What is a Good Pay Per Head for College Basketball Betting: ‘Seeds and Snubs’
Looking for a good Pay Per Head for all your College Basketball betting needs? Look no further than WagerHome.com. Here we check out some of this season’s March Madness seeds and snubs, courtesy of our friends at WagerHome.
Should anyone care about where they are seeded in the Big Dance? Should PPH sportsbook bettors care about it? Probably not, because when it comes down to it, if a team harbors real championship aspirations, they've got to beat everyone in front of them regardless, and eventually they're going to have to overcome the best available opponents. That's the way Bob Knight always felt about it, and we don't see how it should be any different.
However, as WagerHome.com customers are aware, seeding means an awful lot to some of the schools, as if it were some kind of a status symbol. The only time it should raise any real concerns is if a team has been underrated to the point where it is a #8 or #9 seed, and has to play an extremely competitive game in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. After all, you'd like to get off to a good start. Otherwise, it's just a matter of "survive and advance."
That having been said, if we operate on the basis that these seeds really DO need something, we would express a little outrage about the #4 spot the defending national champions occupy. The Louisville Cardinals rolled through the post-season tournament of what turned out to be a pretty good league in its maiden season, the American Athletic Conference. When you seed the team fourth, the implication is that they are no better than the 10th best team in the country, and most basketball bettors just don't see that being the case, especially when lesser schools are third-seeded here.
For example, like everyone else, we think Doug McDermott is wonderful, and we were very impressed by the way his Creighton BlueJays routed Villanova twice this season, behind a very scary offensive arsenal. But this team did not even win the Big East championship, and so we can't see any reason to put them ahead of Louisville on the seed line.
Let's put it this way - the oddsmakers at WagerHome, and the PPH betting public, have spoken, as Louisville is the +400 favorite to win it all. From a #4 slot.
And though we understand that Villanova scored some nice non-conference victories against the likes of Kansas and Iowa, we also saw them lose by 16 points to Syracuse and, as mentioned, get absolutely buried in two meetings with McDermott's team, by margins of 28 and 21 points. Then they lose to Seton Hall in the conference tournament. There is some kind of fascination that sports writers and members of this Selection Committee have had for the Wildcats, but that simply doesn't explain how they could be a #2 seed. In fact, it's kind of a travesty.
Oh, and don't get us started on leaving Larry Brown's nationally-ranked SMU squad out completely, while putting the likes of BYU, George Washington and Xavier into the 68-team field.
People have questioned the legitimacy of undefeated Wichita State, and have even suggested that the NCAA Committee even loaded up their region as a way of balancing out the fact that they could not avoid making the Shockers a #1 seed. WagerHome.com customers should not kid themselves in the least; in what is a rather wide-open field, Wichita State is fully capable of winning the whole thing. They made the Final Four last year, for heaven's sake, and brought back many of those winning components, including a couple like Cleanthony Early and Ron Baker who have gotten better. And the breakout star of this tournament might be Fred VanVleet, the Missouri Valley player of the year, who is going to show PPH basketball bettors, as well as everyone else, that he is one of the elite point guards in the country.
Yes, many of the analysts - including this reporter - are hot on Michigan State, a #4 seed, as a real possibility, now that they are healthy, but at +1200 in the PPH basketball betting futures at WagerHome.com, Wichita State may be worthy of some consideration.
Don't you want to see someone make history?
What do you think? Join the discussion by following us at
http://www.twitter.com/wagerhome