Handicappers have the Duke listed as 7-point favorites against Butler, while the matche’s total is set to 128.

The Bulldogs’ dream season continues as they earned a hard-game 52-50 victory over Michigan State in the last semifinal Saturday. The Bulldogs covered the 1.5- point spread, and both teams felt short in the original posted total of 126.

Hayward took the leadership in Butler with nineteen points and 8 rebounds, while Shelvin Mack contributed with fourteen points.

Scheyer had a shinning night with 23 points as Duke slapped West Virginia 78-57 in the Final Four last weekend. The Blue Devils did covered the 2.5-point spread, as well as the total of 131.5 (Over 135 points)

Championship Game Teams streak:

The Bulldogs have won 25 matches in a row.

The Blue Devils have won 9 matches in row.

Championship Game Team records:

Duke Blue Devils: 34-5 SU, 23-14-1 ATS

Butler Bulldogs: 33-4 SU, 17-20 ATS

Important Trends to consider in Championship Game Betting Action:

Butler Bulldogs is 5-0 SU in its last 5 matches

Duke Blue Devils is 5-0 SU in its last 5 matches

Feel Free to check the best 2010 NCAA Championship Odds at SBG Global Sportsbook.

That is the other funny fact of the story. Duke, who has not surprise anybody by reaching the finals, will have to play against little Butler. It is obvious that Duke has won the favorite position very early. It is also obvious that any March Madness betting fan will take Duke to make a definite winning bet. All Duke has to do is cover the spread.

If we study the NCAA betting bracket very closely, we will see that the Blue Devils from Duke are a #1 seed. On the other hand, the Bulldogs from Butler are placed as a #5 seed. This position was thought by many fans to be a very generous one as there where many teams that came in stronger than them.

Duke is remembered for having won three championships in their hands but most of all for having a basketball program considered to be the most successful one in the league. But if we analyze Butler’s almost nonexistent popularity, we see that they have never taken any title home and practically never have of any interest to the sports betting fan.

Regardless of all these facts, in the world of college basketball betting anything can happen. If Butler got to this point, they can perfectly and without a doubt take the championship from Duke. We will just have to wait and see if there are any more surprises waiting for the very end of what has been the most exciting March Madness ever.

The Butler Bulldogs opponent in the college basketball betting national title game will be the Duke Blue Devils (NCAA betting royalty).  No one is surprised by Duke’s college basketball betting achievements and this is truly a sports betting David vs. Goliath in almost every since.

NCAA odds makers have made Duke the early favorite as any college basketball fan would expect.  The Blue Devils are a #1 seed in the March Madness betting.  The Bulldogs are a #5 seed in the NCAA betting bracket and some people thought even that was a generous seeding.

Duke has won three NCAA odds national titles and are one of the most successful programs in college basketball betting history.  Butler has never won any title and has never even been on most sports betting fan’s radar in terms of big time NCAA basketball wagering.

Duke’s Coach is so well known and so successful he simply goes by Coach-K and will looking for his fourth NCAA basketball betting national championship on Monday.

Butler’s coach, Brad Stevens, looks younger than most of his players and is an unknown in the world of college basketball betting.

But none of that will matter once the ball is tipped during Monday’s college basketball betting title game.  And that’s the real beauty of March Madness betting: any team, no matter how small or how unknown has a chance to play for the biggest prize in NCAA basketball betting and Butler is living proof of that.

Butler University is a small private university in Indianapolis, IN and has hardly been more than a blip on the college basketball betting radar screen.  The team plays in a mid-level conference and more or less the winner of the conference has been a courtesy invite to the March Madness betting, never having a shot at winning the college basketball betting title …until this year.

Butler has defied the NCAA odds makers’ predictions and earned its spot in the NCAA betting final on Monday.  So often in sports betting you’ll see a team get swept up in a current of good luck and ride the wave to success in some of the biggest events in sports gambling.

