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 […]
Bad news for sports bettors: College football’s bowl season has reached its conclusion, minus next week’s national-title clash of No. 1 Alabama and No. 3 Georgia. Good news for sports bettors: College basketball’s regular season has made the glorious calendar turn to 2022, meaning the vast majority of remaining games will be conference clashes. Tuesday’s […]
Bad news for sports bettors: College football’s bowl season has reached its conclusion, minus next week’s national-title clash of No. 1 Alabama and No. 3 Georgia. Good news for sports bettors: College basketball’s regular season has made the glorious calendar turn to 2022, indicating the vast majority of games moving forward will come from inside […]
Bad news for sports bettors: College football’s regular season has come to a close. Good news for sports bettors: College basketball’s regular season is heating up fast, with many of the power conferences getting a jump-start on league action in December. Wednesday’s marquee matchup is a high-profile SEC clash between two Elite Eight contenders — a […]
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 […]
Bad news for sports bettors: College football’s regular season has come to a close. Good news for sports bettors: College basketball’s regular season is heating up fast, with the holiday school break generating a slew of intriguing intersectional matchups. Once such matchup takes place Wednesday between two ranked teams that haven’t shared the same court since […]
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), […]
Saturday college basketball odds are part of a busy sports betting day. Perhaps the most compelling game is one that wasn’t on the original schedule. The CBS Sports Classic initially featured Ohio State-Kentucky and North Carolina-UCLA at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. But COVID reared up, and Ohio State and UCLA had to bow out. […]
Bad news for sports bettors: College football’s regular season has come to a close. Good news for sports bettors: College basketball’s regular season is heating up fast, with several conferences getting a jump-start on league play this month. On Friday, a pair of perimeter-oriented teams make their Big East debuts, and Props.com breaks down the […]
Last year, the Baylor Bears captured their first NCAA men’s basketball championship, and they did it by handing No. 1 overall seed Gonzaga its first loss of the season. Will the Bears become the second team in more than a quarter century to win back-to-back titles? If you believe the college basketball national championship odds […]
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 […]
Bad news for sports bettors: College football’s regular season has come to a close. Good news for sports bettors: College basketball’s regular season is heating up fast, with several power conferences getting a jump-start on league play this month. Going forward, Props.com will profile one marquee game every Monday through Thursday, examining that matchup from […]