance a record 11 teams to the upcoming NCAA Tournament. There are a couple of interesting...

It’s time once again for the most

wonderful week of the year: Championship Week. Don’t overlook these crucial factors as you look to fatten your bank roll. BOX SCORES MIGHT LIE – SEASON STATS DON’T...

Breaking from the usual look

at where the top-10 teams will be in action over the next seven days, here's a quick rundown of the 10 conference tournaments and their No. 1 seeds that are on this week's coll...

Top-ranked Ohio State looks

to win the Big Ten regular season crown outright when it hosts No. 10 Wisconsin Sunday afternoon. The Buckeyes will also be out to avenge their first defeat of the season, a 71...

Seminoles star Chris Singleton

went down with a broken foot two weeks ago and all seemed lost for his team. But now, the only thing standing between Florida State and sole possession of third place in the At...

College basketball’s regular

season comes to a close Sunday before the conference and tournament madness begins. The Southeastern Conference wraps up its regular campaign during an early tipoff when 23rd-...

The Ohio State Buckeyes look

to wrap up a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tourney, and get some revenge in the process, when they host the Wisconsin Badgers on Sunday afternoon. The Buckeyes (28-2 straight-up, 14-...

The Aztecs are looking to

make Senior Night that much more special by hanging a Mountain West Conference championship banner from the rafters. With BYU slumping down the stretch following Brandon Da...

The Irish are right there again

in the scoring column averaging 75.7 points a game, 38th-best in the nation. But as the Irish get ready to face 16th-ranked Connecticut on the road Saturday at 11 a.m. PT on E...

Saturday's matchup in Pittsburgh

between the host Panthers and Villanova Wildcats has been circled on many a calendar since schedules were released last year. Co-favorites in the Big East, the Pitt, 'Nova bat...

Texas will try and avoid

losing three straight betting games for the first time in more than two years when the Longhorns visit Baylor on Saturday night. It wasn’t that long ago that Texas was saili...

The beginning of March Madness

makes coaches act differently. Some, like North Carolina’s Roy Williams, become apathetic and shift their mind to the golf course, while their team goes through the motio...

There’s no denying Harvard

is one of the top teams in the Ivy League this year. But the Crimson aren’t that great as a large favorite. When listed as double-digit chalk this season, Harvard is a les...

The Northern Iowa Panthers

were among the big stories in the 2010 NCAA Tournament that was dominated by solid runs by mid-majors. Ben Jacobson's squad danced its way into the Sweet 16 as a No. 9 seed, g...

Notre Dame edged UConn,

73-70, as 4-point home chalk back in January. Notre Dame always has been one of the better scoring teams in the Big East Conference under coach Mike Brey. The Irish are right...

St. John’s has made a habit

of putting Top 25 teams to shame all year and now has an opportunity to earn a double-bye in next weekend’s Big East Tournament with two wins to close out the regular season....

The Bruins are currently locked

in a first-place tie in the Pac-10 standings with Arizona at 12-4, while the Huskies are third at 10-6. If the regular season ended today, UCLA would be the second seed in the ...

The St. John’s Red Storm look

for their seventh consecutive win, both straight-up and against the spread, when they visit the Seton Hall Pirates on Thursday night. The Red Storm (19-9 SU, 14-13 ATS) are on...

There’s a major logjam in the

Big East and this week’s action will go a long way in determining the seeds for the conference tournament. Four teams are currently tied for seventh place and each is hoping ...

At least 10 Big East teams

await the call from the selection committee for this year's NCAA Tournament. That group includes Villanova who is in the throes of a horrible slide after sitting pretty as a l...

Despite suspensions, injuries

and losing key players from last season, the Kansas Jayhawks are in position to win a seventh consecutive Big 12 Conference title. The second-ranked Jayhawks host 24th-rated T...

Each year, there are a few

college basketball teams that save their best performances for this part of the season, the stretch run of the regular season and the conference tournament. Some teams might...

The Crimson Tide simply can’t

shoot from beyond the arc. The team is an abysmal 22-of-86 from downtown the past seven games and is making a mere 30 percent of its triples on the season. That’s bad news fo...

Tournament play is on the horizon!

Final Run to the Big 10 Title by Jim Feist It's the start of a wild few weeks with conference tournament play helping to whittle the field. In the Big 10, Ohio State made the...

March Madness begins with

conference play, and progresses to conference tournaments before graduating to the NCAA Tournament. Tuesday’s March 1 features a quality Big Ten matchup when Illinois (18-11...

There’s no denying Kentucky’s

outstanding talent. But it’s a stretch to call the youthful Wildcats a great team as evidenced by an 8-6 SEC mark. However, when playing in Rupp Arena the Wildcats are outst...

The big boys are still slugging

it out and bringing their regular season schedules to a close. Mid-majors, meanwhile, will begin conference tournaments this week with many of the winners ultimately the only ...

A suddenly reeling Texas

Longhorns squad returns home to host resurgent Kansas State in a key Big 12 clash at the Frank Erwin Center Monday night. HOUSE OF CARDS Texas blew a big first-half lead...

To say that Villanova is in

a tailspin would be an understatement. The team know for its three-point shooting, trapping defense and wide-open attack have failed to crack the 68-point barrier in four of...

Whoever is assigned the task

of putting together the video for the 2010-11 Villanova Wildcats basketball season might want to consider Paul Simon's Slip Slidin' Away for the theme music. A preseason No. 6...

A pair of Big 12 clubs coming

off opposite Saturday results collide in Austin on Monday night when the Texas Longhorns host the Kansas State Wildcats. Texas (24-5 straight up, 17-7 against the spread) retu...

If you've ever participated in or

watched a greased pig contest, then you're familiar with the most recent happenings in college basketball as the top spot in the two major polls has proven to be a slippery crit...

Remember last year's Pittsburgh

team, picked to finish ninth in the Big East but wound up with a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament? Louisville has been this year's 2009-10 Panthers, currently tied for third a...

Maryland coach Gary Williams

believes his only chance to reach the NCAA Tournament is to put the team in the hands of a freshman. First-year guard Terrell Stoglin is averaging 10.9 points and 3.3 assis...

At the risk of sounding like

a broken record, there's a huge Big East battle looming on Sunday's college basketball betting slate. The outcome of the matchup between the Pittsburgh Panthers and Louisville...

Jacob Pullen is finally looking

like the Big 12 Preseason Player of the Year. Pullen has dropped 27 points in consecutive games, including the team’s most recent four-point win at Nebraska. In the 61-57 win...

BYU Cougars at San Diego State

Aztecs (-3, 141) Will the winner of this game earn a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament? Maybe. It really all depends on whether they can run the table in the Mountain ...

Georgetown will be playing

its first game without point guard Chris Wright, who suffered a broken left hand in Wednesday's 58-46 loss to Cincinnati. Wright underwent successful surgery on Friday and coul...

ACC betting fans will love

to sink their teeth into this fantastic Sunday night showdown at the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill, as the North Carolina Tar Heels duke it out with the Maryland Terrapins. ...

Let’s be honest.

It hasn’t been a great season so far for college basketball out west. There are two exceptions – Brigham Young and San Diego State. The seventh-ranked Cougars take on No....

It's uncanny how schedules

work out sometimes, schedules that are often in the making several seasons before games are played. Things certainly worked out as far as the Missouri Valley Conference goes t...

