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The North Carolina Tar Heels possess three road wins in ACC play to this point of the season. The first came at Miami by a grand total of two points as 3.5-point favorites. The second took place at PITT where the Heels beat the Panthers 75-65 as 3.5-point chalk. The third went down at Cameron Indoor where Roy Williams’ troops disposed of a Duke Blue Devils team currently on the outside looking into the NCAA Tournament field. None of those teams are current Big Dance qualifiers. Neither is the Sy... 

The No. 8 ranked Villanova Wildcats could find themselves in a major lookahead spot early Sunday afternoon when they invade the Hinkle Fieldhouse looking to sweep the regular season rivalry from the unranked Butler Bulldogs. Jay Wright’s squad just so happen to have a huge tilt lined up with the Creighton Bluejays on Wednesday, so it’s certainly within the realm of reason that the lesser Bulldogs could catch the Wildcats looking ahead; especially after Nova skunked Butler 85-66 as 12.5-point hom... 

The No. 2 Baylor Bears didn’t look great in their return to the hardwood on Tuesday night off a three-week hiatus. It was forced to fight tooth and nail just to outlast the Iowa State Cyclones as decided 24-point favorites. Rust was to be expected however, and online sportsbooks paid for it with the Clones taking most of the sharp money in that fixture. With a game under the belt and only four games remaining on the regular season docket, college basketball bettors should expect to see the versi... 

Winners of just five games in conference and only sitting two-games over .500 overall, the Michigan State Spartans have been one of the bigger disappointments of the college basketball betting season at online sportsbooks. The team does however have an enormous opportunity ahead of it this week with a pair of teams ranked in the Top-10 paying East Lansing a visit. Up first is a clash with the No. 5 ranked Illinois Fighting Illini. It doesn’t get any easier after that with Chris Holtmann’s No. 4 ... 

The last time the Kansas Jayhawks ran up against the Texas Longhorns, Bill Self suffered the worst home defeat in his 18 years calling the shots on the sideline in Lawrence. With that, he should have his kids locked and loaded for this revenge bout set to go down in front of a nationally televised audience on Super Tuesday. But will it even matter? For all intents and purposes; KU has been a major disappointment for CBB bettors in logging an 11-11 overall ATS record, while posting 6-6 SU and ATS records when playing away from the Phog Allen Fieldhouse. Texas is yet to log a single resume boosting win since unpausing the program due to COVID in late January. In fact, you could say it’s been embarrassed dropping games to Oklahoma, Baylor and OK-State before righting the ship most recently against K-State and TCU. It’s never swept the regular season rivalry from the Jayhawks, but linemakers at online sportsbooks will have the No. 12 ranked team in the country installed favorites to pull off that feat in this one. ... 

Should the No. 4 ranked Ohio State Buckeyes take care of business in Happy Valley on Thursday night, they’ll return home for a pivotal clash with the No. 3 ranked Michigan Wolverines amidst a seven-game win streak with potentially six pointspread covers in tow. Whether that intimidates Juwan Howard’s troops remains to be seen, but that’s highly unlikely considering the team didn’t skip a beat in its impressive comeback win over the Wisconsin Badgers off a 3+ week hiatus from the hardwood. Regardless of how the lone regular season skirmish between these hated rivals plays out at online sportsbooks, both programs will earn first round byes in the upcoming B1G Tournament. Still, you know darn well each will be going all-out to win the game; especially after the Buckeyes swept the rivalry a season ago and Ohio State logging four straight wins and covers versus Michigan on its home hardwood. ... 

Struggling bluebloods has been a theme for the 2020-21 college basketball betting season. The Kansas Jayhawks have no shot of winning the Big 12. The Kentucky Wildcats will need a miracle to qualify for the NCAA Tournament. March Madness could be without the North Carolina Tar Heels for the first time since 2010. Then there’s the unranked Duke Blue Devils who’ve struggled to the tune of an 8-8 overall record due to injuries, COVID and a major dose of inexperience. Coach K was already clamoring for the season to be cancelled only three weeks into it! Things don’t figure to get much better for the Dookies this weekend when the ACC leading Virginia Cavaliers pay Cameron Indoor a visit fresh off a skunking at the hands of the Florida State Seminoles on Big Monday. With Jalen Johnson putting an end to his Duke career earlier in the week, the Blue Devils are going to find themselves dogged at home for the first time since 2016! ... 

