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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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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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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With only two calendar days left in the month of February, it’s safe to say that March Madness betting has set in by in the minds of most college basketball betting fans.  Most of these people are crazy to begin with and when you throw in the NCAA odds action for the upcoming Tournament it’s too much for their brains and for the next five weeks these people will be barely functioning human beings, distracted to no-end with college basketball betting.

Let the games begin!

There are many, many, many good teams out there this year and although the NCAA odds rankings would lead one to believe that the Tournament will be dominated by the Big East and the Big 12 this season there are plenty of teams out there flying underneath the college basketball betting radar this year and there some teams that haven’t caught the eye of the NCAA odds experts that are very capable of pulling some big upsets.

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Today in NCAA Basketball we have an interesting game with two teams in the Big Ten Conference Penn State at Michigan State.  Presently  Michigan State is ranked third in the Big Ten at 12-4 Conference and 22-7 Overall while Penn State is ranked 11th at 3-13 Conference and 11-17 Overall which should make for some interesting NCAA betting and basketball betting odds today.

A brief recap of the MSU Spartans’ The Spartans’ 9-0 start in league play was the best in school history. They then lost four of six games to fall into second place for the first time. The Spartans started 4-0 in Big Ten road games, giving them a program-best stretch of 12 wins in 13 Big Ten road games.

Five of Michigan State’s losses came against good competition away from home—at North Carolina and Texas, vs. Florida in Atlantic City, then at Wisconsin and Illinois. The sixth and seventh losses came at home to the Big Ten’s best, Purdue and Ohio State. Sunday’s win at Purdue has the Spartans in line to win a share of the Big Ten title if it closes the regular season with home wins over Penn State and Michigan and then we will witness very different line changes for NCAA betting and basketball betting odds for the Big Ten fans and fanatics.

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