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College Basketball Handicapping: Predicting the Line on Marquee Matchups
by Aaron Smith - 12/30/2012

Most of the sports world is paying attention to college football right now, but bettors looking for value should keep an eye on college basketball as the New Year nears. The oddsmakers tend to spend a little less time on these college hoops matchups this time of the season, so there is always that chance of finding some soft lines.
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UNLV at North Carolina Picks and College Basketball Betting Odds
by Alan Matthews - 12/28/2012

It’s quite a rarity in Saturday afternoon’s game between No. 20 UNLV and North Carolina: It’s only the fifth time the Tar Heels’ 179 nonconference games at the Smith Center that the opposition is ranked and UNC isn’t. Carolina is 2-2 in those matchups, with the last such happening on Dec. 10, 2010, with the Heels beating No. 10 Kentucky, 75-73. As the school Web site points out, expect a great game Saturday as three of those previous four occurrences have been decided in the final 20 seconds.
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College Basketball Picks: New Mexico vs. Cincinnati Odds and Predictions
by Dave Schwab - 12/26/2012

The New Mexico Lobos will look to get back to their winning ways when they square off against the undefeated Cincinnati Bearcats this Thursday night at Fifth Third Arena. The game is set to tip off at 9 p.m. (ET) and it will be broadcast nationally on ESPN2. The Lobos cracked the AP’s Top 25 with an impressive 12-0 straight up start but quickly retreated from the latest rankings after an ugly 70-65 loss to South Dakota State as 15-point favorites at home this past Saturday.
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Looking Back at the Week in College Basketball Betting
by Trevor Whenham - 12/21/2012

It’s time for the weekly look back at what has happened in the world of college basketball, the impact it has had on bettors, and what we might expect going forward in our endless search for college basketball betting value:
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College Basketball Handicapping: Predicting the Line on Marquee Matchups
by Aaron Smith - 12/18/2012

Final exams week is always one of the least exciting for bettors in college basketball. During the week last week the games were few and far between. The games that were on the schedule were top teams against cupcakes. The 30- and 40-point blowouts were all over the place. Thankfully, last Saturday brought a couple of great games. Butler’s historic upset of No. 1 Indiana might have been the best game of the year thus far. Arizona’s last-minute comeback to beat Florida was an exciting one for those who were able to stay up and watch.
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College Basketball Picks: Stanford at NC State Odds and Predictions
by Dave Schwab - 12/17/2012

The Cardinal may be poised to break into the Top 25 with a few more quality wins after posting a 7-3 straight up record in their first 10 games. In their only other matchup this season against a ranked team, they lost to then-No.13 Missouri 78-70 as 2.5-point underdogs on Nov.22. Stanford is 4-4-1 against the spread overall and 2-1-1 ATS in road and neutral-site games.
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College Basketball Picks: Florida at Arizona Odds and Betting Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 12/14/2012

Saturday marks the end of “Finals Week” across the college basketball landscape. The national schedule has been reduced throughout most of the week due, in large part, to players (remember: they have to hold up their end of the whole student-athlete charade) having to take final exams at their respective institutes of higher education.
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Looking Back at the Week in College Basketball Betting
by Trevor Whenham - 12/14/2012

As we head into another exciting weekend of action, it’s time for our weekly look back at the highs and lows of the last week of the college basketball season from a betting perspective, From the hundreds of games that were played in the last week, here are eight situations most worth mentioning:
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College Basketball Handicapping: Kentucky Struggles
by Trevor Whenham - 12/14/2012

If you trusted what the media had to say you would think that the sky was falling in Lexington, Kentucky. The Wildcats have lost three games this year. There is no real shame in losing to Duke, but Notre Dame isn’t a great loss, and the Baylor loss is just plain bad at this point. The team had the top recruiting class in the country and was ranked third heading into the season, so they are not supposed to be just 6-3 and unranked in mid-December.
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Handicapping the Undefeated College Basketball Teams
by Trevor Whenham - 12/12/2012

