March Madness Expert Bracket Advice: Highest Seeds With Toughest Path To Final
by Alan Matthews - 3/15/2016

You can have the NFL playoffs, NBA Finals or World Series. In my opinion, the greatest couple of weeks in American sports, from a fan and betting perspective, have arrived: March Madness. The NCAA Tournament takes the most action of any event annually in the U.S., even more than the Super Bowl. And I highly recommend to get to Vegas if you can for a March Madness day. Crazy.

NCAA Tournament Betting Help: Best and Worst ATS Teams in the Big Dance
by Victor Ryan - 3/15/2016

There are a handful of teams in this year's NCAA Tournament that were virtual ATMs for bettors during the regular season and conference tournaments. Can these teams continue to turn a profit in the Big Dance? Conversely, there are teams with good enough resumes to participate in March Madness that consistently struggled to beat the number. Let's take a closer look.

Betting Odds and Free Picks NCAA Tournament Team Props
by Dave Schwab - 3/15/2016

There are an almost endless amount of ways to bet on this year's NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, and Bovada is contributing to the cause with some special team props that will test the confidence level in your picks. Since I am already feeling pretty good about my bracket, I am going to tackle a pair of these props with picks that offer the best value in the betting odds. I also added a bonus pick on the number of buzzer-beating victories in this year's Big Dance.

March Madness Bracket Trends for Seeds
by Chris Vasile - 3/15/2016

As we inch closer to the noon deadline on Thursday, March 17, millions of people from around the world are putting the final addition on what they hope will be the perfect bracket. From a numbers standpoint, there are 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 possible bracket outcomes, making the odds of a perfect bracket over 9.2-quintillion-to-1. You have a better chance of winning the Powerball Lottery than picking a perfect bracket.

March Madness Betting Strategies: Reseeding the Bracket
by Chris Vasile - 3/15/2016

There are 347 Division I teams that make up the college basketball landscape. All of them have aspirations of reaching the NCAA Tournament come mid-March. However, after four months of grueling competition, only 68 teams get the ultimate chance to compete for a national title.

How To Wager on the NCAA Tournament and March Madness Betting Tips
by George Monroy - 3/15/2016

The madness of March is about to begin this weekend when the NCAA Tournament kicks into gear with a full slate of games on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. For bettors, March Madness is a busy time of the year with the 68-team tournament taking over the sports world for the next few weeks. And if a bettor approaches these games in the right manner, the NCAA Tournament can be a great way to make a profit on college basketball. Let's take a closer look at the 2016 NCAA Tournament and figure out the best way to wager on the event. All odds come from Bovada.

March Madness Top Expert Bracket Picks for Each Region
by Trevor Whenham - 3/14/2016

A monkey can fill out an NCAA Tournament bracket - and some show this week will probably have one do just that. In order to help you out in your tournament preparations, though, I am going to go just a little further than that and provide a bit of the reasoning to go along with the selections.

NCAA Tournament Handicapping: Best Value Bets in 2016
by Trevor Whenham - 3/14/2016

I know a lot of you are probably mostly focused on your brackets right now as the tournament nears. There are good profits to pursue on the betting side of things, though - and they are easier to earn than winning a big bracket pool is. Successful long-term betting is obviously all about value, so it only makes sense that we would focus on finding the games in the first round of the NCAA Tournament that look like the best value bets on the board.

March Madness Seeds vs. National Championship Futures Odds
by Chris Vasile - 3/14/2016

There are several methods to filling out your March Madness brackets for this year's NCAA Tournament. Whether you go on instinct alone, spend hours doing your own research, or listen to the many "expert" talking heads on television, you will never have a perfect bracket.

March Madness Betting Trends: Handicapping the No. 1 Seeds
by Chris Vasile - 3/14/2016

Conference tournaments have come and gone, and to say the top-ranked seeds got their asses kicked would be an understatement. Twenty-one top-ranked seeds heading into their conference tournaments were upended and left scratching their heads. For the teams that did win the regular-season and conference tournament, it can be both a blessing and curse.

Help Filling Out NCAA Tournament Brackets: Sweet 16 Surprises
by Trevor Whenham - 3/14/2016

If everything went according to expectations in the NCAA Tournament then the Sweet 16 would be made of four No.1 seeds, four No.2s and four each of three and four seeds. That's the plan, but of course it never works out that way. Some years it's close. Other years the Sweet 16 is total chaos. Most years we see at least one team from the bottom quarter of the bracket make it through to the second weekend - and often more than that.

