No. 1 Gonzaga and No. 4 West Virginia meet at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, followed by No. 2 Arizona and No. 11 Xavier in the NCAA Tournament’s West Region at SAP Center in San Jose, California.
NCAA Tournament
The Westgate sports book has posted props on the Sweet 16 games in the NCAA Tournament.
The Review-Journal’s Adam Hill and Todd Dewey compete with handicappers Kelly Stewart, Doug Fitz and Paul Stone in a contest covering NCAA Tournament games Thursday and Friday.
The betting public is banking on the over trend to extend to the Sweet 16, and two handicappers are on Oregon-Michigan Over 147 and UCLA-Kentucky Over 165½.
NCAA tournament brackets everywhere have busted with some of the top-seeded teams losing earlier than expected.
Las Vegas casino owner Derek Stevens will win $1 million if Michigan captures the national basketball title after making a $12,500 futures wager at 80-1 odds at the Golden Nugget.
Favorites went 2-6 against the spread Sunday as UCLA and Kansas were the only ones to cover.
Results from the second round of the women’s NCAA Tournament on Sunday.
Lonzo Ball scored 19 points and ignited UCLA’s rally from a poor start with nine assists, lifting the third-seeded Bruins to a 79-67 victory over Cincinnati on Sunday in the South Regional.
Sindarius Thornwell had 24 points, Chris Silva scored 13 of his 17 points in the second half and seventh-seeded South Carolina stunned No. 2 seed Duke 88-81 on Sunday night to advance to its first Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament’s expanded bracket.
Baylor knew Southern California would keep coming. Unlike Providence and SMU, the Bears had answers.
With Oregon’s season on the brink of an early NCAA Tournament exit, Tyler Dorsey and Dillon Brooks delivered as they have so many times this season in crunch time.
Kennedy Meeks had 16 points and a huge tip-in with 44.2 seconds left to help North Carolina barely avoid a huge upset by rallying to beat Arkansas 72-65 in Sunday’s second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Josh Jackson scored 14 of his 23 points in the second half to help Kansas pull away late and reach the Sweet 16 for a second straight year with a 90-70 victory over Michigan State on Sunday.
Bam Adebayo had a double-double and swatted away the final shot on Sunday as Kentucky sent Wichita State to yet another second-round heartbreak, 65-62 in the South region.