The college basketball season seems like it just begun, but we are already almost a third of the way through the season — and not far from the start of the conference season. Every team starts the season undefeated, but already we are down to just 14 teams that have yet to lose. The prospect of an undefeated team entering the NCAA Tournament is enticing every year. So, can it happen this year? Here’s a look at each unbeaten team, what they have accomplished, and when (or if) they are likely to lose:
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College Basketball Handicapping: Predicting the Line on Marquee Matchups
by Aaron Smith - 12/11/2012

Entering this week, the Indiana Hoosiers are still at the top of the college basketball rankings. There are 10 remaining unbeaten teams in the Top 25. Duke has beaten three teams that were ranked in the Top 4 when they played them. The Illinois Fighting Illini served notice in Maui earlier this year, and then they put a hurting on Gonzaga in Spokane last weekend. It looks like we better keep an eye on the Fighting Illini moving forward.
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College Basketball Handicapping: Predicting the Line on Marquee Matchups
by Aaron Smith - 12/3/2012

Last week was a great week of early-season college basketball. The Big Ten/ACC Challenge ended in a 6-6 tie, and there was some terrific action in those 12 games. Duke found a way to beat another highly-ranked opponent and stay unbeaten. Maryland is starting to make some real noise with some impressive performances early in the season as well. Indiana continues to show they are worthy of their No. 1 spot in the rankings. Madison Square Garden will host the Jimmy V Classic on Tuesday of this week, and Saturday’s schedule will be full of exciting games as usual.
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Looking Back at the Week in College Basketball Betting
by Trevor Whenham - 11/29/2012

It’s time to start a new weekly tradition — a weekly look back at the highs and lows of the week in college basketball betting. As the season goes on we’ll hit on the games that made people feel like geniuses, and those that were frustrating enough to make them consider giving up sports betting entirely. To start with, here are seven teams that have stood out for their exploits this past week:
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College Basketball Handicapping: Predicting the Line on Marquee Matchups
by Aaron Smith - 11/27/2012

I hope everyone has recovered from the huge Thanksgiving meals. It’s always a great time of the year, and basketball kicks off in a big way during this late-November period. Indiana still sits at the top of the new Top 25 polls, but Duke is now a strong second. The Blue Devils have wins over Kentucky and Louisville early in the season, and it looks like they are primed for a big season. With Michigan and Ohio State sitting at spots three and four, the Big Ten Conference has three of the top four teams in the nation.
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College Basketball Picks: North Carolina at Indiana Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 11/26/2012

Probably the best event before conference play begins in college basketball arrives on Tuesday and Wednesday this week with the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. The made-for-ESPN Challenge has been a huge success so far, and the shifting landscape might show the Big Ten has surpassed the ACC in basketball. While the ACC won the first 10 Challenges, the Big Ten won 8-4 last year, and four of those wins came on the road. It was the Big Ten’s third straight Commissioner’s Cup.
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College Basketball Handicapping: Early Betting Surprises
by Trevor Whenham - 11/21/2012

The college basketball season is very young, but already there are teams that have been surprising for bettors — either because of their strength or their unexpected weakness. Here are eight teams that have been a betting surprise for some reason so far:
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College Basketball Handicapping: Most Volatile Ranked Teams
by Trevor Whenham - 11/21/2012

Sometimes in college sports there are teams that come into the season highly-ranked, and you have little doubt that they will remain highly-ranked throughout the season. More often, though, teams are highly-ranked because of their potential, but the real chance exists that they could fail to meet expectations and could fall out of the rankings entirely. College football this year provided a perfect example — USC came into the season ranked first overall, and the Trojans now sit with their season in shambles at 7-4.
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College Basketball Handicapping: Predicting the Line on Marquee Matchups
by Aaron Smith - 11/20/2012

The college basketball season has been underway for about 10 days, but it feels like the holiday tournaments this week mark the time when the nation as a whole starts paying attention. College football’s regular season is winding down, and the oddsmakers will certainly start spending more time on college hoops numbers as the season moves along. In this weekly column, we’ll be taking a look at the biggest games of the week and how they may play out.
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Handicapping the College Basketball Preseason Tournaments
by Trevor Whenham - 11/16/2012

