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The AAC Tournament is in full swing, and Tulsa meets Memphis as a 4 or 5-point favorite.
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Buddy Hield deserves every ounce of praise he gets. But he'll forever owe bettors who backed Oklahoma on Thursday night. Here's why.
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UCLA's 2015-16 season has been a disaster by all accounts, and with a loss, the Bruins would finish under .500 for the second time in the last decade. They've dropped four straight games, both SU and ATS.
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Georgia Tech may have saved its best basketball for last.
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Sports bettors love March Madness — and not just for the NCAA Tournament. Conference Tournament Week provides some great betting chances and value, too. The Linemakers on Sporting News compiled all the stats, odds, picks and more into conference previews to get you ready for tournament week.
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The Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook lists 10 teams on its SEC Tournament odds, more than any other major conference. Kentucky is the odds-on favorite at -110, but has a much easier draw than the other top betting choices.
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Kansas has won 12 straight Big 12 regular season titles, but it's another team that has been king in the conference's postseason tournament recently.
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Despite the depth of the Big Ten, there's a clear favorite to win its conference tournament.
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The Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook lists seven of the ACC's 14 teams in its title odds, with the other seven grouped as "the field" at 15-to-1. Top seeds UNC and Virginia are the favorites, with Duke and Miami positioned behind.
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Purdue beat Wisconsin 61-55 as 5-point favorites in early January, which shows the increase in the Badgers' rating over the last two months. If they had stayed the same, Purdue would be a double-digit favorite.
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Maryland has lost three of its last five, going 1-4 ATS in that span. Indiana has been hot both straight up and vs. the number, winning its lat four (3-1 ATS). The Hoosiers are 11-5 ATS at home, being favored in all those games.
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Illinois was going nowhere with Cubit. Even its former interim AD said it. So in order to go forward, the Illini had to go backward in the short term.
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The Warriors are 55-5 and will need to go at least 18-4 in their last 22 games to break the 1995-96 Bulls' NBA record of 72 wins in a single season. There's now an 80 percent chance Golden State does it, according to oddsmakers.
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Iowa State has covered four of the last five meetings in this series, including an 85-72 win as 1-point home favorites in late January.
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Duke won outright two weeks ago as a 7.5-point underdogs, extending a run of dogs in this series. The favorite is just 2-8 ATS in the last 10 meetings between these two teams.
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Louisville has really struggled to cash on the road over the last two months. The Cardinals are 1-8 ATS in their last nine road games.
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Texas is getting 85 percent of spread bets, per Sports Insights, and is 10-7 ATS in Big 12 play. The Longhorns are 6-3 ATS on the road, as well.
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SportsBettingDime.com has released betting lines on a whole slew of offseason stories, including the destinations of Greg Hardy, Robert Griffin III, Johnny Manziel and Peyton Manning.
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While Panthers have been the biggest surprise of the NHL season, the Avalanche have gone up and down for a while now. They're fighting for the playoff spot in the tough west and did make a move for Mikkel Bodker at the trade deadline.
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Wichita State has been the class of the Missouri Valley Conference for much of the last decade, but it hasn't translated into success come early March. Still, the Shockers are a huge favorite to win the MVC Tournament, which begins Thursday night in St. Louis.
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Floyd Mayweather, he of the multi-million dollar wagers, is retiring from sports betting. If that's the case, it ends a storied gambling career that was five parts cocky, four parts deceiving and one part brilliant.
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After cleaning up on Super Tuesday, Donald Trump is a heavy favorite to win the Republican nomination. Such a big favorite, in fact, that Irish book Paddy Power has already paid out $130,000 to its customers who bet on Trump, according to Bloomberg.
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The AFC North and NFC East will be dog fights this fall, the rest of the NFC divisions have clear favorites and the Browns are still a complete disaster. That's what oddsmakers think, anyway.
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More than 75 percent of spread bets are coming in on Dayton, which hasn't covered in six straight games (3-3 SU). Richmond snapped an 0-4 ATS skid with a 16-point win at Duquesne as a 1-point favorite.
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Oklahoma is 2-5 ATS in its last seven and is 6-6 ATS at home this season. The Sooners' last six games have gone UNDER. Six of Baylor's last seven have gone OVER.
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Iowa has been a tailspin over the last month, dropping four of its last five, including games to Penn State and Ohio State. Its only win came over Minnesota, 75-71, as 19.5-point favorites.
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Clinton is still favored in the general at -175 with Trump at +187. Marco Rubio is the third betting choice at 11-to-1.
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North Carolina is coming off a loss to Virginia and travels to Duke on Saturday for the final game of the regular season.
