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First round March Madness betting action picks back up on Friday with another 16-game slate loaded with a plethora of juicy matchups. Hopefully we added to the bankroll on Thursday to set us up for another great showing today! I’ve got six more spots circled to take advantage of at the online sportsbook and demand you put them all in a round robin so as to fatten up the bottom line for the remainder of the Tournament. Here’s to hoping we put a bow on the first round and have gas to cook with moving forward! ... 

March Madness betting tips off at the online sportsbook on Thursday with a full 16 game slate set! While the matchups don’t look to be as mouthwatering as what Friday offers up, there’s still money to be made. I’ve initially circled six spots that I really like and will look to take advantage by putting each position into a parlay in hopes of adding a bigger rate of return into the bottom line. Round robin them all with two-team, three-team, four-team, five-team, and six-team parlays and see if ... 

The NCAA Tournament is right around the corner with teams across the land now in the thick of conference tournament action. We’ve built a nice portfolio on the futures odds to win the NCAA tournament over the course of the regular season. It includes K-State +3300, Indiana +6000, Alabama +1000, Creighton +5000, Texas A&M +20000, Purdue +1500, TCU +4000, Xavier +5000, Kentucky +5000, St. Mary’s +8000, Miami Hurricanes +6000, Nevada Wolf Pack +20000 and Texas Tech Red Raiders +50000. We beat the market with most and flat-out made donations to the online sportsbook with others. But before everything picks up next week, let’s comb through the offerings one last time and see if anything must be added to the mix. ... 

It was a rough 2-3 ATS showing for last Saturday’s College Basketball parlay picks. Iowa State kicked it off by pissing away a substantial early lead and 5-point halftime lead by getting outscored 38-22 in the second half to fall 61-50 at home – against Oklahoma of all teams! Then Texas Tech fell into a huge early hole only to fight all the way back to take ... 

Back-to-back 1-2 ATS showings with my Wednesday night parlay picks has me in a foul mood. End of season variance always hits hard come March, and the basketball gods always seem to unleash upon me when attempting to build the bankroll for “The Madness.” Providence never stood a chance in the Gampel Pavilion where UConn evened up the season rivalry with relative ease. Wake Forest went for 46 in the first half against NC State but only managed 28 over the final 20 to seal its at-large fate to the ... 

My parlay picks mimicked last Saturday’s in that they ended up 3-2 ATS, but we were never in a position to sweep the board with the two losers never having a shot. Indiana proved to be one of those losing investments after getting pushed to the brink by Illinois before scoring the 71-68 win and non-cover. Mizzou was the other after getting wire-to-wire jobbed by Texas A&M on its own hardwood. And now for the good news; Texas Tech continues its ascension as predicted by going into Morgantown ... 

My streak of cashing in on Wednesday night parlay picks came to a halt last week after logging a 1-2 ATS record. Alabama proved to be ripe for a loss and the Tennessee Volunteers handed it to them after taking the Crimson Tide down 68-59 as 3-point favorites. Unfortunately, that ticket cash would be the only one of the night at the online sportsbook. Marquette proved to have a much tougher time of it against an undermanned Xavier club never once getting in position to cover the 6.5-point spread ... 

Last Saturday’s parlay picks ended up 3-2 ATS but could’ve just as easily swept the board for the second straight week. Texas got the day started off in style with a skunking of West Virginia whose positive analytic resume grossly failed to show in Austin after getting pounded 94-60. UConn came through for us a second time in the work week after losing but covering the closing CBB odds in a 56-53 loss at Creighton. Undermanned TCU proved to be game for a bulk of the game, but Baylor found a way ... 

It was yet another 2-1 showing against the College Basketball odds which made it five straight winning weeks for my Wednesday Night Parlay Picks at the online sportsbook. Georgetown kicked the night off by sticking within the number against the Providence Friars who failed to cover the inflated point spread as expected. The Alabama Crimson Tide followed it up with an all-out skunking of Florida after t... 

How SWEEP it was! We busted the brooms out and cashed every round robin parlay last Saturday. The Miami Hurricanes kicked the day off with an impressive 78-74 outright win at Clemson as short road dogs. Then the Indiana Hoosiers took care of business against Purdue to take over second place in the B1G standings. Fade Mizzou on the road and back ‘em at home – that’s exactly what we did by backing Mississippi State who cruised to the 63-52 win and cover as 3.5-point chalk. The UCLA Bruins bounced ... 

Another 2-1 showing against the college basketball odds made it four straight winning weeks for my Wednesday Night Parlay Picks. Providence kicked it all off with a ticket cash at the online sportsbook after Ed Cooley’s Friars battled enough to secure the cover but failed to get the best of Xavier in OT. The Florida Gators earned us another unit by pulling a wire-to-wire job on the Tennessee Vols to come up with a huge win on their home court. Unfortunately, the New Mexico Lobos struggles in Log... 

Separated by just a few miles in the Triangle area, the North Carolina Tar Heels and Duke Blue Devils formed an explosive rivalry. Since both schools have been among the best annually in basketball that sport tends to attract the biggest following, so Saturday’s matchup is getting plenty of attention despite both teams having subpar seasons. Well, subpar for them. Both teams have won over 68 percent of their games with the Dookies looking for payback after dropping the last two meetings. The Hee... 

