Take a break from your March Madness betting for a weekend and head over to your sportsbook to check out this week’s Honda Classic odds. Ernie Els is the defending champion in this event at the PGA National in Palm Beach, FL, but online betting odds are backing two of the more charismatic players in the game.
The Horizon League tournament gets underway on Tuesday March 3rd. Butler has dominated this conference in recent years and is almost automatic to make the ncaa tournament this season with a 25-4 overall record and Top 25 ranking.
The ACC has had a ton of upsets this year and there are two schools of thought about the strength of the ACC this year. Either you think this conference is so good that anyone can win on any given day or it’s a conference that is overrated and not near as strong as the rankings. Let’s predict who is in the big dance as of right now and predict how they will perform.
MLB Baseball Futures Betting
There are many observers who think this year’s World Series champion might come out of the same place as last year’s champs. That’s the NL East, where the Mets have faded two years in a row and the Phillies reigned supreme last year. Those two will be contenders, but will anyone else emerge as a possible surprise?
The American League West is something of a residence for teams with major flaws. The Oakland Athletics have managerial expertise (have you read “Moneyball”?) but not a lot of money to work with, and it’s always a battle to put a competitive team on the field within such a meager budget.
Okay BetUS MLB online betting fanatics, after nailing a whopping 60 percent of my MLB free picks in 2008, your handicapping guru, Eric Williams is getting prepared to set the BetUS Sportsbook on fire with another amazing run all the way to the 2009 World Series.
Right now the PAC 10 has a solid 5 teams in the big dance and no bubble teams. Any other team that wants to make the big dance from the PAC 10 will have to win the PAC 10 tournament. The bottom teams in this conference have been competitive but not good enough to get on the bubble.
Winter technically isn’t over for another three weeks, but the betting market is heating up anyway with the arrival of March and the requisite push to March Madness. Conference titles, tournament bids and high seeds are up for grabs; we’re likewise going heavy on NCAA basketball in this week’s Top 5 betting games. All times are Eastern, with the latest betting lines available at sports.bodog.com.
We are winding down toward selection Sunday, now just 2 weeks away, and some Conference Tournaments get underway this week. Many teams have punched their ticket to the Big Dance, some others are close, and some others with work to do, and perhaps a surprise or two. Let’s take a look at who is likely in, and who is on the bubble.
The Big East has been given the best conference tag by almost every expert in college basketball. Today Craig handicaps the Bubble teams from the Big East. Most NCAA Hoops experts see eight safe teams for the NCAA tournament: UCONN, Pittsburgh, Villanova, Marquette, Louisville, West Virginia, Syracuse.
The NBA season is a long one and there are certainly a number of angles that tend to work over the course of the season with looking for an NBA Picks advantage. For years a number of “experts” hung their hat of fading teams playing their second of back to back games on the road.
The Cleveland Cavaliers barely survived in Atlanta on Sunday and now have another tough test at the Miami Heat.
Sportsbook.com has Cleveland as 3 ½-point favorites with a Total of 186.5. The game will be played at 7:30 pm ET
Cleveland (46-12, 37-21 ATS) is playing their fourth road game in five nights, as the Cavs erased a five-point deficit with 1:42 remaining to win at Atlanta 88-87 last night. This has been no ordinary road trip either for Cleveland, with every opponent well-positioned to make the postseason.
The NBA is just past the two-third mark and the games are becoming that much more important. Matt Fargo has been looking into Hot and Cold NBA bets throughout the season and he takes a look at four games that you will want to pay attention to coming up over the next few days.
You know what they say, NHL betting fans: you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. So you can’t teach Martin Brodeur to, uh, not…stop…pucks. OK, it’s a bad analogy. But it’s Monday, so gimme a break.
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish have a must win game Monday night when they host the Villanova Wildcats.
The Irish have played some good basketball of late, winning four of five heading into the weekend although bettors aren’t thrilled with their 2-3 ATS record.
Notre Dame still has a slim chance to make the NCAA tournament if they win at home against St. John’s on March 6th and take care of Nova on Monday night.
