2024 March Insanity predictions – How you can wager the boys’s Elite 8 video games on Saturday

And identical to that, we’re right down to the Elite 8 within the males’s NCAA match. So what are the bets to make?

Listed here are our specialists Jeff Borzello, Tyler Fulghum and Mackenzie Kraemer with extra on the bets they like most.

Alabama -3.5 vs. Clemson (-155). Clemson’s NCAA match opponents have run extremely chilly from 3, a few of it as a result of Tigers’ protection and a few attributable to variance. However a mixed 14-for-75 (18.7%) in opposition to a crew that allowed ACC opponents to shoot 35.6% from 3 feels prefer it might regress to the imply in some unspecified time in the future — and the Tigers have additionally allowed at the least 9 3-pointers in eight of their 11 losses. If there is a crew to check Clemson deep, it is Alabama, which ranks within the top-25 nationally in 3-point price and 3-point proportion. — Borzello

Alabama vs. Clemson OVER 164.5. That is the bottom whole in an Alabama recreation in over a month. Clemson opponents have shot simply 19% from three within the match, however do not anticipate Alabama to proceed that cold-shooting development. — Kraemer

Alabama vs. Clemson (+130). The Tide must play at tempo and make threes to win. Their reliance on making threes whereas not defending at a excessive degree are regarding I believe Clemson will be capable of get their tempo (backside 100 in nation) because it’s simpler to decelerate a recreation than pace it up. PJ Corridor’s presence might be big attempting to use the weak inside protection of the Tide. The Tigers have rolled the tide earlier this yr in Tuscaloosa and assume they’ll do it once more. — Cuff

UConn -8.5 vs. Illinois (-110). The Huskies are simply too good proper now. Illinois has been very spectacular on this match however UConn has gained its three video games by a mean of just about 30 factors per recreation. Search for Illinois’ struggles on the free throw line to harm them on this matchup. — Fulghum

UConn vs. Illinois OVER 154.5 (-115). Merely put, it is the 2 greatest offenses within the nation. Each groups will look to get factors on the break, each groups will look to attain shortly in opposition to unsettled defenses, and each groups had lapses on Thursday night time getting again to defend in transition. — Borzello