One of the many great parts of the college basketball season is the preseason tournaments we are treated to around Thanksgiving. There are a lot, and some are duds, but the best of the tournaments deliver unconventional matchups and thrilling action. It’s a good early test of how teams stack up, and how they can handle pressure.
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College Basketball Betting: Off-the-Radar Value Teams
by Trevor Whenham - 11/14/2012

The college basketball season is, happily, underway. There are always lots of teams that get plenty of attention from the media, but there are so many teams that good teams can easily slip under the radar and get less attention from the public than they deserve. Here are six teams that stand out to me because they have the potential to make some noise and exceed early expectations.
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College Basketball Conference Futures Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 11/12/2012

The college basketball season tipped off on Friday, but conference play around the country won’t begin until the end of December or early in the New Year. Realistically, winning your conference is nice but doesn’t matter much in the grand scheme of things to the top teams unless it earns you a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. It can mean everything for NCAA bubble teams to get that automatic bid.
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2012-13 Mountain West Conference Basketball Predictions and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 11/2/2012

The 2011-12 season was a banner year for the Mountain West. A lot of bobbleheads assumed that this league – which is really the top tier of the “mid-major” leagues, to the point where they really blur the line between “major” and “mid-major” conference – was going to suffer after losing Utah and BYU.
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2012-13 Atlantic 10 Conference Basketball Predictions and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 11/2/2012

If you thought the Big East was gargantuan, you should check out the Atlantic 10. This mega-mid-major conference welcomes in Butler and VCU this season to pump the total number of teams in the league up to 16. There will be some teams taking their ball and moving along next season. But for this year the Atlantic 10 is the biggest league in the country.
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2012-13 MAC Basketball Predictions and Betting Odds
by Aaron Smith - 11/2/2012

The Mid-American Conference isn’t among the biggest of names in college basketball, but those who follow the sport closely know that there are some quality teams that come out of this conference. Last year was a perfect example; the Ohio Bobcats advanced to the Sweet 16 before falling in overtime in a heartbreaking loss to North Carolina. The Bobcats were only seconds away from an Elite Eight berth.
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2012-13 Big East Basketball Odds and Betting Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 10/25/2012

Rest in peace, Big East. This is the final season of the Big East as we know it. Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Notre Dame are defecting to the ACC. Connecticut is entering the post-Calhoun era amidst a cloud of uncertainty and a postseason ban. And with several bizarre, football-driven realignment plans heading down the pipe it is clear that the years of The Beast being the dominating college basketball conference in the nation are coming to a close.
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2012-13 Big Ten Basketball Odds and Betting Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 10/23/2012

The Big Ten experienced a revival last season, with peak performance and parity resulting in a solid season for the boys in the Great Lakes region. Ohio State earned a trip to the Final Four, and the league finished with five teams ranked in the Top 16 in the final Associated Press poll of the 2011-12 season.
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2012-13 SEC Basketball Odds and Betting Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 10/23/2012

SEC basketball was collateral damage in the big BCS college football shakeup of 2011. Now comprised of a whopping 14 teams, the SEC is a bloated mess of college hoops pretenders. At one time this league had some of the best basketball in the nation. But right now it is a dominating Kentucky team, a couple of second-rate programs, and a host of third- and fourth-rate schools simply providing their fan base a distraction between kickoffs.
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College Basketball Handicapping: Teams With Great Betting Value
by Trevor Whenham - 10/23/2012

Midnight Madness has come and gone, so the college basketball season is just around the corner. I can’t wait. College basketball is a brilliant game to watch and an even better one to bet on. There are so many teams and so many games that value is out there to be found for those willing to do the work to find it.
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2012-13 Pac-12 Basketball Odds and Betting Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 10/18/2012

The Pac-12 was easily the most underrated conference in college basketball last season. And if I were a player in this venerable league, I’d be getting pretty pissed off about the second-class status that this conference has been shackled with over the past few seasons.
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2012-13 Big 12 Basketball Odds and Betting Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 10/18/2012

The math doesn’t add up in Big 12 basketball. Let’s ignore the fact that there are only 10 teams in the Big 12. And we’ll overlook the fact that the conference reshuffling that sucked Missouri and Texas A&M into the SEC cost college basketball 1) one of the best rivalries in the sport (Kansas-Missouri) and 2) one of the most efficient and profitable teams in college basketball betting, Texas A&M.
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2012-13 ACC Basketball Odds and Betting Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 10/16/2012