The Summit League has been

a gold mine for betting college basketball totals. There’s no reason to think that’s going to change as we head into the final week of the regular season and the conference...

Fairfield is one of the top

defensive teams in the country. Opponents are scoring just 58.1 points per game (5th nationally), making just 39.8 percent of their field goals (27th) and nailing a meager 32.2...

Weekend must-wins abound

on the schedules for college basketball mid-majors. Next week when the big boys are closing their regular seasons, conferences like the West Coast, Missouri Valley, Colonial a...

March Madness is just around

the corner, and there is a quality Southeastern Conference matchup on Saturday’s schedule when 13th-ranked Florida (21-5 straight up, 9-13 against the spread) visits 22nd-ran...

Throughout the year, there has been

strong cases for the Missouri Valley Conference being on equal terms with ex-majors, like the WAC and Mountain West. There was even grumblings about the conference matching its...

The Bulldogs should call themselves

“The Fighting Mad Max’s,” because they truly are road warriors. Georgia is an outstanding, 7-2 SU and 7-1 ATS in lined away games this season. The seven road wins are...

West Virginia made the Final Four

last season and probably is one of the 35 best college basketball teams this season. Unfortunately for the Mountaineers they are tied for eighth place in the brutal Big East C...

It could be the last chance

for the Gonzaga Bulldogs to earn a place in the NCAA Tournament. A loss, even on the road against a tough team like the St. Mary's Gaels, could spell doom for Mark Few's team ...

With the NCAA Tournament increasing

to 68 teams this season, the bubble is softer than ever, with dozens of teams believing a strong push can get them into March Madness. Here are five clubs to keep a close eye o...

We can all agree that DePaul

is very, very bad. But you also have to note that the team is playing much, much better. The Blue Demons are just 7-19 SU this year, but a solid 14-11 ATS this season. Over ...

Baylor as won three of the last

five meetings against the Missouri Tigers. The Baylor Bears will try and get off the bubble with a quality win over the Missouri Tigers in this Big 12 matchu...

The Duke Blue Devils are back

on top of the basketball world as they host the Temple Owls on Wednesday in a rare late February non-conference affair. Top-ranked Duke (25-2 straight-up, 15-11 against the sp...

College Hoops: Best Pac 10 Teams

by Jim Feist There's the Big 4 in Pac 10 in basketball with a string of teams battling for the top spot. Here's a look at the strengths and weaknesses of some of college bask...

If there is one thing the Longhorns

know how to do, it’s rebound from a loss. A pathetic effort in a three-point defeat at Nebraska should give the team plenty of motivation. Texas has followed up a SU loss ...

The Vanderbilt Commodores

and Tennessee Volunteers are both trying to make some noise in the SEC East this year, and they'll both have a shot in NCAA basketball betting action on Tuesday when they meet ...

The Ohio State Buckeyes have

hit a bump in the road as they return home for a Tuesday night encounter with the Illinois Fighting Illini. Ohio State (25-2 straight-up, 11-13 against the spread) was undefea...

A battle for key positioning

in the Big East tips off at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia where Villanova (21-6, 9-5) hosts Syracuse (22-6, 9-6) on ESPN Monday night. Refuse to lose After drop...

Oklahoma State’s leading scorer,

Marshall Moses’ status for Monday’s game against Kansas is up in the air. He left Saturday’s loss to Texas A&M after playing just seven minutes. The team has not rele...

The Wildcats love to face the

Syracuse 2-3 zone defense. Villanova is 4-1 SU and ATS in their past five meetings with the Orange, cracking the 80 point mark in all the victories. Included in those wins i...

Down the stretch they come,

and a big question now is will any team step up the Big East and serve notice that it is the squad to beat in the conference tourney and NCAA's? Pittsburgh still owns a somewh...

Sam Peckinpah was known for

movies with violence at their core. Nothing was too bloody or gory for the old filmmaker. The last week-&-a-half of the college basketball schedule played out as if 'Bloody S...

A Big Ten title race that

hasn't been close all season could finally get interesting when No. 3 Ohio State hits the road Sunday afternoon to face No. 11 Purdue in a clash of the league's top teams. A vi...

The Pioneers won’t contend

for a national title, but that doesn’t mean the team can’t help fatten bettors bank rolls. Denver is 11-3 SU and 8-4 ATS in lined home games this season, including covering...

Revenge is on the minds of

the Purdue Boilermakers, not to mention a chance to beat a second consecutive top-10 team, when they host the Ohio State Buckeyes. Sunday's contest from West Lafayette's Macke...

This game could set offensive

hoops backwards. The Cornhuskers are a solid home team, going 15-1 at Bob Devaney Sports Center this season thanks to a strong defense. Overall, the under has gone a stunning 2...

To say that the home team has owned

this series in recent years would be an understatement. The host has won the last eight meetings SU, going 6-2 ATS over that stretch. The Huskies have the most recent home vict...

The St. John’s Red Storm

are a Big East pushover no more as they host the Pittsburgh Panthers on Saturday afternoon. Pitt will see the return of junior guard Ashton Gibbs. The Red Storm (16-9 straight...

If it was an interconference

matchup of the No. 4 and No. 17 teams in the AP or coaches rankings, the hype would be huge. Instead it's the fourth- and 17th-ranked schools among the mid-majors, and a bit s...

One of the late BracketBuster

games on Saturday night has 25th-ranked Utah State visiting Saint Mary’s. It is a critical game for both teams as they look to improve their at-large resumes. Even though th...

Heading into Thursday’s showdown

at LSU, Alabama has won six out of seven and 11 of its last 13 games. This is a completely different team than the squad that opened the season with losses to Seton Hall, Iowa,...

No. 16 Louisville can be a dangerous

team when its pressure defense is confusing opponents and its long-range shots are falling. But when those things don’t work, the Cardinals look very ordinary. One of No. 12 ...

Is Kemba Walker back at it?

The National Player of the Year candidate had struggled in recent weeks, going 5 of 16 in a win at Marquette, 7 of 23 in a loss to Louisville, 3 of 14 in a loss to Syracuse, 7 o...

Don’t expect this one to feature

many open-court dunks or an epic shooting display. The Dragons play at one of the slowest paces of any team in the country, preferring a methodical, half-court game to an up-an...

No. 4 Pitt is getting its

leading scorer back for Saturday's clash at Madison Square Garden with surprising St. John's. Junior guard Ashton Gibbs (16.3 points, 3.1 assists), who has missed three game...

Even the most hardcore

college hoops fans must admit that this is a down year for the NCAA. Duke, the team everyone thought would breeze through to another Final Four, has taken its licks. As has...

The St. Mary's Gaels are

considered the top mid-major team in the country while Utah State is running away with the WAC with a 12-1 conference record atop the standings. The one problem that both have ...

The Southeast Conference is widely

regarded as the strongest football conference in the country, but these schools also produce some quality basketball teams. There are currently three SEC East teams ranked in ...

The Louisville Cardinals

are finally getting healthy as they host the Connecticut Huskies in a top-20 Big East battle on Friday night. The No. 16 Cardinals (19-7 straight-up, 12-10-1 against the sprea...

The Washington State Cougars

look to avenge a previous two-point loss when they tangle with the Arizona Wildcats this Thursday night for the second time in less than a month. This PAC-10 matchup from the M...

A trio of teams ruled the Atlantic

10 last season, eventually punching tickets to the Big Dance. The same three are on top of the conference standings once again, Xavier's 9-1 mark leading the way. Duquesne, t...

