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National Championship Game Picks: Butler vs. UConn Odds and Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 4/4/2011

Butler and Connecticut for all the marbles -- just like you imagined it, I'm sure. This is a wildly unpredictable final, but that seems fitting in a year when the only dependable thing in college basketball was surprise. There weren't many teams that seemed elite, and those always found a way to disappoint just when it seemed like they were on track.
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Final Four Picks: Butler vs. VCU Odds and Predictions
by Darin Zank - 4/1/2011

In one of the most unlikely national semifinal matchups in NCAA Tournament history, the amazing Butler Bulldogs are in the unusual position of taking on an even bigger Cinderella when they play the VCU Rams Saturday evening at Reliant Stadium in Houston (6:09 p.m. EST, CBS).
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Final Four Picks: Kentucky vs. UConn Odds and Predictions
by Aaron Smith - 3/31/2011

While not many people expected this matchup in the Final Four, this is clearly the side of the bracket that isn't a complete shock to basketball fans around the country. The winner of this game will square off against either VCU or Butler in the title game on Monday night. Both Kentucky and UConn have young teams, but their coaches have plenty of experience in the Final Four.
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Final Four Predictions: Brandon Knight vs. Kemba Walker Props
by Alan Matthews - 3/31/2011

It feels rather fitting that we do a combined props story for the Final Four on Kentucky's Brandon Knight and Kemba Walker, his Connecticut counterpart, because neither team would be in Houston if not for their star point guard.
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Final Four Betting Trends for the NCAA Tournament
by Trevor Whenham - 3/30/2011

We may be about to witness the strangest Final Fours of all time. Two mid-majors that only barely made the field are in this year and one has played an extra game to get where they are. Two iconic major conference programs that overcame midseason struggles to get hot in time for their conference tournaments, and have managed to carry that momentum forward this far will face off in the other side of the bracket.
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Final Four Odds and NCAA Tournament Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 3/28/2011

This is, of course, exactly the Final Four I knew it was going to be. I mean, how could you not see this one coming? Clearly this was going to be just the second year that a No. 1 didn't advance to the Final Four. And clearly two coaches under the age of 35 were going to make the last weekend while legends were going to be cast aside.
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Sweet 16 Picks: Kentucky vs. Ohio State Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/25/2011

With all due respect to the other seven games, if you don't think Kentucky vs. Ohio State is the glamour matchup of the Sweet 16 then you simply don't know college basketball. This East Region game on Friday night in Newark, N.J., is the highlight of the Sweet 16, with the winner to face the Marquette-North Carolina victor on Sunday.
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Sweet 16 Picks: UConn vs. San Diego State Odds and Predictions
by Darin Zank - 3/24/2011

The Connecticut Huskies might be the hottest team in college basketball. The San Diego State Aztecs have lost twice all season. So it will be two pretty good teams going at it when San Diego State, the two seed in the East region, meets third-seeded UConn in an NCAA tournament regional semifinal game Thursday night at the Honda Center in Anaheim (7:15 p.m. Eastern, CBS).
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NCAA Tournament Predictions and Sweet 16 Futures Odds
by Dave Schwab - 3/23/2011

The original 68-team field for this year's NCAA Tournament has been pared down to the Sweet 16. There are three No.1 seeds left as well as four double-digit seeded teams, and no region has followed suit will all top four seeds advancing on. The following is a look at my NCAA Tournament predictions for the remaining teams that have a legitimate shot at winning a national title along with the value their current futures odds provide. All odds quoted are courtesy of Sports Interaction.
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Sweet 16 Predictions: Double-Digit Seeds
by Trevor Whenham - 3/23/2011

There are four double-digit seeds remaining in the Sweet 16 this year, the most in any year since 1999. That's an amazing statistic, but what's even more amazing is that Florida State, VCU, and Richmond are all in the Southwest bracket. That means that Kansas, the No. 1 seed, can make it all the way to the Final Four without playing a team seeded higher than ninth. No wonder they are now favored to win the tournament at some books.
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NCAA Tournament Betting Trends
by Trevor Whenham - 3/23/2011