I said last year that the ACC sucked. And it did. Oh, it did. The ACC sent just five teams to the NCAA Tournament, with North Carolina State barely nudging their way into the Field of 68. In terms of college basketball betting, only five of the 12 teams in the league finished with profitable season for their backers. The most profitable team in the league was N.C. State, earning bettors a paltry +260 for the year. That was the lowest the total for best bet of any conference in the country.
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College Basketball: 2012 Atlantic 10 Tournament Predictions and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 3/7/2012

With as much depth and talent as any mid-major league in the country the Atlantic 10 Tournament should be one of the most competitive and hard-fought March Madness brackets played this weekend. With as many as eight teams with a realistic chance to win the A-10 tournament a lot of teams on the bubble should be watching this one closely this week and hoping that a team from this league doesn’t steal a bid.
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College Basketball: 2012 Big Ten Tournament Predictions and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 3/6/2012

Can Ohio State or Michigan State still work their way to a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament? Can Michigan or Indiana continue their ascents and become a surprise winner of the Big Ten? Will Northwestern be able to play its way into the Big Dance for the first time ever?
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College Basketball: 2012 Big 12 Tournament Predictions and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 3/6/2012

The Big 12 Tournament begins Wednesday, March 7, and is being held at the Sprint Center in Kansas City. The conference has altered its format a bit this season with the top six teams in the regular season standings receiving a bye. No. 1 seed Kansas and No. 2 seed Missouri will face the winners of the respective first-round games between the bottom four teams in the league.
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College Basketball: 2012 ACC Tournament Predictions and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 3/6/2012

It’s a pretty safe bet that either Duke or North Carolina is going to win the ACC Tournament. Not only are these two of the Top 10 teams in the country but also the Blue Devils and Tar Heels have cut down the nets in this tourney in 15 of the last 16 years. That’s the definition of domination. And judging by the feeble state of the rest of this conference I don’t see anyone else in this field that can threaten the top dogs.
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College Basketball Handicapping: Ranking Conference Tournaments
by Trevor Whenham - 3/6/2012

March is here, and I couldn’t be more excited. Starting this week with the conference tournaments we are entering into one of the most exciting months of the sports calendar. This is one of the best times of the year to be a sports bettor. Conference tournaments don’t get quite the attention that the main event does starting next week. However, they typically offer no shortage of drama, excitement, and the potential for profit.
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College Hoops Handicapping Tips for Betting on Conference Tournaments
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 3/6/2012

No two college basketball conference tournaments are exactly alike. From seeding, to timing, to byes and double byes, campus locations and neutral sites, conference tournaments are not created equally. Here are a few tips to keep in mind when handicapping college hoops conference tournaments.
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2012 NCAA Tournament Predictions: Teams That Could Make Run
by Trevor Whenham - 3/6/2012

Connecticut’s postseason run last year is already the thing of legend, and that legend will only grow as time passes. Coming into the Big East tournament they were far from a remarkable team. They were seeded ninth in their conference tournament, and their 21-9 regular season record was solid but lacking a lot of real pizzazz outside of their win of the Maui Invitational.
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College Basketball: 2012 Pac-12 Tournament Predictions and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 3/5/2012

Welcome to the most underrated conference in the country. For the last two months the national bobblehead media has been condescending and dismissive in their analysis of the Pac-12. No, they didn’t have a great collective nonconference resume. And the metrics have this league rated as the worst BCS basketball conference of the last decade. However, if you’ve actually been watching the basketball being played out west you know that there are some diamonds in the rough playing good ball in this league.
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College Basketball: 2012 Mountain West Tournament Predictions and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 3/5/2012

Vegas baby. The Mountain West Conference Tournament begins Wednesday, March 7, and is being held in Las Vegas. This tournament is always one of the fiercest in the nation and generally features the best crop of mid-major teams in the country. This year is no exception.
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College Basketball: 2012 SEC Tournament Predictions and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 3/5/2012