It's bracket buster week,

which is always an interesting time for both mid major junkies and handicappers. Small schools get the ESPN spotlight and we get a glimpse into the relative strengths and weakn...

The young Wolverines are starting

to play like grizzled veterans. Michigan is 5-1 SU and ATS over its past six games, sparking talk of an NCAA Tournament berth as the side loaded with underclassman is starting ...

Second-ranked Texas

(22-3 straight up, 15-5 against the spread) can ascend to the nation’s top ranking with a couple of victories this week. Big XII rival Kansas held the No. 1 spot briefly bef...

The Wisconsin Badgers look to

avoid the dreaded letdown whey they travel to the Purdue Boilermakers on Wednesday night. The Badgers (19-5 straight-up, 13-7 against the spread) are coming off a thrilling 71...

College Hoops:

Best of the SEC by Jim Feist The SEC has a bunch of teams that are loaded with talent, depth and athleticism. Kentucky won the national championship in 1998, Florida knocked...

It wouldn’t matter if

this game was played on the moon, but the Red Raiders are especially bad in opposing gyms. Texas Tech is a horrid 1-6 SU and 2-5 ATS in true road games this year, posting their...

The North Carolina Tar Heels

are finding different ways to win as they host the Wake Forest Demon Deacons on Tuesday night. The Tar Heels (18-6 straight-up, 12-9 against the spread) are a re-energized tea...

Tuesday night's Big Ten matchup

Tuesday night's Big Ten matchup in Columbus between Ohio State Buckeyes and Michigan State Spartans was circled by college basketball fans and bettors alike this past November. ...

Gary Williams had a very

interesting quote a few days back. “Our conference is as good as the Big Ten,” the Maryland coach said about the ACC to the Baltimore Sun. “I’ll take Duke and (Nort...

A big battle in the Big East

tips off at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse Monday evening when the Orange (20-6, 7-6) host West Virginia (16-8, 7-5) on ESPN. Let see how they match up. Slip Sliding Away ...

No Josh Selby?

No Thomas Robinson? No problem for the Jayhawks. Kansas didn’t miss a beat without two of its top players on Saturday, demolishing Iowa State by 33. The decisive win was ...

Maybe the color orange has

something to do with it. Then again, maybe not. Either way it's sure looking like this year's Syracuse Orange is a remake of last season's Texas Longhorns squad. Syracuse dr...

A No. 1 team arrived at Bramlage

Coliseum about 13 months ago and promptly left Manhattan with its tail between its legs. The Kansas State Wildcats hope to repeat that performance Monday night and grab at lea...

If there is one place Purdue

doesn’t want to be, it’s the road. The Boilermakers are 4-4 away from West Lafayette this season, but have dropped four straight on opposing campuses. Purdue has lost a...

Imagine you and your buddy

being invited to play in a huge poker tournament, only the tourney hosts tell your buddy he gets an automatic seat at the final table while you have to start from scratch and w...

Syracuse Orange at Louisville

Cardinals, 12 p.m. ET, ESPN (-3, 137.5) It might be up to a freshman to shoulder the load for the Orange. C.J. Fair, a first-year forward from Baltimore, led the team with ...

The Buckeyes and Badgers

have split four meetings over the last two seasons, with the home side prevailing in three of those and the other being decided on a neutral court in the Big Ten Tournament. ...

Duke remains the favorite

Duke remains the favorite to win national championship. WTF? The defending champion Blue Devils at +300 sit atop the Las Vegas Hilton’s odds to win the NCAA Men’s Basketb...

Louisville still isn’t healthy

as forward Rakeem Buckles (broken finger) and center Gorgui Dieng (concussion) both practiced late this week but their status is still unknown for Saturday. Even worse, outside...

One of the biggest matchups

in the Big Ten this season takes place this Saturday afternoon when the Ohio State Buckeyes make the trip to the Kohl Center in Madison to take on the Wisconsin Badgers. Tip-off...

Six Big East teams hog most

of the space from No. 4 to No. 16 in the latest AP rankings. Two from that 13-slot span collide in Philadelphia on Saturday when the fourth-ranked Pittsburgh Panthers visit th...

The Texas Longhorns will try

and remain unbeaten in the Big 12 when they host the Baylor Bears on Saturday in a college basketball betting game that can be seen on ESPN. Texas has been so dominant in the ...

Sixth-ranked San Diego State

(24-1 straight up, 14-9 against the spread) travels to Sin City Saturday to face UNLV (18-6 SU, 9-14 ATS) in a key Mountain West Conference contest. The Aztecs are currently t...

The defending champion Blue Devils

at +300 sit atop the Las Vegas Hilton’s odds to win the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Top-ranked and undefeated Ohio State is next at +400, followed by Kansas (+600) an...

The Lions once looked like

contenders for the Ivy League title. Now, they just need to find a way to stop opposing scorers to have a shot at an NIT bid. “We’re pulling it out of the net all of th...

We all know that the Big East

is going to send the most teams to the NCAA Tournament this year. But the Big XII is probably the next best conference for NCAA basketball betting action, and it might actuall...

The Kentucky Wildcats look to turn

around an ugly SEC road start when they visit the Vanderbilt Commodores on Saturday afternoon in a top-25 matchup. No. 18 Kentucky (17-6 straight-up, 9-9 against the spread) i...

The Longhorns have been a smart

bettor’s best friend this season, going 14-4-0 ATS while posting a 5-12-0 over/under mark, including 0-6-0 on the road. Texas has gone under in five straight and seven of...

The Longhorns have been a smart

bettor’s best friend this season, going 14-4-0 ATS while posting a 5-12-0 over/under mark, including 0-6-0 on the road. Texas has gone under in five straight and seven of...

Isiah Thomas has seen better days

(for younger cappers we're talking about the NBA legend and failed GM, not the UW PG). Wondering where he has been the last two years? Well the man who traded Trevor Ariza for ...

When Penn State senior forward

Jeff Brooks went down with a shoulder injury, the Nittany Lions had to find a way to make up for a player who led the team in rebounds (7.2 rpg), was second in points (13.2 ppg...

Williams Arena in Minneapolis

is the site of Thursday night’s Big Ten clash between the Fighting Illini of Illinois and the Minnesota Golden Gophers. The game is set to tip at 6 p.m. (PT) and will be broa...

Only three weeks ago

there was talk that Saint Mary’s was better than its Sweet 16 team of last season even without star center Omar Samhan. There’s no such chatter about that now. The Gaels ...

The Cardinals are picking

a bad time to get banged up. The Fighting Irish are among the toughest home teams in the country and present a very physical matchup. Not good for a Louisville team looking for...

A tradition like no other

in college basketball adds another chapter on Wednesday. North Carolina, slowly making its way back up the rankings, makes the short trip to Duke, which has rebounded nicely fr...

The North Carolina Tar Heels’

recent ascent brings added intrigue to Wednesday night’s game at the Duke Blue Devils. The winner of college hoops’ best rivalry will be in first place in the ACC. The Tar...

An NCAA Tournament bubble

would likely burst for the loser of this late-season resume builder. And the Musketeers appear to be streaking at the like time. Behind the standout play of guard Tu Hollowa...

Head coach Bruce Pearl was suspended

for the first eight games of the SEC betting season for the Tennessee Volunteers. He'll be back on the sidelines Tuesday night at Rupp Arena, where the boys from Rocky Top will...