We can often learn a lot in sports betting about what is likely to happen in the future from what has happened in the past. That can especially be true with something like the NCAA Tournament where we see the same teams playing in increasingly pressure-filled games over a short time frame. Here's a day-by-day look back at the first four days of the 2011 tournament from a betting perspective so we can see which NCAA Tournament betting trends have emerged that could be useful:
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This Week in March Madness Betting, A-Z
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 3/23/2011

A - Ashton Gibbs. The Pitt hoopster has apparently had enough of school and ,conveniently enough, he decided that just two days after his top-seeded Panthers were bounced from the NCAA Tournament by No. 8 seed Butler. Gibbs tweeted, "Man school just isn't for me smh." The tweet was published in a daily Pittsburgh newspaper. We are led to believe that 'smh' is the name of some European basketball league where Gibbs will be playing next.
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Sweet 16 Picks: Kansas vs. Richmond Odds and Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 3/23/2011

This was the round in which I expected Kansas to get their first legitimate challenge of the tournament. That may still be the case, but I was quite sure it would come from Louisville, not Richmond. Judging by all of the complaining, most people who filled out a bracket thought the same basic thing. Just because it's a long way from a predictable matchup, though, doesn't mean it's not an intriguing one.
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March Madness Predictions: Reseeding the Brackets
by Trevor Whenham - 3/23/2011

For the weeks and even months leading up to the NCAA Tournament college basketball fans are fascinated by seeding. Who is going to get into the tournament? What seed will they get when they get there? Which teams will be No. 1s? It's an obsession. Once the tournament starts, though, that fixation on seeding largely goes out the door in favor of March Madness brackets, upsets, and everything else that is great about the tournament. In the free time between rounds, though, I miss all of the seeding talk and speculation.
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NCAA Tournament Odds and Predictions for Sweet 16
by Trevor Whenham - 3/22/2011

And then there were eight. The chaos of the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament has boiled down to a much saner and manageable number of games this week -- just four Sweet 16 games per day on Thursday and Friday. There might be fewer, but this weekend's contests are no less interesting than the crazy ones we have just witnessed. Here's a look at the NCAA Tournament Odds, Sweet 16 variety, and some predictions from my first reaction to each pairing (all NCAA Tournament odds are from BetUS):
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Sweet 16 Picks: BYU vs. Florida Odds and Predictions
by Dave Schwab - 3/22/2011

The bottom of the bracket in the Southeast Region has followed suit with the No.3 seed BYU Cougars squaring off against the No.2 seed Florida Gators in the Sweet 16 round of this year's NCAA Men's Tournament. Thursday's game from the Superdome in New Orleans is scheduled to tip at 7:27 p.m. (EST) and it will be broadcast nationally on TBS.
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Sweet 16 Predictions and March Madness Futures Odds
by Alan Matthews - 3/22/2011

With the NCAA Tournament's first week a thing of the past, it's time to take a new look at those brackets and re-evaluate your betting options. Certainly oddsmakers are doing that. For example, at Bodog on the prop where you can bet on which conference the national champion comes from, the odds have shifted fairly dramatically. The Big 12 - i.e. Kansas - was the favorite before the Big Dance started. And
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NCAA Tournament Odds and Predictions - Sweet 16
by Dave Schwab - 3/21/2011

The initial field of 68 teams for this year's NCAA Tournament has been pared down to the Sweet 16 survivors who will continue their quest for a national title this upcoming Thursday and Friday. The following is a brief look at all four matchups and provide some betting predictions for each day along with the NCAA Tournament odds as provided by Sportsbook.com.
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NCAA Tournament Predictions: Duke vs. Michigan
by Trevor Whenham - 3/19/2011

These are giddy times to be a Michigan fan. My beloved Wolverines looked to be en route to a season almost as disappointing as last year's when they started conference play with an ugly 1-6 record. A switch flipped, though, and this team hasn't looked back since. They were 9-3 down the stretch in conference play, won a game in the Big Ten Tournament, crushed the life out of Tennessee in their opening game, and showed without question that this is a team moving in the right direction.
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NCAA Tournament Picks: Pitt vs. Butler Odds and Predictions
by Darin Zank - 3/18/2011

