In terms of sheer numbers, no sport matches the opportunity, intrigue, depth of quality, or endless variety involved with college basketball betting. Nearly every day of the week, from mid-November through March, bettors and sportsbooks match bankrolls on the hardwood fortunes of 235 teams in more than a dozen conferences.
While number crunching and detailed analysis always are essential tools in college basketball betting, a degree of art compliments the science and is helpful, too. The successful bettor understands that subjective analysis of a number of other factors also must be considered.
Let’s look at a number of these elements:
Teeming with teams: Competition all but mandates that a sportsbook posts prices on over 200 teams, (as compared to 30 NBA clubs) providing the gambler with many more options. For bettors, it’s a lot easier to find a bad number among 100 games than it is to find one among 13 or 14.
Home, sweet home: Sure, the home court is a factor in NBA play but it’s the tiresome travel associated with getting to a road game that puts the visiting team at a disadvantage in the pro ranks. For that reason, NBA spreads...