🏀NCAA basketball🏀 March Madness 2022🏆-🤾 Sportsbet.io discussion thread

[rdbase]

We're at that time of the year when things get hopping in hoops with colleges across the nation go head to head in a month long tournament known as:
March Madness



There are the First Four currently going on but the real tournament starts on March 17th with the first round.
Here is the bracket that has been released about three hours ago:

source: https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/mml-official-bracket/2022-03-15/2022-ncaa-bracket-printable-march-madness-bracket-pdf

With the tournament's ending up in New Orleans hosting the finals of the best two teams in the country.

So lock in those brackets and let's see who gets closest by the end of March!
https://sportsbet.io/sports/basketball/usa/ncaa-division-i-national-championship/matches

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[rdbase]

The first match of the tournament starts in a little more than 12 hours from now, so wake up/go to bed late. Depending on where you are from so not to miss any of the action. The 4-3-free multimasters competition starts is when the first game is played so put in your selections now if you want a chance to get in on the $100,000 USDT prize from sportsbet.io
Here is the link to it: https://sportsbet.io/sports/4-3-free

Here are my picks that I had placed as part of my betslip:


Good luck all who are taking part in the action all month long!

[rdbase]

https://sportsbet.io/promotions/2022-03-march-madness



Here are my predictions on how the brackets are going to go:

San Diego State - Creighton Bluejays
Iowa Hawkeyes - Richmond Spiders
USC Trojans - Miami Hurricanes
LSU Tigers - Iowa State Cyclones
Seton Hall Pirates - TCU Horned Frogs
Houston Cougars - UAB Blazers
Colorado State Rams - Michigan Wolverines
Ohio State Buckeyes - Loyola Ramblers
North Carolina Tar Heels - Marquette Golden Eagles
Murray State Racers - San Francisco Dons
Texas Longhorns - Virginia Tech Hokies
Boise State Broncos - Memphis Tigers
Connecticut Huskies- New Mexico State Aggies
Michigan Spartans - Davidson Wildcats
UCLA Bruins - Akron Zips

[dittoup]

Woho nice to see the March Madness and Multi-Master back on the map.
Far from any expert on the NCAA but with guidance from the odds and some lucky fingers I come down with these 15 picks:

San Diego State - Creighton Bluejays
Iowa Hawkeyes - Richmond Spiders
USC Trojans - Miami Hurricanes
LSU Tigers - Iowa State Cyclones
Seton Hall Pirates - TCU Horned Frogs
Houston Cougars - UAB Blazers
Colorado State Rams - Michigan Wolverines
Ohio State Buckeyes - Loyola Ramblers
North Carolina Tar Heels - Marquette Golden Eagles
Murray State Racers - San Francisco Dons
Texas Longhorns - Virginia Tech Hokies
Boise State Broncos - Memphis Tigers
Connecticut Huskies- New Mexico State Aggies
Michigan Spartans - Davidson Wildcats
UCLA Bruins - Akron Zips

Looking forward to a fun ride with lots of action and good luck with your picks guys!

[Ulven]

I'm not very experienced with basketball, but it's worth a try and we'll see if we have a chance to win $100,000. I have finished setting my choices and they are as follows:

1. San diego state
2. Iowa hawkeyes
3. Miami hurricanes
4. LTS tigers
5. Ston hall pirates
6. Houston
7. Colorado
8. Ramblers
9. North carolina
10. San francisco
11. Texas
12. Boise
13. Connecticut
14. Davidson
15. Bruins

Good luck for all participants.

[buwaytress]

So you said the first game started already, but I'm not sure where to find it. Googling NCAA shows me matches completed but using state names most so have to click each to bring out full details so I recognise teams. Now I know I should never refer to football teams by their nicks heh.

How dare no one go against UCLA Bruins!

As you can tell, Basketball idiot entering the fray. Selections as requested:

One favourite out already (Rams) and one of my picks Broncos trailing 19-38 at HT so not looking good.

• Creighton Bluejays
• Iowa Hawkeyes
• Miami Hurricanes
• Iowa State Cyclones
• TCU Horned Frogs
• Houston Cougars
• Colorado State Rams
• Ohio State Buckeyes
• Marquette Golden Eagles
• Murray State Racers
• Texas Longhorns
• Boise State Broncos
• Connecticut Huskies
• Michigan Spartans
• UCLA Bruins

And with a useless fact of the day: in my local language it translates into netball; in our neighbouring country, they decided to just call it ball in the same language but borrowed the entire foreign word of "basket"... I laughed so hard the first time I heard it as a 10-yr old.

[ralle14]

Quoting my post from the other thread since this is the more appropriate place for it. Went for mostly favorites and going for a safer route for now since it's just the start.