It's been a trying year for

Mark Fox and the Georgia Bulldogs, picked before the season as a possible contender in the SEC East behind Florida and Kentucky. The Bulldogs looked all of that in early Janua...

If you thought you were going

to have time to catch your breath and regroup following the Super Bowl, think again. Rivalry week arrives on the college basketball betting schedule Monday with ESPN flooding i...

Ohio State, the unanimous No. 1 team

in the country, takes its perfect record to Minnesota on Sunday. The Buckeyes have a virtual lock on the Big Ten title even though eight conference games remain. Minnesota play...

It’s hard to put into perspective

just how bad the Spartans are playing right now. Michigan State is 0-8 ATS in its past eight games, 0-8 ATS in its past eight Big 10 games and not surprisingly is a wretched...

Top-ranked Ohio State

(23-0 straight up, 10-10 against the spread) puts its unblemished record on the line Sunday against 19th-ranked Minnesota (16-6 SU, 10-12 ATS). The Buckeyes have a healthy thr...

If Xavier guard Holloway

struggles, so will the Musketeers. He finished with a mere 12 points and was a horrid 3 for 17 from the field in a 66-62 loss to Charlotte. For the season, he averages more tha...

The betting markets

expected a significant decline from Northern Iowa this year after the graduation losses of Missouri Valley Player of the Year Adam Koch, NCAA tournament hero Ali Farokhmanesh (w...

The first-place team in the SEC?

Why that would be the team that’s the hottest: Alabama. The Tide had a horrific non-conference performance, including losses to Iowa, St. Peter’s and Seton Hall, but once c...

The No. 11 Kentucky Wildcats

and No. 23 Florida Gators have played some tight defense recently, with the ‘under’ going a combined 8-1-1 in each squad’s last five games. Saturday night’s college ho...

The West Virginia Mountaineers

will be looking to boost their resume for the postseason with a quality win over the Villanova Wildcats this Saturday afternoon in this Big East clash. Tip-off from The Pavilio...

It’s not just a clash of different

cultures when UNLV meets BYU Saturday at 1 p.m. PT in Provo, Utah. It’s also a clash of styles. BYU is 21-2, ranked eighth in the country, and tied for first place in the Mo...

Seventh-ranked San Diego State

should not have too much trouble on Saturday night when the Aztecs host TCU. The Aztecs are 22-1 overall and 7-1 in the Mountain West and they will be heavily favored against ...

Late last month, this seemed

like a matchup to determine which team would win the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference regular-season title. But the Gaels have failed to hold up their end. Iona (13-9, 7-4...

The top-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes

(22-0 straight-up) look like the Big Ten’s only legitimate hope for a national title. Ohio State (plus 420) is ranked only behind defending champion Duke (plus 320) at one o...

Wildcats coach Sean Miller

is already worried about facing the Cardinal defense again. “They’re very good on defense,” Miller, whose team repeatedly worked on attacking various Cardinal looks th...

The No. 8 Notre Dame

Fighting Irish have won three straight games, with a 3-0 spread record. Mike Brey’s crew looks to extend its streak in Thursday’s road outing against the DePaul Blue Demon...

Overrated Top-25 program:

Ohio State Buckeyes (22-0, 10-9 ATS) Stay with us on this one. We don't make it a habit of calling teams overrated when they have yet to lose a game more than 20 contests in...

It’s a bit farfetched

to say that Cleveland State has filled the LeBron void, but many mid-major experts have the 20-3 Vikings listed as the top small school in the nation. They suffered a bit of a ...

With just over a month to go

With just over a month to go in the college basketball regular season, several teams have emerged as unlikely contenders for their conference crowns. ...

How bad has it gotten for the Orange?

The team has lost four straight for the first time in five seasons and also is 0-4 ATS over that span. Syracuse just hasn’t been able to successfully implement its trademark ...

Ordinarily there is no shame

in losing consecutive games to Pittsburgh, Villanova, Seton Hall and Marquette. Such is life in the Big East, the toughest college basketball conference with eight teams ranke...

The Duke Blue Devils look

to bounce-back from an embarrassing loss when they visit the Maryland Terrapins on Wednesday night. Duke won the first meeting between the teams this year. The Blue Devils are...

It will be a tall task

this Thursday when the Michigan Wolverines try and extend their winning streak to three in the Big Ten against the undefeated Ohio State Buckeyes. Tip-off from the Value City A...

The Tar Heels are starting

to peak during conference play thanks to star freshman Harrison Barnes. And the Eagles are taking a step back as standout senior guard Reggie Jackson can’t even get off the b...

The Purdue Boilermakers

and Wisconsin Badgers have only lost nine games between them this year, but one of them is going to be dealt another 'L' on Tuesday night when they meet up at the Kohl Center i...

A pair of SEC rivals

fighting to gain the respect of the polls square off in a key conference clash Tuesday night when the Florida Gators host the Vanderbilt Commodores. The Gators enter the fraca...

A battle of Top 20 Big 12 basketball

powers tips off Monday when Texas A&M (17-3, 4-2) hosts conference-leading Texas (18-3, 6-0) at sold-out Reed Arena in College Station. Let’s see how they match up. CAN’...

The Aggies have done three things

better than almost every team they have faced this season – draw fouls, shoot free throws and rebound. But the Aggies struggled in all of those categories in an earlier meeti...

The good news for Mark Turgeon

and the Texas A&M Aggies is they won't have to spend much time moping around and dwelling on Saturday's loss at Nebraska. That's because the Aggies have all of one day of rest...

About the only thing that came

from the college basketball season's 12th week is a stronger foothold for the Ohio State Buckeyes atop the rankings. Seven of last week's AP top 10 suffered ...

Two of the winningest programs

in NCAA history square off before an expected sellout crowd in a Sunday afternoon showcase at Madison Square Garden. Duke is fourth on the all-time victory list, St. John's sev...

Terrapins forward Jordan Williams

has been destroying the opposition this year, averaging 17.6 points and 12.1 rebounds per game with his massive, 6-foot-10, 260-pound frame. He has been a force down low all se...

Temple Owls at St. Joseph’s Hawks

(13, 133), ESPNU, 11 a.m. ET The Owls continue to feel the effects of a knee injury to guard Juan Fernandez. Sidelined with a knee injury,...

Don’t expect the Cougars

to have a letdown during their trip to The Pit. Coming off a 71-58 win over previously-undefeated San Diego State in arguably the biggest basketball game in Mountain West Confe...

The No. 6 Kansas Jayhawks have

a 1-5 spread record in their last six games, with the ‘total’ splitting at 3-3. Bill Self’s squad hosts Saturday’s matchup against the Kansas State Wildcats, who have ...

Steve Lavin and the St. John's

Red Storm asked for it. An amazingly tough 10-game stretch comes to an end at Madison Square Garden this Sunday when Lavin's lads take up arms – and legs and brains – with ...

If you had to treat NCAA basketball

betting action like the stock market, there is no doubt that the Texas Longhorns would be like Berkshire Hathaway at the moment. They are coming off a game in which they pulled...

Syracuse may be ranked 10th

in the country right now but they are going to drop a lot in next week’s Top 25 poll. Syracuse has lost three straight college basketball betting games and is trying to avoi...

