March Madness Betting

If you are interested in a March Madness betting wager then we believe you should think about joining BetUS Sportsbook. That top USA betting online sportsbook has all conceivable betting lines on the NCAA March Madness tournament.

But hang on a minute! What are the betting odds that you know exactly what all this March Madness fuss is about? I wouldn’t wager that you do. Well it’s a good old American USA betting frenzy. It’s a gambling carnival. It’s a sporting festival. Read on, we explain all about March Madness.

March Madness is the catchall name for a festival of national college basketball tournaments. But there is a purpose to this National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) extravaganza and that is to find the champion team of the nation, in both the boys and girls categories.

March Madness starts, unsurprisingly, in March and lasts a month ending in early April. At its culmination the sixty five teams for the men and the sixty four teams for the ladies have been whittled down the USA national basketball champions in the college arena.

These 65 (or 64 for women) are then split into four groups by location and these four groups initially have a tournament to decide which teams progress to the next stage. At this stage the teams are seeded from 1 to 16 in each of their locational bases. The mathematicians among you will realise that one group for the men's must have 17 teams (as 65 does not exactly split by 4!).

Now, if you are looking to have a wager on March Madness then before you dive into the betting jungle it is worth noting that the higher seeds have a much better statistical record historically than the unfancied teams. The point being this is not a tournament for long shots.

The college basketball teams play each other in a knockout tournament and the teams are reduced to just 16 remaining in the March Madness national championships. Those 16 teams play each other until just four remain. The relevant point of the Final Four is that they are the four champions of the four national areas. These college basketball teams, from the four different locations, then come together to find the national champion.

The Final Four are effectively at the semi-final point. It is a straight knockout tournament to find the respective national college basketball champions of the men’s and women’s divisions.

While March Madness starts in March, it actually ends in April but the phrase 'March and April Madness' doesn’t trip off the tongue quite as neatly.

The tournament itself is also a national betting competition, with lines available on everything from the outright winners of the tournament, the winners of each individual basketball game to the number of points being scored in a game and so many more gambling opportunities. So if you are interested in getting involved with some quite sane March Madness betting and gambling, we advise you take a look at the lines and odds available at BetUS Online Sportsbook.