I'll only go on the underdogs if there are a few teams that reach the sweet 16. Also good to see that there are tons of prizes up for grabs.  

San Diego State - Creighton Bluejays
Iowa Hawkeyes - Richmond Spiders
USC Trojans - Miami Hurricanes
LSU Tigers - Iowa State Cyclones
Seton Hall Pirates - TCU Horned Frogs
Houston Cougars - UAB Blazers
Colorado State Rams - Michigan Wolverines
Ohio State Buckeyes - Loyola Ramblers
North Carolina Tar Heels - Marquette Golden Eagles
Murray State Racers - San Francisco Dons
Texas Longhorns - Virginia Tech Hokies
Boise State Broncos - Memphis Tigers
Connecticut Huskies- New Mexico State Aggies
Michigan Spartans - Davidson Wildcats
UCLA Bruins - Akron Zips

[Maus0728]

Alright imma drop my own picks for this season 

San Diego State - Creighton Bluejays
Iowa Hawkeyes - Richmond Spiders
USC Trojans - Miami Hurricanes
LSU Tigers - Iowa State Cyclones
Seton Hall Pirates - TCU Horned Frogs
Houston Cougars - UAB Blazers
Colorado State Rams - Michigan Wolverines
Ohio State Buckeyes - Loyola Ramblers
North Carolina Tar Heels - Marquette Golden Eagles
Murray State Racers - San Francisco Dons
Texas Longhorns - Virginia Tech Hokies
Boise State Broncos - Memphis Tigers
Connecticut Huskies- New Mexico State Aggies
Michigan Spartans - Davidson Wildcats
UCLA Bruins - Akron Zips

Goodluck guys on your bets! Hopefully mine would have a chance to win (wish all my bets would hit  )

[ralle14]

I'm off to a bad start as some of the underdogs manage to pull through. Luckily, UCLA manages to go on a crucial run at the end of the second half to secure the win.

Hopefully tomorrow more favorites start to win so I could recover a bit.

San Diego State - Creighton Bluejays
Iowa Hawkeyes - Richmond Spiders
USC Trojans - Miami Hurricanes
LSU Tigers - Iowa State Cyclones
Seton Hall Pirates - TCU Horned Frogs
Houston Cougars - UAB Blazers
Colorado State Rams - Michigan Wolverines
Ohio State Buckeyes - Loyola Ramblers
North Carolina Tar Heels - Marquette Golden Eagles
Murray State Racers - San Francisco Dons
Texas Longhorns - Virginia Tech Hokies
Boise State Broncos - Memphis Tigers
Connecticut Huskies- New Mexico State Aggies
Michigan Spartans - Davidson Wildcats
UCLA Bruins - Akron Zips

[buwaytress]

^That definitely counts me out of contention as thanks to that UCLA Bruins late win, I have the exact score of ONE game right! Pretty sure a totally random selection would have done much better, but there you go, what happens when you don't know what's on the plate.

Honestly had no idea amateur sports was so big in the US. I mean, I used to follow youth teams from Liverpool quite closely, but never to watch a game, just to follow developments. Sterling was someone I really followed all the way to senior professional football, and then I ragequit when he left us for the moneybags.

GL to the rest of you! Any upcoming stars caught your eye?

[rdbase]

What a night for upsets and it is just round 1!
Saint Peters was the most shocking one of them all.
This goes down as the biggest loss to a lower seeded team in the history of the entire tournament.
That is how unlikely it was.
But as they all say: "Any one can lose in the Big Dance and it just might be their Last Dance!"
Odds were over 11.71x for this 15th seed to beat the 2nd seeded Kentucky.

As for the Multimaster:
I had 8 correct and from the past ones have shown there is most likely someone on the leaderboard with 11 to take the prize.
The stats haven't updated from last night but there were about 4-5 with 8 correct scores.

[rdbase]

Should of counted the last match of the day.
So I actually had 9 correct in the Multimasters but it came to no avail as their were two or three on top of the leaderboard with 12.
That is pretty unbelievable to think they only had 3 incorrect on the bracket out of 15 games which had a whole lot of upsets with the cinderella story of the tournament:
Saint Peters

Fifteenth seed beating seventh seed Murray State to go to the Sweet Sixteen!

Don't know of anyone who bet on them to make it out of the first round but they did and more.

I made some good bets on the games last night and actually into profit from Gonzaga making a comeback late and scoring over 155.5 pts.

[buwaytress]

Re MM, I just saw the leaderboard, 4 of them on 12 so that's $2125 each I guess, generous returns for a simple prediction. Would have loved to know if they were doing proper predictions or just random draw.