The Big East Conference remains

the top league in college basketball, and two top-25 teams collide Saturday when 20th-ranked Georgetown (15-5 straight up, 12-7 against the spread) visits seventh-ranked Villan...

As recently as two weeks ago,

Western Kentucky was a legitimate pointspread disaster area. Following a wire-to-wire home loss against Florida Atlantic, the preseason Sun Belt favorites were sitting at 5-11 ...

The Crimson has never been

better at home - literally. Harvard is 8-0 at home this season and owns a program-record tying 11-game win streak at Lavietes Pavilion. But the Crimson have been a tough oppone...

The Big Ten gets things going

early this Saturday with a rematch from earlier this month between the Minnesota Golden Gophers and the Purdue Boilermakers at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, IN. The game is s...

The hard-luck Virginia Cavaliers

may only be 11-8 straight up on the year (2-3 in the ACC), but they easily lead the conference at 10-4 against the spread. Virginia was expected to struggle after leading scor...

After an 89-70 loss

to Vanderbilt in Tennessee, St. Mary’s coach Randy Bennett didn’t mince words about his team’s poor play. “We need to be more mentally tough on the road,” he said...

The No. 22 Vanderbilt Commodores

have a 1-4 spread record in their last five games, with the ‘over’ going 4-1. Kevin Stallings’ squad heads south for Thursday’s matchup against the Mississippi State B...

We already know that John Wooden

led one of the greatest programs in the history of sports. His UCLA Bruins put together an NCAA record 13 straight regular season conference crowns in the Pac-10 in the 1960s a...

Without a doubt the worst team

in Division I college basketball is the Summit League’s Centenary Gentlemen (that's not a typo, that’s their actual team name). They are 0-21 this season and rank 341st (ou...

Don’t look now, but the Nittany L...

aren’t terrible. Penn State has won two of its past four games with those victories coming over Illinois and Michigan State in Happy Valley. The losses? To No. 1 Ohio State a...

The North Carolina Tar Heels

travel to the BankUnited Center in Coral Gables this Wednesday for an ACC matchup with the Miami Hurricanes. Tip-off is set for 4:30 p.m. (PT) and the game will be broadcast na...

It may be the biggest basketball

game ever for either team as well as their conference. It's arguably the biggest game of the college basketball season's 12th week, the only matchup of top-10 teams. And it's...

The Jayhawks have no problem

beating the Buffaloes – but it’s usually not easy. Kansas is 10-0 in its past 10 meetings with Colorado, but is just 4-6 ATS over that span and a mere 1-5 ATS since 2008. ...

The No. 2 Kansas Jayhawks have

a 1-4 spread record in their last five games, with the ‘under’ going 3-2. Bill Self’s squad heads west for Tuesday’s duel against the Colorado Buffaloes, who return ho...

There are only two teams

in the entire country that enter this week with a bagel in their loss column, and one of the two is going to be on the ropes on Tuesday night in one of its biggest games of the...

A battle of Big East basketball

powers tips off in Pittsburgh Monday night when the conference-leading Panthers (19-1, 7-0) host the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame (16-4, 5-3). THE PITTSBURGH ZOO Playing ...

The Baylor Bears aren’t big fans of

away games. The team has played exactly twice in true road games this year and the results have been mixed – a lackluster, 71-59 win over a horrid Texas Tech squad, and a 72-...

Monday’s men’s basketball schedule

features a big showdown in the Big East when the Notre Dame Fighting Irish travel to the Petersen Events Center to tangle with the Pittsburgh Panthers. Tip-off is set for 4 p.m...

Expect to see the top 10

of the next AP rankings to be filled out by the same 10 schools as lsat week, just don't expect them to be in the same order. The Ohio State Buckeyes will still be on top of b...

Think of this one as an

appetizer for Green Bay-Chicago a little later in the afternoon. In fact, the game was actually moved up 30 minutes to help accommodate fans who also wanted to watch the NFC ti...

A crucial two-game road trip

begins for the Wisconsin Badgers when they travel to Evanston to meet the Northwestern Wildcats on Sunday. Tip-off from Welsh-Ryan Arena is 9:30 a.m. (PT). First glance might...

The Buckeyes have had

one point of emphasis in the New Year: defense. It has finally paid off in a win this week against Iowa, limiting the Hawkeyes to 48 points and just 40 percent shooting as the ...

Think a high-pressure,

up-tempo system is going to give the Huskies trouble? Think again. UConn already has beaten Villanova, which plays a similar style, and will be no stranger to the strategy Bruc...

The No. 7 Villanova Wildcats

have a 6-0 spread record in their last six games, with the ‘total’ splitting at 3-3. Jay Wright’s troops head north for Saturday afternoon’s clash against the No. 3 Sy...

The Texas Longhorns invade

Phog Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence this Saturday afternoon to take on the Kansas Jayhawks in a showdown of Big 12 powers. Tip-off is set for 1 p.m. (PT) and the game will be bro...

Once upon a time, the Memphis Tigers

were the class of Conference USA basketball, and they just never lost a game. In fact, they went 64 straight conference games without a loss, a streak that ended one year and j...

The Tennessee Volunteers will

have their head coach Bruce Pearl on Saturday as they visit the eighth-ranked Connecticut Huskies. Pearl was suspended by the SEC for the first eight conference games of the c...

Like so many college basketball

teams at this time of the year, Dayton’s pointspread value is still being affected by things that happened months ago. The Flyers got blown out at Cincinnati just after Thank...

The last time St. Peter’s

beat Sienna, Happy Feet had yet to start dancing at the box office, Shakira’s hips had yet to lie and The CW was still the WB. Ah, March of 2006. But this version of St. P...

The Butler Bulldogs can’t afford

too many more losses as they shoot for a fifth consecutive NCAA tournament appearance. They host the Green Bay Phoenix in Horizon League play on a light Friday night. Butler is...

Big East basketball has been

dominating the rankings since the season's outset, with nine of the conference's 16 teams part of the most recent AP poll and seven occupying slots on the coaches list. Those ...

The Hokies have been known for

their physical defense and bruising play during their recent run of success in the Atlantic Coast Conference. But thanks to a spate of injuries and uninspired play, the team is...

The Florida Gators have

a 3-2 spread record in their last five games, with the ‘over’ cashing at 5-0. Billy Donovan’s squad heads north for Thursday’s matchup against the Auburn Tigers, who a...

Top-25 teams Arizona and

Washington collide Thursday night with first place in the Pac-10 Conference at stake. This matchup will feature two of the best players in the league, Wildcats power forward D...

The defending national champs

have proven to be human in recent weeks, dropping from their No. 1 ranking and failing to cover the spread in three straight outings. The Duke Blue Devils are 2-1 SU in that...

Quick, name the only team besides Pitt

to win an NCAA Tournament game during each of the past five seasons. Go to the head of the class if you managed to come up with Texas A&M. The Aggies are tough again this sea...

Fourth-ranked Duke

(16-1 straight up, 8-8 against the spread) remains in a three-way tie atop the Atlantic Coast Conference. The defending national champion Blue Devils were the top-ranked team ...

Ohio State is a 20-point favorite

when the Iowa Hawkeyes come to Columbus. It's a mismatch on paper, as the NCAA odds reflect. Still, it's an intriguing mismatch when the newly-anointed No. 1 Ohio State Bucke...

Tom Izzo’s Spartans started

the season as the second-ranked team in the nation, but have gradually dropped in the rankings all season. The squad has won six of eight, but all season they seem to lose ever...