As hard it is to fathom, the Kentucky Wildcats likely won’t be heading to the NCAA Tournament once the middle of March rolls around. That is unless they somehow find a way to put it all together and win the SEC Tournament. Their odds of pulling off the feat currently check in at +5000 should you feel so inclined to wager on the unlikely scenario occurring at online sportsbooks. As for the No. 19 ranked Tennessee Volunteers, the luster off a hot start to the season has worn out in a big way. After dropping a non-competitive 78-65 decision at the LSU Tigers before taking South Carolina on Wednesday night, Rick Barnes’ troops are now attempting to fend off Florida, Ole Miss, Mizzou and Georgia for one of those highly clamored for double byes in the SEC tourney. Should it fall for the third time at home against the Wildcats, they can likely kiss their shot of locking one down goodbye. ... 

Fresh off a must-have win and cover against Oklahoma State on Big Monday, the unranked Kansas Jayhawks will travel to Ames in hopes of sweeping a two-game set against the Iowa State Cyclones after the teams just met in the Phog on Thursday night. It’s been a brutal campaign for the Clones who’ve managed just two wins through 14 played games and amassed a grand total of zero Big 12 wins through nine tries heading into the first game of this double-dip. ISU has however been competitive at online s... 

On the verge of being ousted from the Top-25, the Kansas Jayhawks need to start stringing wins together if Bill Self’s team is to be taken seriously as the month of March approaches. One of the reasons for KU’s fall from grace is tonight’s opponent; the Oklahoma State Cowboys. Cade Cunningham and his teammates upset Kansas back on January 12 when they fended off a furious Jayhawks comeback to log the 75-70 outright win and cover as 3.5-point home dogs. It was the fifth time in the Jayhawks last ... 

How crazy has the COVID marred college basketball betting season been to see the North Carolina Tar Heels and Duke Blue Devils unranked heading into the first of two scheduled regular season meetings on Saturday night? The year was 1950 the last time these hated rivals opposed one another off a loss and unranked for crying out loud! It’s hard to fathom, but neither of these programs will be making much of any noise come the Madness of March. Neither team is truly any good. That is unless either ... 

A big one is set to go down from Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Thursday night when the No. 13 ranked Ohio State Buckeyes pay Iowa City a visit to run with Luka Garza and the No. 7 ranked Iowa Hawkeyes. This is a legit battle of Top-15 ranked teams with Chris Holtmann’s kids ranked No. 10 per the current Pomeroy Ratings and Fran McCaffery’s troops clocking in at No. 5 with the latter the highest ranked B1G team in the nation. That said, the Buckeyes enter this tilt the hotter team having logged wins in... 

The No. 10 Texas Tech Red Raiders could possibly return home from their trip to Baton Rouge for their SEC/Big 12 Challenge matchup with LSU losers of three straight. Should that be the case, college hoops bettors will be lining up in droves to get a piece of Chris Beard’s squad on Big Monday thinking there’s no shot the team drops four in a row as competitive a brand of ball the team’s been playing of late. However, Lon Kruger’s No. 24 ranked Oklahoma Sooners have been playing some lights ball o... 

Having just put an end to a two-game losing streak from seemingly out of nowhere, the No. 18 Tennessee Volunteers will attempt to rattle off a second straight victory on Saturday evening when they welcome the No. 15 ranked Kansas Jayhawks into Rocky Top for a fourth meeting between the two schools in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge. Recent losing streaks finds each club well off the pace of the top team in their respective conference title races, but each knows full well a win would do wonders for the ... 

The Duke Blue Devils will be out to snare a second straight win on Saturday afternoon when the Clemson Tigers come a calling looking to build off a nice win over Louisville earlier in the week. The Dookies got off the schneid as well last time out against Georgia Tech. Both teams currently find themselves in a jumbled mess sitting in the middle of the ACC standings. With this being the lone regular season meeting between the two squads, the pressure will be on for each to succeed and improve upo... 

