South Carolina’s 87-75 win and cover over Caitlin Clark and Iowa as 6½-point favorites was the most-bet women’s sporting event in BetMGM sportsbook history.
Basketball
Connecticut has been a cash machine for bettors in the NCAA Tournament the last two years. Bettors like them to win and cover Monday’s championship game.
Barstool Sports founder and owner Dave Portnoy is one Connecticut win away from collecting a massive payout from DraftKings sportsbook.
Surprisingly strong Baylor, Dayton and San Diego State have climbed in the power ratings, but could run into difficulty in the NCAA Tournament.
Which team will score five, 10, 15 or 20 points first?
As much as Americans love an underdog story, we also love tales of redemption, and several handicappers expect Virginia to redeem itself by winning the 2019 NCAA basketball championship.
The Westgate sports book has Tiger Woods at 20-1 to win the Masters and 5-1 to win any major in 2018.
The Warriors are 5-11 favorites ($11 to win $5) to repeat as NBA champions, and the Cavaliers are the 7-2 second choice. The Celtics (10-1) have surpassed the Spurs (12-1) as the third choice at the Westgate sports book.
The action on the Mountain West and Pac-12 tournaments will pick up for the semifinals and finals. But there has been no rush to the betting windows to get down on the future odds to win each tournament.
Gonzaga opened as a 6-point favorite over Saint Mary’s, but wiseguy action on the underdog has caused bookmakers to lower the line to 4½ for Monday’s West Coast Conference tournament title game.
UNLV travels to play Utah State today. The Rebels are 7 1/2-point underdogs.
After signing on to form the NBA’s new superteam with the Golden State Warriors, Kevin Durant is leading Team USA into a ridiculously unfair fight at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Kevin Durant’s free-agent decision means the 2016-17 regular season will be essentially meaningless as we wait for Cleveland and Golden State to meet in the NBA Finals for the third year in a row.
The Cleveland Cavaliers, outscored by a combined 48 points while dropping the first two games of the NBA Finals, find themselves on the butt-end of a joke.
Here are previews and picks for tonight’s West Coast Conference tournament semifinals at Orleans Arena.