Last Saturday’s parlay picks were both fantastic and nightmarish. First the bad; we stood no chance of covering with either Minnesota or DePaul as double-digit underdogs. A fatigued Northwestern squad took it right to the Gophers from the outset and never looked back. The Blue Demons made things interesting for a half, but got their doors blown off over the final 20. Creighton handled Xavier as expected both in the first half as well as the full game. That was a banger! Maryland continued its ho... 

On paper this game looks like a laugher. The Houston Cougars won 20 of 22 games, reached No. 1 in the national rankings and have dominated the American Athletic Conference once again bringing back memories of the Phi Slama Jama days. But the games aren’t played on paper as those teams will tell you and the Cougars look to avoid the same letdown in Thursday’s matchup with the Wichita State Shockers. In one of the most improbable upsets, Houston with its star studded lineup lost to NC State in the... 

A solid 2-1 showing against the College Basketball odds made it three straight winning weeks for my Wednesday Night Parlay Picks. Though UConn never once found itself in a position to cover the number in an 82-79 defeat at the hands of the Xavier Musketeers, we still ended up cashing in at the online sportsbook after Florida creamed South Carolina and the ov... 

Two high profile conferences take a break from league play to compete in the made for TV Big 12/SEC Challenge. A featured matchup has the Kansas Jayhawks visiting the Kentucky Wildcats in a battle of college basketball blue bloods. A few weeks ago many would have viewed this as a laugher. The Jayhawks were 16-1 and ranked No. 2 in the country while diehards in Lexington were calling for John Calipari’s head after an embarrassing home loss to South Carolina. The worm has turned with KU losing thr... 

It was another tough 2-1 showing for our Saturday Parlay Picks after Texas Tech blew a lead deep in the second half and failed to even cover the closing College Basketball odds against K-State. The Red Raiders then went on to get destroyed at home by West Virginia. The team is bad folks – real bad! TCU and Providence did however get us in the black. The Horn... 

The Connecticut Huskies got a needed win on Sunday ending a three-game slide with a brutal thumping of Butler. The competition stiffens on Wednesday when the first-place Xavier Musketeers pay a visit. The Musketeers rebounded from their first Big East loss that ended an 11-game winning streak by defeating Georgetown, 95-82, though they failed to cover the spread for a second straight ATS setback. The teams met at the end of December with Xavier’s 83-73 cover win starting a stretch that saw the H... 

Dependent upon where you bought into the market with Marquette, you either went 6-0 or 5-0-1 versus the College Basketball odds with last Wednesday night’s parlay picks. DePaul didn’t need any points against Xavier after pulling out the shocking 73-72 win as 9-point home dogs. St. Louis took care of business on the road against struggling Loyola Chicago, whi... 

We came a second half choke job from NC State away from sweeping the board with last Saturday’s parlay picks. Though the Wolfpack ended up winning by a bucket in overtime, we unfortunately laid three. The basketball gods giveth and taketh and they gave us a luck box cover with the UCLA Bruins who pulled away from Colorado late in the second half to topple the closing 12-point college basketball odds. The lone surefire win proved to be the Iowa State Cyclones who gave the Kansas Jayhawks all kind... 

The Connecticut Huskies breezed through their non-conference schedule winning all 11 contests and opened Big East play with three more wins, including a decisive takedown of the Butler Bulldogs in the league opener, getting as high as No. 2 in the national rankings. However, the road has been bumpy since with UConn going down in four of five games when playing as the favorite in all of them. Being at home didn’t help them on Sunday in an 85-74 loss to St. John’s as a 14.5-point favorite. The Hus... 

Typically a showdown between the UCLA Bruins and Arizona Wildcats is for bragging rights in the Pac-12. Technically it still is, but it’s the Bruins doing all the bragging right now. Unbeaten seven games into the league schedule, UCLA faces the difficult swing through the Grand Canyon State concluding with Saturday’s matchup against the Wildcats. For the fourth straight meeting both teams are ranked among the top-15 in the country, though Arizona has faltered lately dropping two of three followi... 

Not a bad debut for this piece last time out after cashing four of five parlay legs and it taking a late-game choke by the Northwestern Wildcats to prevent us from sweeping the board. It wasn’t pretty, but the Georgia Bulldogs got us to the window at the online sportsbook by staying a step ahead of Mississippi State all game long. The Creighton Bluejays came up just short at Xavier but stayed within the number. Texas A&M destroyed a Mizzou team that’s night and day on the road as expected, w... 

Most programs in the country would take what the Kentucky Wildcats have done so far this season. But this is Kentucky and any rough patch draws intense criticism from fans and the media. And the Cats are experiencing a rough stretch losing two straight with the most recent setback at home to South Carolina as a 20-point favorite. That came after the Cats were blown away 78-52 at Alabama. John Calipari is a legend in Lexington, at least when he’s winning games and NCAA titles. Even with 10 wins i... 

With the online sportsbook putting most of its attention into Saturday’s wild-card matchups in the NFL, college basketball bettors just might be able to take advantage of some betting lines that slip through the cracks. After the Northwestern Wildcats prevented us from ripping off a perfect 5-0 showing in Wednesday night’s debut of this parlay picks piece, I’m ready to get after it on a loaded college hoops betting slate that offers up another 152 games to sink our teeth into. Here’s to building...