Our pro gamblers and expert handicappers, TJ Rives and guests Jeff Nadu and Ian Cameron, have the college basketball predictions you’ll want to listen to wisely bet on who will win tonight’s March Madness games.
When it comes to getting the college basketball odds, and the college basketball picks you need and can count on to make your best March Madness bets.
To understand March Madness odds, the first thing you need to get is that this is the annual championship tournament played for NCAA college basketball. Every single year in March (hence the moniker “March Madness”), 68 of the top teams in college basketball qualify to enter into a winner-take-all tournament that decides the national champion.
The competition goes down to 64 after four play-in games, leaving four sections of 16 teams, seeded 1 through 16 by a voting committee and based on each team’s regular-season and conference tournament results.
The number 1 seed plays the number 16 seed; the 2-seed plays the 15-seed, the 3-seed plays the 14-seed, and so on.
If a team loses, they’re out of the tournament. If they win, that team goes on to the next round, with the goal of winning six consecutive games to grab the NCAA championship.
The college basketball odds to win the championship (the March Madness odds) are decided by the sportsbook industry’s biggest oddsmakers. Then by online sportsbooks – the odds at the books suggest a certain probability of any given team taking the entire tournament.
As a player betting on March Madness, your job is to seek out the best March Madness odds of the season and take action on those.