But what makes Butler’s March Madness betting success so impressive is that it has nothing to do with luck.  Any NCAA odds fan that has seen this team play in the college basketball betting tournament has seen a very good team beat the pants off of much higher seeded teams.  With wins over #1 Syracuse and #2 seed Kansas State you could hardly say that the Bulldogs have been lucky during the March Madness betting.

In almost every game, except for the Bulldog’s Final Four betting win against Michigan State, the final score hasn’t even been close during the NCAA basketball betting tournament.  Butler is one of the rare teams anywhere in sports betting that somehow flew under the radar for an entire college basketball betting season and fans are just now realizing how good this team really is.

That’s awfully rare air, but Coach K is one of the best to ever pace the college basketball betting sidelines and it’s no accident that he’s playing for his fourth title in the NCAA odds competition.

In fact, that Duke has advanced to the final game of the March Madness betting is almost a more a testament to Coach K’s skill as a coach than his team’s ability on the court.  Make no mistake this is not the most talented team he’s ever coached, not by a long shot.  In fact, it’s unlikely that any of the players Duke’s college basketball wagering team this season will ever play in the NBA, or perhaps only briefly.  In NCAA basketball betting seasons in the past Duke has had All-Americans, NBA lottery picks and Wooden Award winners on its talented rosters.

This team has nothing like that at all and the fact that it made it to the March Madness betting final is because this unit plays like a team possessed.  The only other team that plays as a team unit in the NCAA odds this season is probably Butler.  And it’s hardly a coincidence that both of these teams will be featured in the March Madness betting final.

If you’re one of the three people on planet earth that actually picked Duke vs. Butler Odds in the NCAA basketball lines championship than this may be the finest day of your life.  But for the rest of the sports betting community out there –with your NCAA basketball bracket wadded up in the garbage can- this should still be a highly entertaining basketball betting matchup.

These two teams actually have very similar style’s of play and both have been playing at a very high level over the past month or two of the college basketball betting season.  The key to both team’s success has been fundamental basketball.  Both teams play defense, pass the ball well, shoot high percentage shots and make free throws.  It’s sounds basic and simple but just ask the other 63 teams from the NCAA basketball betting bracket how simple it is.

But the other similarity between these two teams is good coaching.  Coach K is obviously much more experienced in coaching NCAA basketball lines matchups but young Brad Stevens has taken a back seat to no one so far in this year’s NCAA basketball bracket in terms of coaching and he’s one of major reasons why the Bulldogs are in the college basketball betting final.

Duke is a 7-point favorite with a total of 129.

The biggest difference between these two teams however is talent and the Duke roster is simply more skilled and has greater depth than the Bulldogs.  However, the same could be said for most of the Bulldog’s opponents in the NCAA basketball lines in recent weeks and how’d that work out?

Terrific outside shooting and strong rebounding, among other things, but in terms of intimidation, the Blue Devils #1 seed would seem to be of little advantage in this NCAA basketball bracket.  And even though the #5 seed Bulldogs will be an underdog in the NCAA basketball lines that should have little impact on their confidence.

Butler has proved that it belongs in the NCAA basketball betting final on Monday and will play its brand of feisty, defensive basketball no matter who the basketball betting opponent is.  True, Duke has more talent and deeper roster, but then again so did Syracuse, and Kansas State’s, other highly seeded opponents that Butler ousted from the NCAA basketball bracket.

The key for Butler to win the NCAA basketball lines matchup on Monday is to continue to play strong defense.  Butler’s guards must disrupt the sharp shooting of the Duke’s Big Three and work the glass.   Butler has to have a hand in the face of Scheyer, Singler and Smith every time they attempt a shot.  If the Bulldogs can make them shoot a low percentage and limit second chance points in the paint they could easily win a low scoring game in college basketball betting championship game.