The young Kentucky Wildcats are

trying to learn how to win on the road in the SEC as they visit the Alabama Crimson Tide on Tuesday night. No. 12 Kentucky (14-3 straight-up, 7-5 against the spread) has playe...

The No. 16 Illinois Fighting Illini

a 3-2 spread record in their last five games, with the ‘over’ going 4-1. Bruce Weber’s squad begins a two-game homestand with Tuesday’s duel against the No. 24 Michiga...

A battle of Big East leaders

tips off at the Peterson Events Center in Pittsburgh when the fifth-ranked Panthers (17-1, 5-0) host the fourth-ranked Orange (18-0, 5-0). RUNAWAY Syracuse furthered its ...

All of a sudden, Mizzou

feels like it’s heading into a must-win situation Monday against the Wildcats. After a great start to the season, the Tigers suffered their second loss in three games in ...

The rankings are set to anoint

just their second No. 1 team this season. Duke's 66-61 loss at Florida State this past Wednesday should open the door for the second-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes to step up a ru...

Monday night brings us a monster

matchup in the Big East when the No. 4 Syracuse Orange tangle with the No. 5 Pittsburgh Panthers at Petersen Events Center in Iron City. Tip-off is set for 4:30 (PT) and the ga...

Frank Martin and the Kansas State

Wildcats entered the 2010-11 season with high expectations. College basketball oddsmakers levied 5/2 futures odds on K-State as the favorites in the Big 12 and coaches opened ...

It’s pretty simple for the Red St...

as Dwight Hardy goes, so too does St. John’s. Hardy is averaging 15.7 points and 2.4 rebounds per game. On a recent hot streak, he dropped 20 or more points in six of seve...

Casey Mitchell has averaged 20 PPG

in West Virginia’s three-game win streak. The No. 8 Purdue Boilermakers have a 5-1 spread record in their last six games, with the ‘over’ going 4-1-1. ...

It isn't often that we pay all

much attention to Horizon League basketball, but if there is a chance for the Butler Bulldogs, last year's national runners-up, to be beaten once again by a member of its own c...

The Aggies have shot up

to sit as the No. 2 team in the Big 12, their 15-1 record only bettered by unbeaten Kansas. Texas A&M isn’t a dominant offensive squad,...

The No. 4 Syracuse Orange have begun

their season winning 17 straight games, with a 3-2 spread record in their last five ‘board’ battles. Jim Boeheim’s squad looks to extend its streak in Saturday afternoon...

A battle of offense versus defense

will be on full display Saturday afternoon when the No. 12 Missouri Tigers visit the No. 13 Texas A&M Aggies. Missouri has had no luck in recent years against its Big 12 counte...

Rupp Arena in Lexington is going

to be the site of a Saturday afternoon NCAA basketball betting affair, as the Kentucky Wildcats look to sew up another SEC victory at home against the LSU Tigers. The tip for ...

Sportsbooks drool about this part of

Sportsbooks drool about this part of the college basketball season. Right now, the betting public is more ignorant about the teams they’re betting on than at any other time...

The last time Detroit beat Butler,

Hostel was ruling the box office, Steve Irwin was still wrestling crocodiles and Justin Timberlake still hadn’t brought “SexyBack.” Ah, February of 2006. Since then, t...

Conference play has begin in earnest

on the college basketball betting schedule, and it will be just a matter of time before March Madness is here. With a month and a half of play already in the rearview mirror, ...

It's fish or cut bait time

for the Rider Broncs, and a key point in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference schedule overall. Tommy Dempsey and his staff face the task of getting their team up for consecu...

With Robbie Hummel on the shelf

for the year, it was hard to know what to expect from the Boilermakers. It’s safe to say that they’re surpassing expectations without the former Big Ten player of the year. ...

The resilient Purdue Boilermakers

face their toughest test of the year Thursday night when they visit the Minnesota Golden Gophers in a Big Ten battle. Purdue was a top candidate for the natio...

The bowl season is over,

the continuation of the NFL playoffs still several days away. Looks like we're stuck with college basketball, not that I'm complaining, especially since Wednesday's schedule in...

Mountain West Conference play

got off to a losing start for the UNLV Rebels when they dropped one to BYU at home a week ago. Lon Kruger's kids bounced right back with an 83-49 rout of TCU in their follow-up...

This classic Big Ten battle

will see one of the nation’s stingiest defenses face a team that was ranked as high as No. 2 this year. Tom Izzo’s Spartans have been somewhat of a disappointment this se...

A Tuesday night Lone Star State

battle pits the No. 12 Texas Longhorns against the Texas Tech Red Raiders in a Big 12 matchup at United Spirit Arena in Lubbock. Tip-off is set for 4 p.m. (PT) and the game will...

The BYU Cougars

and Utah Utes definitely don't like each other and when they meet up, regardless of what type of sports betting battle it is, the intensity is definitely cranked up a notch. Th...

Cameron Indoor is one of the

most recognizable arenas in college basketball, with the entire lower bowl filled with the Cameron Crazies. Any list of the top home-court advantages will inevitably mention Duk...

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish

are feeling pretty good about their quick start in conference play. They are looking for their first 4-1 start in the Big East in six season. Notre Dame has won two straight...

Cold weather will grip the

better part of the Lower 48 this week, with snow and ice making a somewhat rare appearance in the Deep South. College basketball betting, however, is just heating up, making it...

The Bearcats think

they are ready for their stiffest challenge of the season: a road game against a top-10 Big East foe. "We know what we’ve got to do,” said senior forward Ibrahima Thomas...

The No. 25 Cincinnati Bearcats have

a 15-game win streak to start the season, with a 6-1 spread record in their last seven ‘board’ battles. Mick Cronin’s crew looks to extend its run in Sunday’s road game...

A rare down season in the ACC

finds just one team in either set of rankings nearly nine full weeks into the 2010-11 college basketball schedule. Granted, that team is the top-ranked Duke Blue Devils who wil...

The Kemba Walker show continues

for UConn, as the diaper dandy is averaging 26.1 points per game to lead the Huskies’ offense. Walker was contained to just 19 points in his last outing, a 73-70 loss to Notre...

Kansas State and Oklahoma State col...

early Saturday in the Big XII Conference opener for both teams. The 17th-ranked Wildcats are one of five conference teams currently ranked in the Associated Press top-25 poll. ...

Oh, how I miss my youth.

Twenty-five years ago would've found me driving to the state capitol Saturday morning to catch the UConn, Texas matchup as well as other tasty offerings in the Austin area. Gr...

Go figure. The odds of 3-0 team

in Big East conference play meeting a 2-1 rival at this stage of the campaign was a given before the season started. But for those two participants to be the 3-0 St. John's Red...

Can the Bulldogs rebound

against one of the most surprising teams in the country? Not if Vikings guard Norris Cole has anything to say about it. The senior guard is doing just about everything for t...

Transitioning from early-season play

to conference action on the college basketball schedule can be a tricky one for bettors who primarily use trends and stats for their handicapping tools. The mismatches and neut...

The revitalization of the Bearcats

can be attributed to one main factor: defense. Cincinnati is at or near the top of nearly every defensive statistic in the NCAA, ranking 3rd in points allowed per game (54.4)...

Seventh-ranked Villanova (12-1 stra...

