March Madness Round of 64 Betting Recap

March Madness Round of 64 Betting Recap

The “opening” round of the NCAA Tournament is now complete where day one saw a flurry of early upsets and day two saw a lot of chalk winning. Here’s a brief betting recap of what has unfolded so far:

– 3-seeds historically have been the most profitable to bet on ATS in the Round of 64 but they went 0-4 ATS this season.

– Underdogs went 21-11 ATS including an 8-2 ATS record by double-digit dogs

– Teams receiving less than 50% of bets went 22-10 ATS and teams receiving less than 40% of bets went 15-4 ATS

– Sportsbooks cleaned up on Thursday and even though favorites were winning on Friday, Valpo’s cover against Maryland was the biggest decision around many Vegas books

– This was the first year since 2007 that no 12-seed beat a 5-seed, and just the fourth year all-time (1987, 2000, 2007)

– Biggest ML upsets:

1. UAB +991
2. Georgia State +393
3. UCLA +156

– Records by Conference:

1. ACC 6-0
2. Pac-12 4-0
3. Big Ten 5-2
4. Big East 4-2
5. MVC 2-0
6. CUSA 1-0
7. Sun Belt 1-0
8. WCC 1-0
9. AAC 1-1
10. MWC 1-1
11. ATL10 1-2
12. SEC 2-3
13. Big 12 2-3
14. All others 0-1

– There is only ONE perfect bracket remaining in ESPN’s Tournament Challenge out of 11.57 million brackets:

The only perfect bracket remaining in ESPN’s Tournament Challenge out of 11.57 million: http://t.co/U2IVTlzEtb

— SportsInsights.com (@SportsInsights) March 21, 2015

– And here’s the vine that best captures March Madness:

Georgia State pulls the upset with this shot from another area code. http://t.co/aK9sCdaP9X

— Covers (@Covers) March 19, 2015

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