Things are a little different in the SEC this year. In previous years the SEC had seeded its teams 1-6 based on their respective divisional finishes with the top two teams in each division, East and West, receiving a bye. However, there had always been grumbling in the SEC East – the division with more traditional basketball powers – that this was unfair. Teams with better conference records in the East were being forced to play an extra game while division winners with weaker teams and worse records were able to enjoy a bye.
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College Basketball: 2012 Big East Tournament Predictions and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 3/5/2012

Well, I suppose this is it for the Big East. Because of the cesspool that is college football, the Big East, as we have known it for nearly three decades, will be no more. West Virginia’s departure for the Big 12 next season is already confirmed. Syracuse and Pittsburgh are both defecting to the ACC, but their departure date is undetermined. That means that this may be the final chance for that trio to claim a conference title on one of the biggest stages in college basketball.
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College Basketball Betting: Hot or Not Handicapping Report
by Dave Schwab - 3/5/2012

It is Championship Week in men’s college basketball as this week’s conference tournaments will set the stage for Selection Sunday and the final 68-team field for this season’s NCAA Tournament. The six majors kick things off this Tuesday with first-round action in the Big East and the week wraps up with Sunday’s finals in the ACC, Big Ten, and the SEC.
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College Basketball Picks: North Carolina at Duke Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/2/2012

It’s Carolina-Duke. What more is there to say as college basketball’s regular season comes to a close this weekend? Actually, there’s plenty to say about the sport’s best rivalry. It’s the 233rd time overall the two have met and 44th that the Tobacco Road bluebloods will play as Top-10 foes – and second time this season. And all that’s on the line Saturday night in Durham is the outright ACC regular-season championship, the No. 1 seed that goes with it in next week’s conference tournament and almost assuredly a top seed in the NCAA Tournament barring an early flameout in the conference tourney by Saturday’s winner.
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2012 College Basketball Predictions: CAA Tournament Betting Picks
by Darin Zank - 2/29/2012

The Colonial Athletic Association doesn't usually get a lot of ink as it plays in the shadow of some of the major conferences out East. But they've been playing some pretty good ball in the defensive-minded CAA in recent seasons, sending two teams to the Final Four the last five years. And hey, that's more than the Big 12 has sent over that span.
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Beyond the Top 25 – A College Hoops Weekly
by Taylor Jordan – Strike Point Sports - 2/28/2012

It’s more or less the final weekend in the regular season. You’ll see some of the mid-major leagues begin their conference tournaments in the next week or so, and this last week in February pretty much wraps up the schedule in terms of a full load of games.
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College Basketball: 2012 Missouri Valley Tournament Odds and Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 2/27/2012

The Missouri Valley Conference Tournament is the first of the recognizable conference tournaments to be played each season. It marks the beginning of March Madness and is an appetizer for the upcoming month of knockout games, buzzer beaters, stunning upsets, and thrilling college basketball betting moments and situations.
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College Basketball Betting: Hot or Not Handicapping Report
by Dave Schwab - 2/27/2012

This is the final week of the NCAA men’s basketball regular season and one last chance for the top teams in the nation to pad their overall resume before the start of next week’s conference tournaments. Selection Sunday for this year’s NCAA Tournament is less than two weeks away and while the overall picture for this season’s 68-team field is fairly clear, a lot can happen between now and then.
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College Basketball Coach of the Year Odds and Prediction
by Alan Matthews - 2/23/2012

With the college basketball regular season in its final days, the books are starting to roll out props for major postseason awards. I looked at the National Player of the Year here at Doc’s a few weeks ago (recommended Kentucky’s Anthony Davis), so today let’s look at the Coach of the Year odds at Bovada. I am presuming this is for the AP award, which usually is announced at the Final Four.
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College Basketball Handicapping: Teams with NCAA Tournament Betting Value
by Trevor Whenham - 2/21/2012

We are in the home stretch of the college basketball season. Soon, all eyes will be on the postseason, and people who haven’t been paying attention to the sport all year will suddenly be betting on it heavily. As betting volume increases it can be hard to find value on the elite squads in the country. It can be helpful, then, to have an idea of what teams in the next level are rounding into top form and could be serious contenders to win several games in March.
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Beyond the Top 25 – A College Hoops Weekly
by Taylor Jordan – Strike Point Sports - 2/21/2012

