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NORTHERN KENTUCKY -1.5 Oakland
My top model has North Kentucky covering 70 percent. Haslam has Northern Kentucky as about 3.5 favorite. MasseyRatings has NKU winning by three, so slight edge. EDJS has NKU covering the two 52 percent of times, but Oakland just 44 with the rest pushes. At 1.5 even better.
Bovada has posted odds to get an automatic bid to the Big Dance 2021. FSU edges out Virginia as the favorites. Will Duke make a miracle run? They are 16-1. GA Tech is peaking at the right time and is 10-1 to win it. All odds based on $100 per bet. Hence +1000 would be the same as 10-1. OffshoreInsiders.com will have the game-by-game winners.
LeBron James didn’t log many minutes in the All-Star Game, and Joel Embiid didn’t even get to play. But the latter recently dethroned the King in the latest MVP odds.
At the halfway point of the season, SportsBettingreleased updated probabilities to make the NBA Playoffs for all 30 teams, as well as the latest odds for MVP, ROY, DPOY and Sixth Man.
After a two-week run at the top of the MVP odds board, James was supplanted by Embiid last week.
LaMelo Ball, Rudy Gobert and Jordan Clarkson continue to be the odds-on favorites for Rookie of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year and Sixth Man of the Year.
In terms of playoff numbers, only the Hornets and Wizards have seen their odds flipped, meaning they were favored to make the playoffs before the season started and now aren’t, or vice versa.
Atlanta Hawks To Make Playoffs Yes -130, No +100 (Odds imply a 56.5% chance team will make playoffs. Started season with a 54.6% chance.)
Boston Celtics To Make Playoffs Make Playoffs: Yes -2500, No +1200 (Odds imply a 96.2% chance team will make playoffs. Started season with a 93.6% chance.)
Brooklyn Nets To Make Playoffs No +1500
Charlotte Hornets To Make Playoffs Yes -200, No +160 (Odds imply a 66.7% chance team will make playoffs. Odds have flipped after started season with an 83.3% chance they wouldn’t make playoffs.)
Chicago Bulls To Make Playoffs Yes +275, No -345 (Odds imply a 77.5% chance team won’t make playoffs. Started season with an 80.0% chance.)
Cleveland Cavaliers To Make Playoffs Yes +2000
Dallas Mavericks To Make Playoffs Yes -345, No +275 (Odds imply a 77.5% chance team will make playoffs. Started season with an 87.7% chance.)
Denver Nuggets To Make Playoffs Yes -1660, No +800 (Odds imply a 94.3% chance team will make playoffs. Started season with a 90.9% chance.)
Detroit Pistons To Make Playoffs Yes +2500
Golden State Warriors To Make Playoffs Yes -115, No -115 (Odds imply a 50.0% chance team will make playoffs. Started season with a 66.7% chance they would make playoffs.)
Houston Rockets To Make Playoffs Yes +1200
Indiana Pacers To Make Playoffs Yes -200, No +160 (Odds imply a 66.7% chance team will make playoffs. Started season with a 63.0% chance.)
Los Angeles Clippers To Make Playoffs No +1000
Los Angeles Lakers To Make Playoffs No +1500
Memphis Grizzlies To Make Playoffs Yes +190, No -240 (Odds imply a 70.6% chance team won’t make playoffs. Started season with a 66.7% chance.)
Miami Heat To Make Playoffs Make Playoffs: Yes -1250, No +650 (Odds imply a 92.6% chance team will make playoffs. Started season with a 92.6% chance.)
Milwaukee Bucks To Make Playoffs No +1200
Minnesota Timberwolves To Make Playoffs Yes +2500
New Orleans Pelicans To Make Playoffs Make Playoffs: Yes +220, No -275 (Odds imply a 73.3% chance team won’t make playoffs. Started season with a 65.5% chance.)
New York Knicks To Make Playoffs Make Playoffs: Yes +120, No -150 (Odds imply a 97.1% chance team won’t make playoffs. Started season with a chance.)
Oklahoma City Thunder To Make Playoffs Yes +1000
Orlando Magic To Make Playoffs Yes +1200, No -2500 (Odds imply a 96.2% chance team won’t make playoffs. Started season with a 66.7% chance.)
Philadelphia 76ers To Make Playoffs No +1500
Phoenix Suns To Make Playoffs No +1200
Portland Trail Blazers To Make Playoffs Make Playoffs: Yes -285, No +225 (Odds imply a 74.0% chance team will make playoffs. Started season with a 64.3% chance.)