2016 March Madness Bracket Picks: Vulnerable High Seeds
by Trevor Whenham - 3/14/2016

As we stare at the newly minted NCAA Tournament bracket, there are some things that stand out immediately. We know that teams seeded in the top four in their region should, all things being equal, survive at least until the Sweet 16. The top two seeds should go further. There are a few high seeds, though, that don't seem quite good enough to make it that far - or at least not good enough to assume that they will. They are vulnerable teams that wouldn't be surprising early exits. Here are my March Madness bracket picks for five vulnerable higher seeds:

March Madness Bracket Help: 5 vs. 12 Seed Upsets
by Trevor Whenham - 3/14/2016

If you have paid any attention to the NCAA Tournament at all over the years then you know that the 5 vs. 12 line on the brackets is a fruitful one - both in terms of potential upsets and nice underdog payouts. Since the team expanded to the 64-team format in 1985 there have been 124 of these matchups. The underdog No. 12 seeds have a pretty solid 44-80 record in those games - upsets come at a 35.5 percent rate.

2016 NCAA Tournament Bracket Picks: Dangerous Lower Seeds
by Trevor Whenham - 3/14/2016

There are so many things that are great about the NCAA Tournament. Chief among them, perhaps, is the inevitable upsets that make the first round both so haywire and so exciting. Those upsets are so much fun to watch, and they can also be very profitable for bettors who correctly pick them out, too. Of course, it's not like they are easy to spot. All you can really do is make a series of educated guesses and hope for the best. Here are four lower seeds that have a chance to exceed expectations - in the case of double-digit seeds those expectations are to lose their first game and go home.

2016 NIT Bracket Picks and Expert Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 3/14/2016

The NIT is kind of like Reno in my mind. Being in Reno is nice enough - you are in Nevada, you can gamble, there is lots of stuff to do, and it's generally a fun place. There is almost no one, though, who can honestly say that they would choose to spend real time in Reno if they could be in Las Vegas instead. Similarly, the NIT is postseason ball, and there is some prestige in winning it, but any team in existence would give up being a No. 1 seed in the NIT to be a No. 12 in the Big Dance - and they wouldn't even have to think about it.

All-Sports Expert Betting Tips to Help Win Cash this Week
by Dave Schwab - 3/14/2016

The annual NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament is one of the most heavily-bet sporting events of the year with everything from wagering on the individual games, playing any number of team and player props to filling out the tournament bracket in hopes of striking it rich. While multi- millions of dollars will be wagered over the next few weeks, there will be far more bets lost than won.

March Madness Money Management Tips and Expert Betting Advice
by Trevor Whenham - 3/10/2016

For a lot of people, the NCAA Tournament is all about filling out brackets and playing pools. Bettors know, though, that the real fun and profit in March is to be had not in playing pools but in betting on the tournament itself. There is a ton of games in a short time, and smart bettors have the opportunity to cash in big time. In order to enjoy the windfall, though, you need one big thing beyond just strong handicapping - you need to have strong March Madness money management.

Xavier Musketeers Odds to Win the 2016 NCAA Tournament with Picks and Predictions
by George Monroy - 3/10/2016

The Xavier Musketeers have built a name for themselves as bracket-buster and one of the mid-major conference teams to keep an eye on every year when March Madness comes around. The team has spent so much time being an underdog over the last 20-something years, that viewing Xavier as the No. 5-ranked team in the nation and a potential national title contender might seem out of place. Yet for all the success the Musketeers have seen, the program only has one Elite Eight and no Final Four appearances in the school's history.

Virginia Cavaliers Odds to Win the 2016 NCAA Tournament with Picks and Predictions
by George Monroy - 3/10/2016

The Virginia Cavaliers ended the 2016 regular season with a No. 4 ranking in the AP Top 25 poll and with a decent shot at grabbing a top seed in the NCAA Tournament. The team must first navigate a tough ACC Tournament bracket and a potential showdown with No. 7 North Carolina, if both teams advance into the weekend.

How to Run a March Madness Brackets Pool
by Chris Vasile - 3/10/2016

No word in the English language sees more of a massive spike in use around mid-February like "Bracketology." This 12-letter, five-syllable word enters the vocabulary of all genders and races and takes over mainstream sports media until Championship Monday. Then, much like Villanova's title aspirations, it disappears without a trace.