Let’s start here: If you’re looking for advice on how to build a perfect NCAA Tournament bracket, you’ve come to the wrong place. With perfection odds in the neighborhood of 1 in 9.2 quintillion, you have a greater mathematical chance of being struck by lightning five times (hat tip, old Roy Sullivan) than you do…
Thursday nights belong to college basketball once again. And the timing couldn’t be better for college basketball betting enthusiasts, as the schedule delivers yet another clash of Top 25 powers. This one involves a couple of Big Ten rivals who will hook up for the second time in a month. Props.com breaks down the college…
Before looking ahead to this year’s Pac-12 Conference betting odds, let’s take a look backward: Last year, four Pac-12 schools reached the regional semifinal round of the NCAA Tournament (USC, UCLA, Oregon, Oregon State). A week later, UCLA came agonizingly close to forcing a second overtime against No. 1 Gonzaga in the Final Four ……
The Big 12 Conference currently boasts the defending national champion (Baylor); the top-ranked team in this week’s Associated Press poll (also Baylor); the No. 2 school in all-time victories (Kansas); the nation’s most improbable turnaround story (Iowa State); and six plausible candidates for the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16. And yet when talking heads debate which…
The reconstituted Big East likely will never recapture the dominance of 1985, when three teams — Villanova, Georgetown, and St. John’s — reached the Final Four. Nor is it likely to ever duplicate the 2010-11 campaign, when the league shoehorned 11 teams into the NCAA Tournament (including national champion Connecticut). However, the 11-team league is…
Is the SEC, from top to bottom, the best conference in college basketball this season? If you use national rankings as your barometer, the answer would appear to be “yes” — at least at the moment. This week, five SEC schools appear in The Associated Press Top 20 — Alabama (10th), Auburn (12th), LSU (17th),…
If you judge a conference by its number of NCAA Tournament appearances, it’s pretty easy to make a case for the ACC being the best league in the land. Over the past four seasons (2017-19, 2021), the ACC has garnered 32 bids to the Big Dance — four more than the Big Ten over the…
Big Ten basketball will return to its pre-pandemic format of 20 conference games per member this season, a marathon slate that will surely separate the lot of contenders, pretenders, and cellar-dwellers by the time March rolls around. And if recent history tells us anything, the Big Ten conference betting market figures to be flooded with…
Looking for unique ways to get involved in the NFL betting market? You’ve come to the right place. Recently, we chronicled the Arizona Cardinals’ odds of potentially going 17-0, along with the rebuilding Detroit Lions’ prospects of finishing 0-17. Well, 24 hours after examining the Cardinals’ chance of going undefeated, Arizona went out and suffered its…
The 2.0 version of the 2021 College Football Playoff rankings have been released, and per usual, the playoff committee’s rankings don’t exactly align with the perceptions of oddsmakers, let alone those who vote in the Associated Press Top 25 poll. With a full month to go before “Selection Sunday” on Dec. 5, so much can…
The AFC North is one of only two NFL divisions (along with the AFC West) to have every team at .500 or better heading into NFL Week 9. Does that mean the AFC North is completely up for grabs as the NFL’s first 18-week/17-game season reaches its midpoint? According to oddsmakers, the answer is “Yes” —…
Each week, Props.com highlights the handful of schools that oddsmakers believe have the best College Football Playoff odds — with the Orange and Cotton bowls hosting the semifinals on Dec. 31. While each contender’s ranking in the Associated Press Top 25 poll garners mention here, this exercise is all about chronicling where these teams currently…
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