Sacramento Kings To Make Playoffs Make Playoffs: Yes +700, No -1250 (Odds imply a 92.6% chance team won’t make playoffs. Started season with a 88.5% chance.)
San Antonio Spurs To Make Playoffs Make Playoffs: Yes -110, No -120 (Odds imply a 54.6% chance team won’t make playoffs. Started season with a 85.5% chance the wouldn’t make playoffs.)
Toronto Raptors To Make Playoffs Make Playoffs: Yes -450, No +325 (Odds imply a 81.8% chance team will make playoffs. Started season with a 90.1% chance.)
Utah To Make Playoffs No +2000
Washington Wizards To Make Playoffs Make Playoffs: Yes +220, No -275 (Odds imply a 73.3% chance team won’t make playoffs. Started season with a 54.6% chance they would make playoffs.)
MVP Joel Embiid +190 LeBron James +210 Nikola Jokic +375 Luka Doncic +1200 James Harden +1200 Damian Lillard +1400 Stephen Curry +1800 Giannis Antetokounmpo +1800 Kawhi Leonard +3300 Donovan Mitchell +4000 Jamal Murray +25000
ROY LaMelo Ball -715 Tyrese Haliburton +500 Anthony Edwards +1200 Immanuel Quickley +2000 James Wiseman +2800 Xavier Tillman +2800 Jae’Sean Tate +5000 Patrick Williams +5000 Tyrese Maxey +5000 Saddiq Bey +6600
DPOY Rudy Gobert -175 Ben Simmons +210 Myles Turner +575 Joel Embiid +1200 Giannis Antetokounmpo +1800 Anthony Davis +2500 Draymond Green +6600 Bam Adebayo +8000
Sixth Man Jordan Clarkson -400 Eric Gordon +1100 Terrence Ross +1600 Chris Boucher +1600 Montrezl Harrell +1800 Thaddeus Young +1800 Tyrese Haliburton +2000 Carmelo Anthony +2200 Goran Dragic +2500 Patty Mills +2500 Tyler Herro +2500 Shake Milton +2800 Lou Williams +5000 Brandon Clarke +6600
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College basketball is a momentum sport and Utah Valley is getting big points having won two straight, while GC has lost two-of-three. It is senior night for GC and they are loaded with seniors. But such teams generally do well early, get a bit overvalued and are fades late. After an 10-1 ATS start, they have lost 2-of-3 to number.
Utah Valley’s pick and roll with Jamison Overton and Trey Woodbury will give troubles to GCU smallish backcourt with Oscar Frayer banged up. Grand Canyon’s Asbjorn Midtgaard has had a ton of success dominating smaller centers. Tonight, he is matched up against Fardaws Aimaq who can match up physically.
With postponements, UVU has played tougher strength of schedule. Accusports has us covering 58.4 percent. Sportsline has UVU covering 55 percent. TeamRankings slight edge. MasseyRatings says line should be -7.5. Hasalam Metric has it an eight-point game, so modest edge.
Top expert pick from MasterLockLine: The only slump of the entire season is gone! The greatest NCAAB season ever recorded by any source, any time, any place is volcanic. For the season, power of 600-plus is 226-151 excluding pushes.
Service out of San Diego is the No. 1 handicapper west of Mississippi, which includes every Las Vegas based handicapper. College Basketball Game of the Year goes at 9 ET!
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ATLANA -3 Orlando
Road favorites off of a win that broke a losing streak are 449-317-15. So Hawks have combo of some momentum, but still enough anger. Second game since firing Lloyd Pierce and from a handicapping standpoint, an underachieving team, firing a coach in the middle of the year almost always works short-term.
Bogdan Bogdanovic back for Hawks after missing a bunch of games with knee injury. Still though without Cam Reddish and De’Andre Hunter. Clint Capela GTD. Orlando’s Evan Fournier is questionable. Fournier is averaging 20.0 points, 4.3 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 1.1 steals in 30.6 minutes over the past seven contests.
We exploit various simulators. Accuscore has Atlanta cashing the ticket 60.7 percent. Sportsline has Atlanta covering 59 percent. TeamRankings says line is perfect but NumberFire gives edge to Magic.
Though we lost two very close bets (most of you won with Charlotte OVER as we released with just one book up), we also great a break when Spurs went into OT and put the game over the total. It also opens up a nice situation. Fading unrested teams off an OT game is 242-172-7. When we are betting the road team and said team is not playing back-to-back games it covers at 69 percent. Accuscore has New York covering 57.8 percent of simulations. Sportsline gives us a mild edge at 52 percent. NumberFire has our chances at 54.1. EdgePlus has a medium bet on New York. TeamRankings says the number is about right, but bottom line is no simulators tell us to go with Spurs.
