The NCAA Tournament opens on Thursday. After mining the betting card, I like Nevada to beat Florida at 6:50 p.m. ET on TNT and Baylor and Syracuse to score more than most people expect at 9:57 p.m. ET on truTV. 

This is the fourth and final game of Day-1 action in the South Region taking place at the XL Center in Hartford, CT. Purdue is one of my Cinderella teams that can make a big run to the Final Four and has the potential and talent to win the Championship.

Bradley will enter March Madness as the No. 15 seed in the East and will take on No. 2 Michigan State. Let’s break this one down and determine whether the Braves have a chance to cover the number over the Spartans.

Wofford has everyone’s attention entering the NCAA Tournament, and the Terriers are favored on the NCAA odds for Thursday’s tilt against Seton Hall in Jacksonville.

South Region First Round takes place at the SAP Center in San Jose, CA with Kansas State vs UC Irvine playing on Friday. 

The St. Louis Billikens are the Atlantic 10 champs after defeating St. Bonaventure in a defensive battle. But they will be sorely tested when they step up in class to meet the Hokies of Virginia Tech on Friday.

Having pulled off a couple of 1st-round upsets in the past, Georgia State is getting 12 points on the NCAA odds board in Friday’s matchup with Houston.

There are upsets waiting to happen, but you need to look for these clues in the spreads

There are those that feel Michigan caught a break being shipped out to the West Regional. They can prove their detractors wrong starting with a Thursday blowout win.

South Region First Round taking place at the Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, SCMississippi favored by 2-points and a total line of 142.5-points

The 7 vs. 10 matchups are always worth a look to sports bettors and this one out West definitely is. We have one underachiever against an opponent you never know what you will get.

Yale enters the Big Dance as the Ivy league champs but will be sorely tested against the LSU Tigers, smarting after a quarterfinal loss to Florida in the SEC tournament.

South Region First Round taking place at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, OH. Cincinnati favored by 3.5-points and a total line of 137.5-points

Who will you bet on for your basketball picks during March Madness? We set out a process of elimination in order to narrow the field down to some choice teams to spot.

Men’s Division I college basketball is the hardest sport to consistently handicap, with 347 teams to try to make sense of and the nature of the game itself, with big point swings and many upsets.