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Texas is 3-0 as a home underdog and 8-4 as a dog this season. The Longhorns are catching a few points Monday night hosting Kansas.
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Iowa has been slipping lately, losing three of its last four. Can the Hawkeyes get back on track at Ohio State?
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Five straight Duke games have gone UNDER and four of Pitt's last five have, too.
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This is a tough spot for Xavier coming off its biggest win (home over Villanova) of the season and possibly the last few years.
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The NFL will televise just about anything, from the Combine to the league's schedule release. Here are five things they might soon.
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Maryland travels to Purdue in a game with big implications on the Big Ten standings.
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Utah opened -2.5 and has moved up to -3 in the early morning.
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Columbia (8-2 in Ivy League play) travels to Princeton as an 8-point dog looking to keep pace with Yale (9-1) and Princeton (8-1) in the conference standings.
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No team at CG has a win total higher than 10.5 and the Super Bowl champion Broncos sit at 9.5. The Browns come in lowest at 4.5.
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This is a spot Penn State often fails in — the Nits are 3-7 ATS as a home favorite of less than four points since 2012.
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Nearly 70 percent of bets are coming in on USC, the better team destined for the tournament, but this seems like a trap spot for the Trojans.
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Iowa has gotten a full week to digest a 79-75 loss at Penn State last Wednesday, and enters this game as a 6.5-point favorite.
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Xavier opened as a 1 or 1.5-point favorite at most shops, but early action made Villanova the favorite.
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Conor McGregor will be jumping up two weight classes when he faces Nate Diaz for the welterweight title at UFC 196 on March 5, but he's still a heavy favorite.
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Following his win in Nevada on Tuesday, William Hill has made Donald Trump a -200 favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination. He still remains the second betting choice to win the general election (+250) behind Hillary Clinton at -125.
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In 1980, the Olympic men's hockey medal round was played in a round-robin, not single-elimination, format.
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Minnesota, winners of four straight, is a -125 favorite at home against the Islanders on Tuesday night. Since firing coach Mike Yeo, the Wild have outscored their opponents 21-8.
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Robert Griffin III will not be a Washington Redskin next season. That much we know. But Bovada now has a prop for where he'll land.
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Dying to bet on football? Well, even in February, there's a way.
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Leonardo DiCaprio has never won the Oscar for best actor despite some fine performances and three previous nominations. That will likely change Sunday night thanks to a movie he has almost no dialogue in.
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The Tide are 12-5 ATS as an underdog this season and 5-5 ATS on the road.
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Both Ohio State and Michigan State have been on impressive ATS runs. Which will end tonight in Columbus?
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Kansas has won and covered seven straight games, with five of those going UNDER.
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Maryland is 6-8 ATS at home this year, while Michigan is 4-4 ATS on the road (but 0-4 as a road underdog). The Wolverines won the first meeting between these teams, 70-67, as a 2.5-point home underdog.
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Purdue hasn't covered in four straight and is 1-7 ATS in its last eight.
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Gonzaga has dominated this matchup over the last few years, going 8-2 ATS and straight-up. The UNDER is 8-2 in the last 10 meetings between these two.
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WVU is 7-2 ATS at home this season and 8-5 ATS in conference.
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A flood of money on underdog Dhafir Harris has prompted many sports books to pull the fight off the board.
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Bovada has full odds on all the divisional winners, with the Mets and Cubs both at minus-money. The American League divisions are much more wide-open.
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This story has nothing to do with spring break or homework or classes, really. It has everything to do with Harbaugh pushing a set of mythical boundaries about "time management" and "student-athlete well-being" that the NCAA pretends exist.
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You're going to want to tune into this game. Why? Points, and the possibility that another fight breaks out after the buzzer sounds.
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The UNDER is 8-1 in the Bearcats' road games this year.
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Both teams have been on ATS rolls — Wisconsin 7-0 with seven straight-up wins, Michigan State 6-0 and 5-1 straight-up.
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The OVER is 8-4 in UCLA's Pac-12 games and 9-4 in its home games, but the UNDER is 2-6 when Utah is on the road and 5-8 in conference play.
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After covering five of six, UConn has now dropped three straight against the number. The Huskies are just 4-8 ATS in conference play and 5-5 ATS at home.
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When betting futures like the World Series winner, be sure to calculate the theoretical hold at each book to see if it's giving you a fair price.
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Arizona is 7-3 ATS in the last 10 meetings between these two teams.
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The Owls are 14-6 ATS in their last 20 as a home underdog. They're +8.5 at home against Villanova tonight.
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