Top over-under teams in college basketball based on margin of over/under at least 15 lines games. Top OVER teams:
Team
OU Record (overs-under)
OU margin
St. Francis (NY)
12-7
+9.4
Robert Morris
11-6
+9.4
Oakland
21-6
+9.4
Southern Utah
11-4
+9.3
Florida State
11-5-2
+8.1
Wyoming
13-7-1
+8.1
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Top UNDER teams:
Team
OU Record (overs-under)
OU margin
Portland State
4-11
-10
Idaho State
4-12
-8.9
Florida A&M
6-11
-7.2
St. Bonaventure
4-13
-6.9
St. Pete’s
7-14
-6.8
DePaul
3-13
-6.7
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We release plays before lines are widely available so you can shop around for the best lines. Often that costs us when we count records based on the line quoted, often available at very few books at the time. Most of you had Charlotte OVER as a winner, but we count it as a loser in our 94-69 run.
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HOUSTON -2.5 Cleveland
Cleveland has won three straight all as underdogs. Houston lost 11 in a row! Go against teams on a straight up winning streak against teams on a straight up losing streak under certain circumstances is 515-371-13. When teams are in reverse streaks adding to 10 or greater, the ice-cold home favorite of two or more is 51-28-3. NumberFire has Houston covering 62.4 percent, TeamRankings with a slight edge at 52.1.
Best college basketball teams to bet on or against, with at least 15 lined games.
Team
ATS Record
ATS margin
Morehead State
17-8
+6.6
UC Riverside
10-7-1
+6.1
Toledo
19-6
+5.7
VMI
13-6-1
+5.6
Wright State
12-11
+5.2
Weber State
14-4
+5.2
Best teams to bet against based on said criterion.
Team
ATS Record
ATS margin
No. Illinois
3-13-1
-8.6
Florida International
5-15-1
-6.5
Miss Valley State
7-14
-5.7
New Mexico
6-12
-5.5
Boston U
7-9
-5.4
Margin of cover is a long-time tool of original cappers used to measure the reliability of the often deceptive ATS and OU records. It is much like margin of victory, except it measures margin relative to the point spread or OU. With over-under, “overs” are listed first. Some Johnny-Come-Lately handicappers call this the sweat barometer.
The odds suggest Gonzaga won’t become the eighth NCAA basketball champion to complete a perfect season, but the Zags’ chances aren’t too long.
SportsBetting released a host of NCAA Tournament-related prop bets Monday, and Gonzaga completing an undefeated season is one of them (odds imply a 28.6% chance Zags will go undefeated).
There are also odds on whether or not blue-chip bubble teams like Duke, UConn, Indiana and Michigan State will qualify for the tournament.
Finally, eight teams (Baylor, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio State, Alabama, West Virginia, Villanova, Iowa) have odds of being selected as No. 1 seeds.
Will Gonzaga finish the 2021 season undefeated? Yes +250 No -400
Will UConn be selected for the NCAA Tournament? Yes -770 No +400
Will Indiana be selected for the NCAA Tournament? Yes -120 No -120
Will Michigan State be selected for the NCAA Tournament? Yes -120 No -120
Will Duke be selected for the NCAA Tournament? Yes +300 No -525
Will Baylor be No. 1 seed in NCAA Tournament? Yes -1500 No +700
Will Michigan be No. 1 seed in NCAA Tournament? Yes -1500 No +700
Will Illinois be No. 1 seed in NCAA Tournament? Yes -300 No +200
Will Ohio State be No. 1 seed in NCAA Tournament? Yes -250 No +175
Will Villanova be No. 1 seed in NCAA Tournament? Yes +250 No -400
Will Alabama be No. 1 seed in NCAA Tournament? Yes +400 No -770
Will West Virginia be No. 1 seed in NCAA Tournament? Yes +500 No -1100
Will Iowa be No. 1 seed in NCAA Tournament? Yes +500 No -1100
Will Gonzaga reach the Final Four? Yes -300 No +200
Will Baylor reach the Final Four? Yes -250 No +175
Will Michigan reach the Final Four? Yes -250 No +175
Will Illinois reach the Final Four? Yes +300 No -525
Will Ohio State reach the Final Four? Yes +400 No -770
Will Alabama reach the Final Four? Yes +400 No -770
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