The Butler Bulldogs rode a wave last spring all the way to college basketball's National Championship game. And they added to their recent tournament resume Thursday with a buzzer-beating first-round victory over Old Dominion. The Pitt Panthers, meanwhile, entered this season and this NCAA Tournament with great expectations, as they search for that long-elusive Final Four berth.
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March Madness Picks: UCLA vs. Florida Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/18/2011

Does Saturday afternoon's third-round (that still sounds wrong - damn you First Four!) Southeast Region matchup in Tampa between UCLA and Florida sound rather familiar? It should: Florida beat the Bruins in the 2006 National Championship Game and again in the 2007 Final Four. The winner of this one gets a trip to New Orleans to face the Gonzaga-BYU winner in the Sweet 16.
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NCAA Tournament Odds and Predictions For Saturday
by Dave Schwab - 3/18/2011

As is typical with the first full day of action in the NCAA Tournament, there were blowouts, buzzer beaters, and a couple of bracket-busting victories that came together to validate the madness that is March. The survivors of Thursday's games will now regroup to try and play their way into this year's Sweet 16 in a full state of action this Saturday. The following is a brief look at all eight matchups along with the NCAA Tournament odds as provided by betED. We will also offer some predictions on how the games might go.
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NCAA Tournament Picks: Illinois vs. UNLV Odds and Predictions
by Darin Zank - 3/17/2011

The No. 8 vs. No. 9 game in the Southwest Region of this NCAA Tournament gives us one of those matchups involving a mediocre team from a big conference vs. one of the better teams from a (supposedly) weaker conference. Throw in the fact that one team is going against one of its former coaches and you've got my interest. That's the scene as the Fighting Illini of Illinois get ready to take on Lon Kruger and his UNLV Rebels in Tulsa Friday night (9:20 p.m. EST, TBS).
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This Week in March Madness Betting, A-Z
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 3/17/2011

F - Free Pizza. In case you needed more reason to cheer for a No. 16 seed on Thursday and Friday, Pizza Hut is upping the ante. If a No. 16 seed does the unthinkable and knocks off a top seed, then Pizza Hut is giving out free pizza throughout the continental United States.
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March Madness Bracket Predictions: Southwest Region
by Robert Ferringo - 3/16/2011

Perhaps no other region in the NCAA Tournament has as many talented-yet-obviously-flawed teams vying for its slot in the Final Four. There are no less than seven teams that I could see coming out of this region and not be completely surprised. But then again, I won't be stunned if five of those seven teams aren't even playing next weekend. And as a result I get the sense that this is going to be the most chaotic region in the entire bracket and the place where next Monday morning people are pointing to and saying, "Who saw that coming?"
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NCAA Tournament Picks: Belmont vs. Wisconsin Odds and Predictions
by Vegas Sports Informer - 3/16/2011

The Belmont Bruins and the Wisconsin Badgers will face off in the first round of the NCAA tournament at 7:25 p.m. EST on Thursday in Tucson. This appears to be a matchup between two totally opposite squads, as one team loves to push the ball up-and-down the court at both ends while the other loves to play in-your-face defense and a methodical half-court offense.
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NCAA Tournament Predictions: Conference Betting Props
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 3/16/2011

So much gets made about conferences come March Madness. The Big East sent a record 11 teams to the NCAA Tournament this year, Conference USA somehow got two bids, the ACC only got four bids but it has plenty of quality and the Big Ten has seven bids and the ability to make plenty of noise. Here are some of the conference-affiliated NCAA Tournament predictions for betting props available on Sportsbook.com
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NCAA Tournament Odds: Interesting Prop Bets With Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 3/16/2011

When it comes to prop bets the NCAA Tournament can't touch the Super Bowl, the king of all prop betting experiences. There are still a lot of different ways to get action on this tournament, though. Let's do a survey of some of the different sportsbooks to find their most interesting NCAA Tournament odds for prop bets:
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NCAA Tournament Seed History
by Aaron Smith - 3/16/2011