, 4-5-1 against the spread) puts its seven-game SU winning streak on the line Thursday against South Florida (6-9 SU, 6-6-1 ATS). The Wildcats are one of four Big East teams ra...

A tough start to the Big Ten

schedule gets a little tougher Thursday night for the Northwestern Wildcats. Bill Carmody's crew has already taken on and fallen to a pair of the conference's top teams, Purdue...

Bragging rights are on the line

this Wednesday night when the Memphis Tigers set out to prove they are the best men’s college basketball team in the state when they take on the Tennessee Volunteers. Tip-off...

The BYU Cougars begin

their final season of Mountain West Conference (MWC) play when the visit the UNLV Rebels on Wednesday night. The Mormon school has had no luck recently in ‘Sin City.’ The C...

Razorbacks, Longhorns part of NCAA ...

The NCAA basketball betting season has moved to conference play for the most part, but before we get there in the Big 12 we still have some more business to tend to. Old confere...

Conference Strength

Atlantic Coast Conference There is Duke and then there are just a whole lot of questions surrounding this conference. The undefeated Blue Devils are the only viable national ...

Week 9 NCAA basketball preview

With a combined record of 20-7 and both occupying slots in the top 20 of the rankings, Michigan State and Kansas State are each having pretty darn good seasons. And yet, they a...

Florida Gators take on URI Rams

The Florida Gators have won five of their last six games, with a 2-1 spread record against ‘board’ foes in that stretch. Billy Donovan’s troops open January with Monday�...

Sunday's NCAAB Plays

Unlike most college basketball squads, the Cameron Crazies don’t rattle the Miami Hurricanes. Miami has gone toe-to-toe with the Dukies on their fabled home court in recen...

No. 1 Duke tested by Miami

The Duke Blue Devils get their first big test without point guard Kyrie Irving when they host the Miami Hurricanes on Sunday night. This is the ACC opener for both squads. The ...

Notre Dame at Syracuse

The No. 15 Notre Dame Fighting Irish have prevailed in four straight games, with a 2-1 spread record in the three ‘board’ battles of that span. Mike Brey’s squad travels ...

Buckeyes start Big Ten slate at Ind...

If the Indiana Hoosiers were hoping a trip to Las Vegas just before Christmas would be a perfect way to tune up for their Big Ten schedule, they were wrong. The Hoosiers, who h...

Missouri, Old Dominion top NCAA board

The Old Dominion Monarchs of the Colonial Athletic Association are looking to break into the top 25 with an upset over the No. 10 Missouri Tigers from the Big 12 in a Thursday n...

UCLA Bruins host Washington State

The Washington State Cougars saw a five-game winning streak end with Saturday’s 84-68 setback as two-point favorites against the Butler Bulldogs. Ken Bone’s crew returns fr...

Notre Dame, Georgetown go at it

The Georgetown Hoyas and Notre Dame Fighting Irish have their Big East Conference opener Wednesday night with a top-25 matchup from South Bend, Indiana. Big East play began Mon...

Purdue, Michigan start Big Ten camp...

If it's Christmas time, that means NCAA basketball betting fans are about to engage in the best time of year when teams from across the country battle it out in conference games...

Panthers, Huskies begin Big East se...

The No. 4 Connecticut Huskies have started their season with a 10-0 record, cashing at 4-0 in the four ‘board’ games of that stretch. Jim Calhoun’s crew puts its streak o...

Week 8 NCAA basketball preview

The first seven weeks of the college basketball season have been interesting enough. But beginning this week the action really heats up when the major conferences begin their c...

Big East teams soar in rankings

The predicted demise of the Big East in college basketball odds was greatly exaggerated, with several teams soaring up the national rankings and also doing damage against the sp...

Hoyas make trip to Memphis

The Georgetown Hoyas have had themselves one heck of a run this year out of the Big East, starting off the NCAA basketball betting season with a 10-1 record and the nation's No....

Texas treks to Michigan State

The No. 18 Texas Longhorns picked up their third straight win in Saturday’s 78-76 thriller as 3 ½-point dogs against the North Carolina Tar Heels in Greensboro. Rick Barnes�...

No. 3 Kansas at California

Third-ranked Kansas (10-0 straight up, 4-4 against the spread) concludes its Pac-10 tour with Wednesday’s road matchup against California (6-4 SU, 4-6 ATS). The Jayhawks have...

Kansas State plays UNLV

The Kansas State Wildcats are looking for their offense to heat up when they play the UNLV Rebels on Tuesday night. The game will be played at Kansas City's Sprint Center, techn...

Week 7 NCAA basketball betting preview

Duke and Ohio State are safe in the 1-2 slots of the rankings for yet another week. What happens behind the Blue Devils and Buckeyes remains to be seen when the polls are relea...

Tennessee opens weekend college bas...

The college basketball weekend slate begins rather slow on Friday, swells with a ton of Saturday action, then dies with a whimper on Sunday. Friday's light slate does include o...

Kansas Jayhawks versus USC Trojans

The Kansas Jayhawks are proving once again they don’t rebuild, they reload. They put their perfect record – and 64-game home winning streak – on the line Saturday versus t...

UNC versus Texas

It's been one day shy of exactly a year since the Texas Longhorns and North Carolina Tar Heels met on the hardwood. If Saturday's matchup at Greensboro Coliseum (1 p.m. PT, CBS...

Tennessee opens weekend

The college basketball weekend slate begins rather slow on Friday, swells with a ton of Saturday action, then dies with a whimper on Sunday. Friday's light slate does include o...

Memphis Tigers meet Austin Peay

More of the Memphis scoring load will now shift to freshman Joe Jackson. It's been a rather eventful week or so for Josh Pastner and the Memphis Tigers. The ...

UNLV Rebels host Cal-Santa Barbara

Nevada-Las Vegas returns home from its first setback of the season, hosting a UC-Santa Barbara team Wednesday night that is enjoying its longest winning streak of the young seas...

Tennessee Volunteers host Oakland

Two teams coming off perhaps their best performances of the young campaign collide Tuesday in an interesting matchup between Oakland and No. 7 Tennessee. The Golden Grizzlies c...

NCAA basketball preview - Week 6

The Tennessee Volunteers don't appear on any Big East team's schedule for about six weeks. That's probably fine with most of the coaches in that conference. Tennessee knocked ...

Pitt Panthers get nod over Volunteers

Of all of the duels on the Saturday college basketball betting slate, the one that you certainly aren't going to want to miss is the tussle in the Steel City between the Pittsbu...

Gonzaga at Notre Dame

Mark Few and the Gonzaga Bulldogs find themselves in unfamiliar territory as they prepare for their Saturday matchup against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. And no, I'm not talk...

Early college basketball total trends

The Ivy League isn't exactly the first conference that comes to mind when one thinks of high-scoring college basketball teams. The Princeton Tigers are trying to change that, a...

Georgetown at Temple

A couple of teams that have been beating the odds to start the 2010-11 college basketball season square off in Philadelphia on Thursday when the Temple Owls host the Georgetown ...

Aztecs at Golden Bears

San Diego State (8-0 straight up, 6-1 against the college basketball spread) is gunning to add another quality road victory to its non-conference schedule with Wednesday’s mat...

Kentucky tests Notre Dame's 8-0 record

The No. 23 Notre Dame Fighting Irish have begun their season with an eight-game win streak, cashing at 3-1 against the spread in the four ‘board’ games of that span. Mike B...