If Duke is able to shoot well from the outside it will make a Bulldog victory in this sports betting matchup very difficult.  For one thing the game would likely turn into a high scoring affair and for another it would open up the inside game –neither development would favor Butler. For the Bulldogs to win the NCAA betting championship title they have force the Dukies into an off-shooting night and make sure Blue Devils big men don’t have a big night.

Duke is a 7-point favorite with a total of 129 at SBG Global.

Butler didn’t really play that well on Saturday against Michigan State but was able to win thanks to their defense. “I never thought we would win if we shot 15 for 49,” Butler head coach Brad Stevens said. The Bulldogs have won 25 games in a row but they will need to play better on Monday to make it 26 straight. “Words can’t explain the way everybody is feeling right now,” Butler senior forward Willie Veasley said, “to be in the national championship game, when nobody gave us a chance at all.”

Butler is not getting much respect in this game. They have a decided home court advantage, yet they are 7-point underdogs to Duke. The Blue Devils are a three-time national champion but they have not been in the title game in nine years. “It’s definitely going to be a big story, I’m sure,” Duke’s Nolan Smith said. “People calling Butler the Cinderella and, of course, Duke the big-time program. But it’s going to be a fight. You know, both teams are very good.” Butler has held 12 of its last 13 opponents under 60 points, including all five in the NCAA Tournament. “I think they’re an outstanding basketball betting team who, because Butler hasn’t been to the Final Four, creates that Cinderella thing,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “But they’re one of the best teams in the country, or else they wouldn’t be playing in the national championship. They’ve earned it.”

The Bulldogs are 4-1 ATS in their last 5 NCAA Tournament games. The Bulldogs are 4-1 ATS in their last 5 vs. the ACC. The Bulldogs are 20-6 ATS in their last 26 games as an underdog. The Blue Devils are 5-0 ATS in their last 5 NCAA Tournament games.

The Under is 4-0 in the Bulldogs last 4 overall. The Under is 12-5 in the Blue Devils last 17 overall.

But what could be even more surprising is tiny Butler winning this NCAA basketball lines matchup and playing Monday night for the college basketball betting national title. Butler? Playing for a college basketball betting title? Sure it sounds crazy, but it’s very likely the Bulldogs will advance to the nest round of the NCAA basketball bracket.

The Spartans and Bulldogs both entered the March Madness betting tournament as #5 seeds and neither was expected to have much success. But Michigan State, even without injured star Kalin Lucas, is not all that big of a surprise considering it’s been in the Final Four betting odds 6 of past 12 basketball betting seasons.

Butler, though, had by far the longest odds in the NCAA basketball lines of any of the four remaining teams. On Saturday it will get its shot once again to defy the college basketball odds makers. And you have to like the team’s chances. Michigan State has beaten some tough opponents on its road to the Final Four betting but nothing like the competition that Butler has faced.

Butler is the only team in the NCAA basketball bracket this season that has beaten both a #1 seed and #2 seed. Both Syracuse and Kansas State were better teams than Spartans and if Butler plays to the same level it did in its two previous games, it will win on Saturday and make its frits appearance in an NCAA basketball betting championship game.

But here they are, just two wins away from hoisting the college basketball betting title and far outshining the rest of their highly acclaimed Big East competition. The team’s next game in the March Madness betting will likely be its most difficult yet when the Mountaineers face off against Duke in the Final Four odds.

WV is the best remaining defensive team in the NCAA basketball betting tournament and its unique 1-3-1 zone has shut down much more prolific scorers than any player Duke will throw at them. WV should be able to shut down the perimeter offense of Duke in this basketball betting matchup and force the Blue Devils to beat them in the paint. Duke has solid big men but they’re not good enough to beat WV by themselves.

In fact, the Dukies’ perimeter oriented offense is a perfect matchup for WVs smothering defense and if you’re Coach Bob Huggins you have to be licking your lips.

Duke is arguably the best team remaining in the March Madness betting and many NCAA odds makers have them beating WV, but the Mounties’ zone is a very tough matchup for the Blue Devils and WV should prevail.