Looking at NCAA Tournament seed history, we want to find out which seeds historically do the best and worst in the NCAA Tournament. It's fairly obvious that the No. 1 seeds will be the best and the No. 16 will be the worst, but in the middle are some interesting statistics that could help you get a leg up on the competition in your bracket pool this year. Let's take a closer look at some interesting statistics about seeds in the NCAA Tournament. Unless otherwise noted, these facts come from games played after the field was expanded to 64 teams in 1985 (it is now 68 teams). Here are some key numbers for NCAA Tournament seed history:
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March Madness Prop Bets and Predictions
by Darin Zank - 3/16/2011

Basketball bettors won't have any problems finding March Madness futures odds. Just about every online sportsbook is offering prices on who will win the tournament, and even on each of the regions. If possible, bettors who want to get down on those wagering opportunities might do well to shop around at different books and search out the best prices.
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March Madness Trivia Questions and Answers
by Trevor Whenham - 3/16/2011

Here are eight March Madness trivia questions to get you in the mood for the tournament. If you get more than five right then you probably watch way too much college basketball. I respect you for that. If you get all eight right, though, then you might want to go out right away and find yourself a life:
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NCAA Tournament Futures Odds and Predictions
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 3/16/2011

There are almost as many betting props out there as potential bracket combinations. It can be a little overwhelming sorting through all the potential wagers and all the games and sorting out the best bets for this tournament. Couple that with the countless March Madness brackets you have filled out for your office pool, your dad's office pool, your roommate's pool, etc., and the phrase 'March Madness' could be used to describe your evolving state of mind this week.
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NCAA Tournament Predictions: Best and Worst Conferences
by Aaron Smith - 3/16/2011

As you are handicapping each region and filling out your March Madness brackets for every game in the NCAA Tournament, you must consider every factor that could affect the outcome. One of the tools that you'll need to use is strength of conference. It absolutely matters what type of conference each team played in during the regular season. These teams will be well-prepared for the tournament if they are in a strong conference with a regular slate of top-notch opponents.
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March Madness Predictions and Bracket Help: West Region
by Robert Ferringo - 3/15/2011

The West Region of the NCAA Tournament should be known as The Defending Champs and the Dangerous Dozen. Duke, the defending National Champion, has the inside track to another Final Four berth. But in order to make their way to Houston they will have to navigate a region that includes five other teams that were ranked in the Top 10 this year and at least a half-dozen others - Michigan, Memphis, Oakland, Missouri, Temple, Penn State - that are capable of stringing together two or three wins and busting brackets across the country.
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NCAA Tournament Bracket Predictions: Southeast Region
by Robert Ferringo - 3/15/2011

If this were the World Cup then the Southeast Region would be considered the Group of Death. The 2010 runner-up is the No. 8 seed (Butler). The best scorer in the country is with the No. 3 seed (BYU). Two programs with a combined nine Final Four appearances in the last 12 years are playing one another (Michigan State vs. UCLA) as the No. 7 and No. 10 seeds.
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March Madness Bracket Predictions: East Region
by Robert Ferringo - 3/15/2011

The East (Newark) Region of the NCAA Tournament features four of the top 10 most heavily favored teams to win the national title. Top seeded Ohio State presently has the third-best odds to win the title (+465) while Kentucky (+1615), North Carolina (+2050) and Syracuse (+2550) are all among the Top 10 teams deemed most likely to win it all.
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March Madness Brackets Advice and Tips: Over-Seeded and Under-Seeded Teams
by Trevor Whenham - 3/15/2011

Creating the March Madness bracket every year is a brutally hard job, and I fully realize and respect how it would be totally impossible to make everyone happy. Still, that respect doesn't mean I have to like or agree with everything they do. This year in particular there seems to be a particularly high number of head-scratchers. That's what you get when you put a guy from Ohio State in charge of anything, I guess. Here's a look at the most over-seeded and under-seeded teams in the bracket in my eyes with some March Madness brackets advice and tips to help you avoid common mistakes that the rest of your competition will likely make:
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NCAA Tournament Predictions: Potential Early Upsets
by Darin Zank - 3/15/2011