Jimmy V Classic

Memphis Tigers vs. Kansas Jayhawks (-12.5, 151) Kansas' Brady Morningstar and Tyrel Reed are the only players left from either in the Jayhawks’ win over Memphis in the 2008...

Kansas, Memphis tip Tuesday

Two Aprils ago, the Kansas Jayhawks and Memphis Tigers squared off in an epic NCAA Tournament Final which the Jayhawks won by eight in OT. Last year, they met at the Scottrade C...

Spartans, Orange square off

Powerhouse programs Michigan State and Syracuse collide under the bright lights at Madison Square Garden Tuesday night for the 2010 Jimmy V Classic. The sixth-ranked Spartans (...

This Week's NCAA basketball preview

Last week's AP top 10 should remain fairly unchanged with only two schools, No. 6 Michigan State and No. 10 Kentucky, suffering losses this past week. The Spartans fell for the...

NCAA Basketball Texas vs. USC

The Big XII-Pac-10 Hardwood Series ends this season, but it does provide us with a matchup better suited for college football. Texas and Southern Cal are known as college footba...

NCAA basketball betting trends

Finals are coming up. No, not on the college basketball court but instead in the classroom. That, along with the upcoming holidays, means a bit of a slowdown on the schedule. ...

Duke hosts Butler

The Duke Blue Devils and Butler Bulldogs have an early rematch of their classic 2010 national title game on Saturday. This game will take place at the Izod Center in East Ruthe...

Wildcats at Cougars

The Kansas State Wildcats are one of the nation's top choices to be a Final Four team this year. However, with one loss to the undefeated Duke Blue Devils already to their name,...

Jayhawks tangle with UCLA

Sixteen national championships. Thirty Final Four appearances. A combined 3,698 wins. All of that comes together Thursday night in Lawrence, Kansas when the Jayhawks host the...

Duke, Michigan State lead NCAA bett...

The crown jewel of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge takes place Wednesday night between the Duke Blue Devils and Michigan State Spartans. Virginia got the ACC off to a great start Mon...

Michigan State at Duke

The Michigan State Spartans (5-1, 2-4 ATS) took an early stumble at the Maui Invitational, but rebounded to beat Washington and finish third. The Spartans lost by three to UC...

Buckeyes at Seminoles

A basketball matchup between traditional football powers takes place Tuesday when third-ranked Ohio State visits Florida State. The Buckeyes (5-0 straight up, 2-2 against the sp...

UNC at Illinois

The ACC/Big Ten Challenge continues Tuesday night at Assembly Hall in Champaign where the Illinois Fighting Illini host the North Carolina Tar Heels. ESPN will carry the tip st...

Week 4 NCAA basketball preview

It was a bad week for Wildcats of which there were three in the most recent top 10 of the AP rankings. Kansas State, Villanova and Kentucky each took a notch in their loss colu...

Gators visit Seminoles

The dream weekend between the Florida Gators and Florida State Seminoles continues on the hardcourt with a Sunday night game at the Donald L. Tucker Center in Tallahassee. This...

Weekend college basketball

While the shopping sheep head to the retail slaughter at the malls on Black Friday and through the weekend, there's plenty of college basketball action to follow for those of us...

Syracuse gets top billing at Legend...

Six of the latest AP top-10 schools will be in action on Friday, including No. 9 Syracuse who leads a foursome into the semifinals of this year's Legends Classic in Atlantic Cit...

Cal and Temple on Turkey Day

Two teams with unblemished 2-0 straight up and against the spread records square off Thanksgiving night when 20th-ranked Temple faces California in the Old Spice Classic Tournam...

NIT Tip-Off

Another Thanksgiving week college basketball tournament begins to reach its apex on Wednesday with the semifinals of the Dick's Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off. Villanova, ra...

Betting Notes

by Micah Roberts I was talking with a bettor in a sports book last week who plays limits on college basketball totals and he was going on a rant on how chicken the Vegas books ...

Governors visit Purdue

The No. 9 team in the nation will be back in NCAA basketball betting action on Tuesday night at home, as the Purdue Boilermakers will look to improve to 4-0 on the season at the...

NCAA basketball heating up

Football, both pro and college, will be foremost on the minds of fans and bettors during the coming Thanksgiving holiday week. Meanwhile the college basketball season continues...

College Hoops Weekend Highlights

Friday's best matchups are in New York at the conclusion of the 2K Sports Classic Benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer. Pittsburgh and Texas came away winners in Thursday's opening tw...

Pitt Panthers lead quartet into MSG

The 2K Sports Classic Benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer returns to the hardwood Thursday when the four host schools from last week's opening round meet at Madison Square Garden. Il...

College hoops predictions

by Jason Logan Early-season college basketball betting is like a great independent film in the midst of summer blockbusters. ...

Butler, Louisville in early betting...

The Butler Bulldogs have an interesting early-season college basketball battle when they visit the Louisville Cardinals on Tuesday night. This is the first regular season game a...

Gators, Buckeyes top Tuesday NCAAB

Dallas Lauderdale and the Buckeyes battle the Florida Gators in a Tuesday top-25 matchup. College basketball officially opened its doors last week, in case you missed it. The ...

Let’s start college hoops in Janu...

by Jimmy Vaccaro November 9, 2010 Well, we turned the clocks back and the heat up and now have a complete menu. Both college and pro football are our entrees, and we don...

NCAA basketball season openers

Ready or not, the college basketball season tips Monday night with the regional openers of the 2K Sports Classic Benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer. The four regional hosts–Illino...

Pac-10 basketball betting preview

Its place among the elite college basketball conferences has been slipping for a few seasons now, and the Pac-10 faces an uphill climb in the 2010-11 campaign if it hopes to reg...

Big 12 Conference Preview

Move over, Jayhawks. Step aside, Longhorns. If college basketball oddsmakers are correct, we're going to see two different teams battle it out for this year's Big 12 Conferenc...

Five teams who may not make the cut

With nine teams featured in the Top 25 ranking that finished last season unranked, let’s take a look at five teams that could finish this season on the outside looking in. ...

Duke a top favorite again

The Duke Blue Devils are the overwhelming favorite in college basketball futures at Bookmaker.com. The Blue Devils are the defending champs and they are 5-1 to win the 2010-201...

Many feel Duke wins again

While most of the sports world is focusing on the National Football League, college football, postseason baseball and hockey right now, college basketball is just a month away f...

Big East Peek

College basketball is just around the corner. There are, of course, easier ways to trek through college basketball season previews than starting with the Big East Conference....

2010-11 Freshman Class

Mike Krzyzewski’s Blue Devils are favored to repeat on the hardwood. With most of the focus currently on baseball and the upcoming college and pro football seasons, now mar...

Tom Izzo back for title run

Tom Izzo turned down the Cavaliers. So did LeBron James. Michigan State Spartans coach Tom Izzo is back for another national title run aft...

NCAA hoops teams to watch in 2011

So while you trudge through the baseball schedule and plan ahead for pigskin, here are a couple programs to keep in mind for when the NCAA basketball season kicks off this fall....

March Madness new 68-team format

Filling out your March Madness bracket will become a little more maddening under the new 68-team format unveiled by the NCAA on Monday. The NCAA declared that eight teams wil...

Personal Note From Me In Memory of ...

Subject: A Gift and Personal Note From Me In Memory of a Great Man Legendary UCLA Basketball Coach John Wooden died Friday at the age of 9...