NCAA College Basketball Brackets Betting

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March Madness really starts a week earlier than the official start of the NCAA tournament. Conference tournaments begin the week before the big dance and they are intriguing as well, with teams battling for the final spots in the tourney.

A total of 31 conferences will place an automatic qualifier into the NCAA tournament field.

As the tourney also requires no fewer than 34 at-large selections, there will once again be a “play-in” game between the teams rated No. 64 and No. 65 in the field. That contest will be held March 17 in Dayton, Ohio, with the winner advancing to a Friday-Sunday sub-regional as a No. 16 seed.

With all of this action, from the Sweet Sixteen to the Final Four betting, March is definitely a month that any sports bettor in the world wants to be a part of. I guess that is why they call it March Madness.

NCAA championship game odds and the Sweet Sixteen basketball lines will get tight, as they advance toward the Elite Eight and NCAA college basketball glory.

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The Sweet Sixteen and the Elite Eight

The third and fourth rounds of the tournament are played in four cities, with each city hosting two third round games and one fourth round game. The third round is technically called the regional semi-finals, because at that point there are four teams left in each of the four regions. However, it is more often referred to as the Sweet Sixteen, because there are 16 teams left in the tournament.

The fourth round is the regional finals, often called the Elite Eight. Usually by the time the regional finals are played, the lower-seeded teams have been eliminated. Occasionally a number eight or nine seed will survive this long, but usually the final eight teams have seeds between one and five9. The winner of each regional advances to the Final Four.

The Final Four

The Final Four has become a major event on the American sports scene, rivalling the Super Bowl and World Series. The last four teams remaining in the tournament come together in one city for three games. The semi-finals are played on Saturday, and the championship game is played on Monday night.

For example, you might have a team favored by 6 points with a total of 144. Usually you can divide that number in half for the side but you might need to make a little adjustment on the total when you look at the March Madness bet odds. The second half tends to have more scoring. In this example a first half line might have the favored team laying three points with a total of 71. Usually the side is divided evenly which is why the favorite is laying three points for the first half.