When it comes to handicapping the opening round of the NCAA Tournament, whether it's to wager on individual games or fill out a bracket, the logic boils down to this; the top seeds are going to win most of the games, but there will be a handful of upsets. The trick is to pick those upsets in advance. Because what good is an upset if you can't take advantage of it?
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NCAA Tournament Brackets Strategy: Potential Trap Games
by Trevor Whenham - 3/15/2011

Every year in the tournament there are the teams that the public really likes -- the high profile, usually highly seeded teams full of future NBA stars that the media has been talking about as a potential champion. When the public locks on to one of those teams they are usually very enthusiastic in their support. They don't bother to look too deeply at what challenges face them in the bracket on the way to the Promised Land. They just blindly and loyally back them.
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Potential NCAA Tournament Cinderella Teams
by Alan Matthews - 3/15/2011

Already here at Doc's we previewed the No. 5 vs. No. 12 second-round matchups (it still feels weird saying second round but that's what the NCAA calls the former first round now that there is a "First Four" on Tuesday and Wednesday). So for this story on potential Cinderella teams for the NCAA Tournament, I will forgo any No. 12 seeds, although there are two very good potential Cinderellas in that group (Utah State and Richmond).
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March Madness Predictions and Betting Advice
by Trevor Whenham - 3/15/2011

The tournament is finally here. After months of watching basketball constantly, weeks of watching the bubble like a hawk, days of conference tournament addiction, and now countless hours of studying the bracket, I am ready to make five bold March Madness predictions about what is going to happen starting Thursday. They may not really be that bold, but they aren't totally safe, either:
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March Madness Brackets Strategy: Reseeding the Brackets
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 3/15/2011

The NCAA Selection Committee does not have the luxury of seeding every team like it deserves to be seeded. The four best teams are usually the No. 1 seeds. The worst four teams are playing in the play-in games. But in between that the selection committee has to juggle teams to avoid regular-season rematches and potential conference showdowns in the second round all while taking major consideration to the location of the game. What this means is that rarely are teams assigned their true seed.
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NCAA Tournament Brackets Strategy: The No. 5 vs. No. 12 Seed Upsets
by Alan Matthews - 3/15/2011

Overall, the No. 5 seed is 69-35 against the No. 12 seed since the NCAA Tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985. So nearly 67 percent of the time the No. 5 comes out victorious. But being that there are four 5-12 games, that generally does mean you see one No. 12 over a No. 5 first-round upset. It happened last year, for example, with Cornell beating Temple. By comparison, a No. 4 seed is 82-22 since 1985 against a No. 13 seed and a No. 6 is 71-33 against a No. 11.
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NCAA Tournament Handicapping: The Biggest Challenges
by Aaron Smith - 3/15/2011

This is one of the most exciting weeks of the year for sports fans and bettors. March Madness captures the attention of nearly everyone with its trademark tremendous finishes. There's no doubt this year's tournament will be another exciting one. If there is a negative to March Madness for the average sports bettor, it clearly is the amazing amount of challenges that come with handicapping the NCAA Tournament. College basketball handicapping during the tournament is far different than during the regular season. Let's take a closer look at some of the challenges that are specific to the NCAA Tournament.
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NCAA Tournament Predictions: Potential Sweet Sixteen Surprises
by Trevor Whenham - 3/15/2011

The NCAA Tournament is as brilliant as it is because of many things, but upsets would be chief among them. There are few things I like more in sports than seeing the dust settle after the opening weekend and seeing some incredibly unlikely teams still alive when 48 other teams (or 52 thanks to this stupid new format) are already on their way home with their tails between their legs. What makes these upsets so exciting is that they aren't always easy to spot. Here are six spots, though, that seem to have at least a decent chance of producing a pleasing shocker according to my NCAA Tournament predictions:
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NCAA Tournament Facts and Interesting Tidbits
by Trevor Whenham - 3/14/2011

