Longshot Value Plays NCAA Basketball Futures
March Madness is a great time to root for the underdog teams and the long shot to win it all. Craig is throwing out the 5 favorites and is only looking at the teams that are 15-1 or higher.
March Madness is a great time to root for the underdog teams and the long shot to win it all. Craig is throwing out the 5 favorites and is only looking at the teams that are 15-1 or higher.
The All Star Break is in the past signaling the “second half” of the NBA Picks season. Like any season in the past, the first part has brought both surprises (Atlanta) and disappointments (Phoenix) of NBA Picks. However, even though we might have had an advantage in NBA Picks early in the season the odds makers have a tendency to even the score out making the necessary adjustments to the number.
Game-day: 2/22/2009
Tip-off: 7:45 pm est.
The Wake Forest Demon Deacons travel to Duke to take on the Blue Devils. Duke hasn’t been all that great lately. They still have a fantastic straight-up record of 21 and 5, but they’ve lost two out of their last three games, to North Carolina and Boston College, and their against the spread record is an underachieving 11-13-1.
The Oklahoma Sooners travel to Texas to take on the Longhorns in a game where Oklahoma could further solidify themselves as a contender for the National Championship. The Sooners have been very good straight-up this season going 25 and 1. Their record against the spread in the Sportsbook is 12-8-1 but it’s good enough to put them into the Power Rankings.
Bracketbuster game of the weekend is still Butler @ Davidson: When the BracketBusters pairings came out on Feb. 2, Butler and Davidson were a combined 36-4 and easy choices for the top slot in the weekend’s made-for-TV matchups.
Game-day: 2/21/2009
Tip-off: 2:00 pm est.
Another highly ranked team, the Connecticut Huskies, will try to bounce back from a terrible loss at the hands of the Pittsburgh Panthers. The Huskies not only lost the game but they lost Jerome Dyson for the season. Connecticut is still a very good team straight-up at 24 and 2, but their against the spread record in the BetUS online sportsbook leaves something to be desired at 10 and 10.
Two big Eastern Conference matchups highlight the NHL betting schedule Saturday, as the Penguins and Flyers clash in the latest meeting in the battle of Pennsylvania, and the slumping Rangers travel to Buffalo to face the Sabres.
NASCAR takes its Sprint Cup Championship Tour to Fontana, CA for the Auto Club 500 this Sunday.
Matt Kenseth won the Daytona 500 last weekend and jumped to number one in the NASCAR Power Rankings, but some of the best drivers in the world could leapfrog him after a victory or good showing at Fontana.
It’s a big weekend for basketball and prop bets, as we highlight two nationally televised NBA tilts Friday night, one NCAA matchup on Saturday, and the Academy Awards on Sunday.In NBA action, the Houston Rockets host the Dallas Mavericks, and the Los Angeles Lakers host the New Orleans Hornets.
Race: The Auto Club 500
Date: Sunday, February 22, 2009
Time: 6:15 PM EST (scheduled Green Flag)
TV: 5:00 PM EST on FOX
Preview: The Daytona 500 gets all the hype, but this week’s race in Fontana, California, will be a better prognosticator of how the teams look on the type of downforce track that comprises the majority of the 36-race NASCAR Cup schedule.
What a difference a season can make. A year ago, the Jays were on everyone’s sleeper list in the MLB odds. They had, arguably, the best pitching in the AL, featuring a one-two punch of Roy Halladay and A.J. Burnett, good young arms in Dustin McGowan and Shaun Marcum and the league’s stingiest bullpen.
The great NBA doubleheader tonight of Dallas at Houston and New Orleans at the L.A. Lakers is being affected by trades and injuries.
Dallas (+3) at Houston – 8 pm ET
The Houston Rockets understand what it means to play without its star players. Over the last several years, Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady have missed a number of games and the team has plodded on.
We are less than a month away from Selection Sunday (March 15) and the tip-off to March Madness. As the countdown to the Big Dance starts, the intensity level for all teams is turned up, even those with an invite already assured.
As major league baseball players make their way to their Spring Training complexes the steroid issue is front and center as Alex Rodriguez has confessed to taking a banned substance.
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