If you like college basketball betting than there is just one thing for you to watch in the coming week: the Big East tournament.  Nowhere are you going to see the type of crazy NCAA odds action that you’ll find at this competition.  The Big East Tourney is simply the Rolls Royce of college basketball betting and with two likely #1 seeds in the Big Dance this will likely be a great primer for the NCAA odds tournament.

In recent years the Big East has established itself as the supreme champ of the college basketball betting sending more teams to the NCAA odds tourney than anyone one and having more success than any other conferences.

With three teams consistently ranked in the top ten all season long, 2010 has been just more of the same.

Heading into the Big East Tournament, which tips on March 9th, Syracuse (28-2) is not only the top team in the Big East, but the entire country.  But it’s hardly the only highly ranked team in the conference.

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Only a week the only thing clear about the college basketball betting scene heading into March was the #1 seeds for the NCAA odds tournament.  But as with most things when it comes to college basketball betting it turned out not be so clear after all and with the Tournament just a week away nobody seems to have any idea which teams will be the #1 seeds in the upcoming NCAA odds.

In the crazy sea of unpredictability that is college basketball betting fans could at least take solace in the Bracket preparations with Syracuse, Villanova, Kentucky and Kansas anchoring the one seeds.

But in a stretch of a just a handful of days in the NCAA odds action that roadmap has been turned on its head. 

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Today we have an excellent NBA Basketball matchup between Toronto Raptors and the L.A. Lakers and this matchup should present the NBA Betting fans and the NBA Basketball lines and odds very challenging stats.  The Lakers are a team on the edge with Kobe Bryant setting the tone.  After their third straight loss, the Lakers are trying to stop the tailspin.  Another loss tonight would give the Lakers their first four game losing streak since April 2007.  Ten of the Lakers’ remaining games are away from home, a troubling proposition for a team that has dropped four consecutive road games.

The NBA Betting and basketball betting lines and odds may be different in this matchup with the Raptors at the Lakers as the Raptors defeated the Lakers’, 106-105 when the teams played in January 2010.  Raptors All-Star Chris Bosh returned to action Sunday after missing seven games due to a sprained left ankle coupled with a stomach virus. He had 12 points and 12 rebound in the Raptors 114-101 loss to Philadelphia on Sunday.  Bosh’s presence against the Lakers should make this game much more interesting. The overall Raptors, however, aren’t so fine and find themselves struggling to hold on to a playoff spot as they start on this four-game West Coast trip.

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The Butler Bulldogs will try and help some of the bubble teams as they face Wright State on Tuesday in the Horizon League Championship.  The 12th ranked Bulldogs are going to make the NCAA Tournament regardless of whether they win on Tuesday or not.  If Wright State can pull off the upset though, it would take away an at-large bid from one of the bubble teams.  The Raiders have their work cut out for them as Butler has won 19 straight games including both matchups against Wright State this college basketball betting season.

Butler is listed as a 7.5 -point favorite at SBG Global with a total of 122.

Wright State took out Detroit 69-50 on Saturday to reach the title game of the Horizon League while Butler beat Milwaukee 68-59 to reach the Championship.  The Horizon League would love to send two teams to the NCAA betting Tournament but that will only happen if Wright State wins on Tuesday.  The Raiders have 20 wins but they will be playing in the NIT unless they upset the Bulldogs.

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The San Antonio Spurs will have to learn to win without guard Tony Parker as he is likely to miss the rest of the regular NBA betting season with a broken hand.  They might have an easier time on Monday at Cleveland if LeBron James does not play for the Cavaliers.  James sat out on Saturday in Milwaukee and the Cavaliers lost 92-85.  Head coach Mike Brown said that LeBron was held out for rest but James did roll his ankle against Detroit on Friday.  The Cavaliers got 30 points out of Antawn Jamison and 27 points from Delonte West but they didn’t have enough to win without LeBron against the Bucks on Saturday.

Cavaliers are listed as a 7 -point favorite at SBG Global with a total of 195.

It is possible that LeBron will be held out again on Monday since the Cavaliers have three days off after this game.  “He has played a lot of minutes for us, and I felt it would be good for him and for the team to hold him out,” Brown said about holding out LeBron on Saturday. “This is my decision based on the minutes I think he has played and his body and all that other stuff.”

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Don’t let the #2 ranking fool you.  When it’s all said and done the Syracuse men’s basketball team just might be the very best team in all of college basketball betting.  This team is talented, deep, well-coached and full of great individual players.  It seems a lock for a number one seed in the NCAA odds tournament and could very well be the 2010 college basketball betting champion.

So just what makes this team so good?  After all, there are a lot of great teams in the NCAA odds this season with the likes of #1 Kansas, #3 Kentucky, and even fellow Big East team #4 Villanova all with credible claims to the top spot in college basketball betting.

While these are all fine teams the Orangemen look like the team to beat because of their defense and their personnel.  The front court of Syracuse led by Wesley Johnson, Kris Joseph and Arinze Onuaku all average double digits in scoring and account for 19 rebounds a game to go along with a combined 3.5 blocks per game.  But numbers aside these guys are huge, intimidating and talented.

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