The term March Madness has only been associated with the NCAA Tournament since the early 1980's -- perhaps thanks to usage by Brent Musberger. It's been around referring to college basketball a lot longer than that, though. High school basketball tournaments in Midwestern states like Indiana and Illinois have been using the term since the 1930s.
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NCAA Tournament Betting Trends
by Trevor Whenham - 3/14/2011

I don't know about you, but I'm getting antsy. The field is set, I've stared at the bracket until I can't see anymore, and now I just want the games to start -- and I'm not talking about those stupid games in Dayton. The next three weeks -- and especially the first four days of the NCAA Tournament -- are like Christmas for sports bettors. To help pass the time until the games start, and to hopefully make the March Madness betting experience more fun and profitable, here's a look at NCAA Tournament betting trends from three different perspectives:
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NCAA Tournament Bracket Tips and Advice
by Trevor Whenham - 3/14/2011

For a lot of people the NCAA Tournament is all about one thing -- winning your tournament pool. If you want to have a good chance of winning your bracket you need to be lucky, but you also need to make sure that you are making good decisions to give yourself the best chance of success. In a lot of pools there are many people who really have no idea how to fill out a bracket properly, so you have a big edge over most of those people just by thinking about what you are doing as you do it. Here are some NCAA Tournament bracket tips and advice to help you find the right path:
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NCAA Tournament Odds and Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 3/14/2011

Looking at the NCAA Tournament odds just minutes after they came out there are a few games that really stand out as surprising or interesting. Here are 10 games that are the most interesting at first glance (NCAA Tournament odds for these games and all others are available from Bookmaker):
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March Madness Brackets Advice and Tips
by Trevor Whenham - 3/14/2011

It's almost time for March Madness to tip off. That means that it is time to fill out your bracket - hopefully your winning bracket. Here is some March Madness bracket advice and tips to help you with your March Madness brackets strategy:
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How to Run a March Madness Brackets Pool
by Alan Matthews - 3/14/2011

It's mid-March, so that means words like "bracketology" and "office pool" will become prevalent around your workplace. It's also a time most employers dread because there will be very little work done next Thursday and Friday in the opening rounds of the NCAA Tournament. Well, technically the opening round is on Tuesday now with the "First Four" - four opening-round games with those winners then advancing to the second round. But in reality the First Four is just four play-in games instead of the usual one we had when the tourney was at 65.
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March Madness Seed Statistics
by Trevor Whenham - 3/11/2011

Trends are a bettor's friend. Or at least they can be a bettor's friend. Every NCAA Tournament is different depending on the teams involved, but over the years there have been enough trends that have emerged that we can have a better sense before things start of what is more or less likely to happen. One of the biggest areas for trends surrounds seeds and the success they have had in the tournament. Here are some of the most compelling March Madness seeds statistics:
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NCAA Tournament Predictions: Teams That Are Hard to Assess
by Trevor Whenham - 3/10/2011

There are some teams that are really easy to figure out heading into the NCAA Tournament -- they are either very strong teams that have the chance to go a long, long way, or they are badly outclassed teams that don't need to book their hotel rooms for long. These five teams unfortunately fit into neither group. These are the 'tweeners' -- teams that have the potential to go really deep if everything goes their way, but which have enough questions surrounding them to make their success far from a certainty. In short, these five teams make my head hurt, and they are going to make my head hurt until the last possible second I have to fill out my bracket -- and perhaps long after that.
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SEC Tournament Predictions and College Basketball Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 3/9/2011

Watching SEC basketball is a lot like watching a WWE Royal Rumble. (Which makes sense, since hillbilly southerners are the primary purveyors of both.) In both the SEC and the Royal Rumble there is biting, clawing, chaos, out-of-control athletes, no real organization, and in the end the winner is usually either one of the obvious choices (Hulk Hogan in the RR, Kentucky in the SEC) or one shrouded in controversy and coming out of nowhere (Mississippi State in 2009 and Georgia in 2008; Vince McMahon in 1999).
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