I actually ended up getting 10 points, not bad, huh? After the crazy first night, hitting only 1, apparently everything left was the right pick. Go Sojourner haha. Didn't see too many usernames I recognised but this for sure had way more participants than regular MM.

For anyone wondering, you can check at Leaderboard tab on the 4-3-free promo if you want to see.

[rdbase]

Re MM, I just saw the leaderboard, 4 of them on 12 so that's $2125 each I guess, generous returns for a simple prediction. Would have loved to know if they were doing proper predictions or just random draw.

I actually ended up getting 10 points, not bad, huh? After the crazy first night, hitting only 1, apparently everything left was the right pick. Go Sojourner haha. Didn't see too many usernames I recognised but this for sure had way more participants than regular MM.

For anyone wondering, you can check at Leaderboard tab on the 4-3-free promo if you want to see.

You go more than me correct. Yeah go Sojourner go!

There was one guy on the Sportsbet.io Ann thread that said he was 3rd on the leaderboard.
So you can ask him how much was the prize for that position when it settles.
Because from the sounds of it he hadn't yet as it takes a couple of days for them to tally all the correct selections.
Just like the Superbowl Multimaster a month or so ago.

[Trofo]

For anyone wondering, you can check at Leaderboard tab on the 4-3-free promo if you want to see.

Yeah, it would be better without it I have a total of 3 correct outcomes which I find very humiliating. Not for me since I know nothing about NCAA but for the guy whose predictions I copied. He wrote an article on 20 pages with analysis of all the games and got 3/15 correct? If I had results like that in sports I am following I would be begging for food in front of a mall. If I had results like that on work I would get fired day after. Good thing journalism standards are dropping fast so that is probably ok for him.

I have around 75% correct picks in football and tennis and I barley get into the green.

[leea-1334]

Hi everyone. I normally discuss this on the discussion rev thread but it seems there is one just for NCAA here.

I very happily found out that I got a USDT reward from the Sportsbet Multi Master contest. I only got 6 points but I guess that even qualifies for 4-10th prize which is 50 USDT

Nothing more to spend it on except Internationals, but I hope to get better with Sweet Sixteen. As Trofo says, good luck bastardos!

[ralle14]

I also got a $50 USDT free bet as I had 8 points but ended up losing it on a parlay that lost on the first leg while the rest of legs won which is annoying. 

Anyway, I went with mostly the overs for this round as it feels like the safest bet when most of the top-seeded teams have been dropping 70-80 points.

Out of the 8 games I only have Duke and UNC as the underdogs. Hopefully one of them hits so I could have a chance at the top 3. 

Gonzaga Bulldogs(Over 154.5) - Arkansas Razorbacks
Villanova Wildcats(Over 135.5 - Michigan Wolverines
Duke Blue Devils(Over 136.5) - Texas Tech Red Raiders
Arizona Wildcats(Over 145.5) - Houston Cougars
Purdue Boilermakers(Over 137.5) - Saint Peter's Peacocks
Kansas Jayhawks(Over 141.5) - Providence Friars
UCLA Bruins - North Carolina Tar Heels(Over 141.5)
Miami Hurricanes(Over 134.5) - Iowa State Cyclones

[buwaytress]

Well done leea, put all your freebets to good use. No point using it on anything less than 2x IMO, I know it's dumb as I throw them away on specials anyway BUT I snagged a pretty decent 3x last night so it kinda makes up and it's free anyhow.

I will actually take a serious look at some upsets. Peacocks already locked in on a Clubhouse freebet haha @6.72 with a boost, the biggest odds I can see in the remaining selection.

My selections for Sweet Sixteen:
Gonzaga Bulldogs and Under
Michigan Wolverines and Over
Duke Blue Devils and Under
Arizona Wildcats and Under
St Peter's Peacocks and Under
Kansas Jayhawks and Under
UCLA Bruins and OVer
Iowa State Cyclones and Under

[Trofo]

Well done leea, put all your freebets to good use. No point using it on anything less than 2x IMO, I know it's dumb as I throw them away on specials anyway BUT I snagged a pretty decent 3x last night so it kinda makes up and it's free anyhow.

I just realized that this is actually the best promo ever. You are almost guaranteed to get 50$ Free Bet if you just enter. Places 4-10 pay out that and places are shared. You just need to get a couple of correct picks to break that barrier.

So making my picks now and copying them from another punter. Hopefully this one is better than the one I used last time

[rdbase]

Your correct Trofo it is worth it to take part since you have nothing really to lose for putting in your picks just so many already do across the world.
Received the free bet from my place from last week and will put in my picks for round 2 tomorrow and might even put in a multi-bet on a couple of games too.
There has got to be an upset in there somewhere and just wondering if Saint Peters will continue to go on through this round.