With BracketBuster Saturday playing out and establishing the “who’s who” of mid-majors, a lot of the Top 25 movement came this week in the form of the little guys. Murray State did well to atone for its lone OVC loss by blasting St. Mary’s in the marquee match-up this past weekend. They seem to have solidified their position as a Top 25 (and Field of 68) stalwart.
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College Basketball Betting: Hot or Not Handicapping Report
by Dave Schwab - 2/20/2012

The final few weeks of the regular season college basketball schedule is upon us with the madness of March’s NCAA Tournament a little over a month away. While the top teams in the country continue to jockey for a favorable seed in the 68-team field, a couple of schools on the bubble are simply trying to earn an invitation to the Big Dance.
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How RPI Plays Into College Basketball Handicapping
by Trevor Whenham - 2/16/2012

RPI is something you hear about a lot in college basketball. That talk intensifies as the postseason draws near. Most college basketball fans and bettors — even casual ones — have heard of RPI. They may even have a vague sense of what it is. Few people, though, really understand what it is and why it is significant. That’s where we come in.
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College Basketball Handicapping: Bracket Buster Trends and Betting Preview
by Robert Ferringo - 2/16/2012

As a fan, this is a chance to see the game in pure form. I mean, what says, “College Basketball Perfection” like Presbyterian vs. Jacksonville State or Western Michigan vs. North Dakota State matchup. And the dozens of manufactured storylines that go into this weekend actually may do more to denigrate and condescend to mid-major teams than they do to actually give them a forum to pimp their wares.
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2012 College Basketball: NCAA Tournament Futures Betting Odds
by Darin Zank - 2/15/2012

We've come to the stage in the sports betting season where college basketball now gets it's time in the spotlight. And as the din of the upcoming March Madness begins to grow, now might be a good time to size up the field for the upcoming NCAA Tournament and maybe get a read on some decent championship prices.
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Beyond the Top 25 – A College Hoops Weekly
by Taylor Jordan – Strike Point Sports - 2/14/2012

I say “enough” of the big-boy hierarchy that dominates college basketball. Well, at least for this week. Saturday marks another edition of Bracket Buster weekend. This week’s ‘Beyond the Top 25’ is going to be simple: we are spotlighting the best of mid-majors outside the national polls.
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College Basketball Betting: Hot or Not Handicapping Report
by Dave Schwab - 2/13/2012

The 2011-12 college basketball schedule enters the second half of February with the madness of March lurking right around the corner. The top teams in the country continue to try and build an overall resume that is worthy of a top seed in this year’s NCAA Tournament, while a few Cinderella’s are sharpening their form for a long run in the big dance.
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College Basketball Handicapping: Any Betting Value on Murray State After Loss?
by Trevor Whenham - 2/10/2012

I have been wanting to write about Murray State for quite a while now. Of course, I wanted to write a different article than I will be writing now. Before Thursday night the Racers were a huge story. They had won 23 games in a row, were ranked as high as No. 7 in the country, and seemed to have a very good shot at ending the season undefeated.
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College Basketball Player of the Year Updated Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 2/9/2012

Back on Nov. 8 here at Doc’s, my predictions story for the 2011-12 NCAA Basketball Player of the Year was unveiled. It’s time to do a revisit of this story as there is only about a month left in the regular season and Bovada has re-posted updated odds on this college basketball prop.
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Beyond the Top 25 – A College Hoops Weekly
by Taylor Jordan – Strike Point Sports - 2/8/2012

It’s the first full week of February, and when talking college basketball that means one thing for me: Bracket Buster Saturday. For my enjoyment, this one particular weekend in mid-February has arguably the best offerings in college basketball (pre-March Madness, of course). You get a handful of the best mid-major on mid-major matchups, while still getting your fix of top matchups from all the big leagues around the country.
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College Basketball Picks: Duke at North Carolina Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 2/7/2012

I’m here with a special Wednesday NCAA basketball game preview because the greatest rivalry in college basketball, and perhaps in all of sports, is renewed – with as much hype as you would expect from Blue Devils homer network ESPN – when No. 9 Duke visits No. 5 North Carolina in a key ACC game.
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