It’s been a down year for basketball in the ACC, but don’t tell that to the Virginia Cavaliers. Improving to 5-0 in conference play with a rout of Clemson, the Cavs continue their quest for another regular season league title when they host the Syracuse Orange on Monday night. Both programs have dealt with canceled and postponed games due to COVID, but the Cavs have fared better taking a five-game winning streak into the weekend. And the team known for its smothering defense has suddenly become ... 

A good one is set to go down in Omaha on Saturday afternoon when Marcus Zegarowski and the No. 11 ranked Creighton Bluejays attempt to snap their first two-game losing streak of the season against the No. 23 ranked UConn Huskies. Connecticut saw its four-game win streak get snapped at online sportsbooks last time out in a tough home loss to a St. John’s squad that climbed over .500 with the victory. They’ll now put their unblemished 3-0 SU and ATS true road marks on the line in their first-ever ... 

Though the Duke Blue Devils don’t look to be cut from the same cloth as prior Coach K teams, the KFC YUM! Center will undoubtedly still be rocking when the Louisville Cardinals welcome them in for a Saturday afternoon tip. Much will be on the line for both squads with each looking to put an end to respective two-game losing streaks that saw both squads fall as short favorites. The Dookies fell earlier in the week at PITT as 4.5-point road chalk, while the Ville got embarrassed by the Florida Sta... 

It’s not quite the matchup we envisioned at the start of Big 12 play but it’s a doozy nonetheless. The Kansas Jayhawks look to climb back to the top of the standings when they visit the No. 2 Baylor Bears on Monday night. The Jayhawks are two games back in the loss column and their run of conference titles will be in jeopardy if they lose this game. Baylor has dealt with a number of postponements and cancellations and is still unbeaten after dropping the hammer on TCU. Both teams have a schedule... 

The No. 8 Creighton Bluejays go for their seventh straight win when they tangle with the struggling Butler Bulldogs in a Big East tilt on Saturday. On paper this game looks like a rout. But as we know the games aren’t played on paper. Still, the way Creighton dismantled its last two opponents should be frightening for the Bulldogs, who have dropped two straight and four of their last five. The Big East contest will air live on FS1 at 4 p.m. ET on Saturday, January 16, 2021 from Hinkle Fieldhouse... 

You can get into action early on Sunday before the NFL kicks off with college hoops action on FOX, as the Providence Friars visit the Xavier Musketeers. The Friars come into this game at 7-4 overall and 3-2 in the Big East, while the Musketeers are 9-2 and 2-2 in the Big East. Keep in mind that this game has an early tip-off of 11 a.m. Eastern Time on Sunday. Let’s look at the game between the Friars and Musketeers and college basketball picks.... 

The Big 12 leading Texas Longhorns put their undefeated conference record on the line when they face the West Virginia Mountaineers in a top-15 tilt on Saturday. There’s never an easy game in the Big 12. The Longhorns climbed to No. 4 in the national rankings after walloping Kansas then had to hold off last place Iowa State to improve to 3-0 in league play. The Mountaineers are just 2-2 in conference action, but they’re always a tough out, especially on their home court.... 

It’s early in the Big Ten season but the Michigan state Spartans are sitting at the bottom of the standings after losing their first three league games. To say they are in desperate need of a victory would be an understatement. Considering how stacked the conference is it might be tough for the Spartans to make up ground. They could get a jolt of confidence by knocking off the Rutgers Scarlet Knights when the teams get together on Tuesday. Rutgers is perched near the top of the standings having ... 

It’s an early Big 12 top-10 test for the Texas Longhorns and Kansas Jayhawks when the 1-loss teams square off at Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday. As long as No. 3 Kansas doesn’t have to play the No. 1 ranked team in the country they’ll do just fine. The Jayhawks have won eight straight since losing their opener to top-ranked Gonzaga. Half of those wins came against ranked opponents, including a decisive win over No. 7 West Virginia last time out. The schedule hasn’t been nearly as difficult for the... 

Mike Krzyzewski has openly questioned why the college basketball season started amid the COVID pandemic. Maybe he knows something the rest of us don’t. Or quite possibly he realizes his Duke Blue Devils need some seasoning. It’s been an uncharacteristic slow start for Duke alternating wins and losses over their first five games to go 3-2. The Blue Devils look for their first winning streak of the season when they visit the No. 18 Florida State Seminoles in an ACC tilt on Saturday. The Dookies lo...