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The Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners resume their rivalry on Monday night with both teams ranked in the top ten. Texas is ranked seventh and Oklahoma is ranked sixth. Sports betting fans have to love how Oklahoma’s basketball team has caught up to their football team. The Sooners have provided online basketball betting fans some opportunity for profit by going 6 and 5 against the spread.
BetUS NCAA Basketball Sports Betting Odds: SAN DIEGO -1.5
Here are some of the NCAA basketball sports betting trends as they relate to this matchup:
* SD has won four of its last five games SU
* SD has covered three of its last four games
California has captured a winning formula under their first-year coach, Mike Montgomery, who was formerly the head man at Stanford and with the NBA’s Golden State Warriors. The Bears have scored big non-conference wins over UNLV, DePaul, Utah and Nevada, and opened up the Pac-10 season beating both Arizona and Arizona State. They haven’t had to travel yet in the conference schedule, so this will be more of a test than some might expect.
Not much was expected of Michigan this season, but this team busted out fast, winning games against UCLA and Duke in the first month of the campaign. Of course, that’s not the kind of thing that guarantees success in the Big Ten, as Wisconsin was quick to remind them a week ago when they came to Ann Arbor and left with a 73-61 victory.
Duke has had a hot hand lately, shooting 52% against NC-Asheville, 52.5% against Xavier and 54.5% against Loyola. Against Virginia Tech in its last outing, though, the Blue Devils hit less than 41% of their shots. They won the game with defense, holding the Hokies to just 13 points and 33% shooting in the second half.
The Gonzaga Bulldogs are riding a three-game losing streak as they head to a tough Tennessee Volunteers team tonight.
Sportsbook.com has Tennessee as 3 ½-point favorites. ESPN2 will broadcast starting at 9 pm ET.
Gonzaga has an 8-4 record (5-5 ATS), but that’s disappointing since they won their first seven games, including beating Tennessee in the Old Spice Classic in Orlando.
The Villanova Wildcats (12-2 SU, 5-5 ATS, 2-8 O/U) are coming off a disheartening 79-72 New Year’s Day road loss to Marquette in their conference opener in which they failed to cover the spread for BetUS NCAAB sports betting backers as a 3-point underdog in the BetUS Sportsbook. The Seton Hall Pirates (9-5 SU, 4-5 ATS, 4-4 O/U) were absolutely obliterated in their 92-66 homes loss to West Virginia on Saturday, failing to cover the spread as 3-point home underdogs.
One of the best rivalries in all of college basketball resumes on Tuesday night when the Ohio State Buckeyes battle the Michigan State Spartans. Ohio State, due to losses to both West Virginia and Minnesota in two out of their three last games, is no longer ranked.
The Connecticut Huskies travel to West Virginia to battle the Mountaineers in what sports betting fans have to consider one of the most intriguing match-ups of the week in college basketball. The Big East is loaded with good teams and UConn and West Virginia are two of them. The Mountaineers have done very well this season while playing some of the best teams in the nation.
BetUS NCAA Basketball Sports Betting Matchup:
Kentucky Wildcats (11-3 SU, 5-3-1 ATS) at Louisville Cardinals (8-3 SU, 5-6 ATS)
Freedom Hall, Louisville — 4:30 PM ET
Here are some of the NCAA basketball sports betting trends as they relate to this matchup:
Western Carolina is the only team in the country that is averaging more than North Carolina’s 95.8 points per game. Thus far the Heels have outscored their opponents by an average margin of almost 27 points a game, and it’s been done for the most part with the team not at full strength.
One of the big positives about Louisville is its ability to get the ball around the floor. The Cardinals are averaging 18.6 assists per game, which currently ranks them eighth in the country among “board teams.” Naturally when you do that you’re going to get yourself in position for a high percentage of good shots, right? Well, almost.
Gonzaga doesn’t know what hit them. Certainly it wasn’t the biggest shocker in the world that they lost in Seattle to the U-Conn Huskies, who are loaded. Following that game, however, they lost to Portland State, shooting just 43%. With the loss on December 14 at Arizona, that means the ‘Zags have lost three of their last four games.
Michigan finds itself building a winner quicker than many thought possible under coach John Beilein, who like Rich Rodriguez came to Ann Arbor from West Virginia and sought to remake the program. Wisconsin will try to upset the applecart with the fundamental style of play it exhibits under Bo Ryan.
Illinois is undergoing a revitalization of its program under Bruce Weber this year, and it’s no wonder, with much-improved guard play. The Illini has tallied almost 20 assists per game, and the ball movement which has been so successful in Weber’s motion offense has resulted in 49% shooting accuracy.
The Cincinnati Bearcats have gotten their 2008-09 NCAA basketball campaign off to a great start and come into tonight’s matchup against the Memphis Tigers at FedEx Forum, riding a four-game winning streak in the BetUS Sportsbook. Memphis may be the nationally-ranked team in this contest, but the defending national-champion runner-ups have been the more inconsistent of the two teams tonight, alternating wins and losses in each of their last seven games.
