Patrick Everson recaps the first two rounds of the 2024 Men's NCAA Tournament, detailing how the books got crushed, as favorites rolled through the weekend.
Most of the first two days of the NCAA Tournament went well for the sportsbooks and not quite so well for the public betting masses. But once James Madison — a very popular underdog — notched its 72-61 upset of Wisconsin on Friday night, the tide began to turn in the March Madness odds market. 'Saturday was our worst day of the year,' said Zachary Lucas, TwinSpires Sportsbook director of retail sports.
Put Up Your Dukes James Madison was a 5.5-point underdog to No. 5 seed Wisconsin, but everybody and their mother was on the Dukes — on the point spread and to pull the outright moneyline upset. Which, as noted above, JMU did with a 72-61 win in Friday night’s final game. The upset came in the wake of No. 13 seed Yale’s shocking 78-76 victory over No. 4 seed Auburn, a 13.5-point favorite. Those two results were a dichotomy of BetMGM Nevada’s Friday.
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