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How to read college basketball betting lines

How To Read College Basketball Odds

Basics on Reading College Basketball Odds—Lines, Spread and Totals

College basketball offers sports bettors a wealth of games on which they can wager. During the season, you’ll find a long list of odds from the top books posted on Maddux Sports’ college basketball lines page. Of course, it’s essential that as a bettor you understand how to read these betting odds. In this article, you’ll learn all that you need to know regarding how to understand NCAA Basketball odds, including the point spread, over/under and moneyline.

The elements we’ll be looking at are often referred to by different names. The point spread is often called the spread or the line. The over/under bet is also known as the total. And the all important rotation number, which is used to identify each team that is playing, can be called the number or the rotation mark. By the way, sometimes people will lump all odds together by calling them lines or they may be referring to the spread when they ask, “What’s the line on the Duke game?” Many terms, over the years, have become interchangeable.

The good news is that although terminology may be laced with slang and some inconsistencies, when you look at college basketball lines posted online they all have the same elements and they all look pretty much the same. The primary difference is some books will list the teams for one game side-by-side and another will have one team on top of another. The main thing to remember is that the visiting club is always listed first.

Starting from the left, the first things you’ll see will be the date and time of the game and right after that will be the rotation number and the team names. The point of the number is to create order and ease in making a bet. The numbers are listed in sequence and they are consistent from book to book.

As an example if Duke is playing at North Carolina and the Blue Devils have a rotation number of 901, then the Tar Heels, who are the home team and listed second, will be 902. In the next games listed, the visiting team would be 903 and the home club 904 and so the sequencing continues.

Date/Time	Rotation Number	Team	Point Spread	MoneyLine	Total
Feb 12th	901	Duke	+2. 5	+120	152.5
8:00	902	North Carolina	-2.5	-140	152.5

Because every sportsbook uses the same numbers, it makes it easy for the bettor to locate the game and the odds at different sites and it provides a shorthand by which bettors can make their wagers over the phone or at a land-based book. To avoid confusion when betting, you don’t mention the name of the team but rather the rotation number.

These initial parts of the line, which are used to identify the game which is being bet, read from left to right—date and time of game, rotation numbers and team names. All elements to the right of this information relate to the college basketball odds for that specific game. This is where you will find the point spread, moneyline and over/under.

The reason the point spread exists is to make it more difficult for sports bettors to pick a winner. In college basketball odds, as in college football, some spreads can be huge. How big might they be? If a team such as Duke or North Carolina, both of which a powerhouses, plays a club such as Idaho State from the much weaker Big Sky Conference the spread could be 40 points or more. Without the spread, it would be much too easy to pick the winner. With the spread in place, bookies hope to even out the bets between the two teams.

This is how the point spread works. The team that is favored is listed with a minus or negative sign and a number, while the underdog is listed with a plus or positive sign and a number. The favorite has points taken away and the dog is given points. In our game where Duke is visiting North Carolina, the spread would be relatively tight since both clubs are national contenders. Duke, because they are visiting, might be listed at +2.5, which means North Carolina would be -2.5.

If you wager on the Blue Devils and they win outright or lose by less than three points, then you win. Bet on the Tar Heels and if they win by three or more points, you win. Often the point spread is listed with a ½ point faction or decimal, which ensures no matter what the score the game cannot end in a tie. If the spread is a whole number, then the contest could end in a tie and that would result in a push. A push means that all bets are off and all cash is returned to the bettors. If the spread was 2 in the Duke/North Carolina game and the final score was Duke (+2) 88 and North Carolina (-2) 90, it would be a tie and a push.

The other number you’ll see associated with the spread is the stake—how much you have to bet to realize a profit of $100. The most common stake you’ll see is listed as -110. This means that you must wager $110 to win $100. Note that the payout on a spread wager is not even money (1:1), as some will say. If it were, you would wager $110 to win $110. The odds are a bit less than even, standing at 0.90:1.00. That’s 10% less than even. Where does that 10% of your payout go? It’s taken by the book as part of their commission, which is also called vigorish or vig.

Next, to the right of the point spread, is the moneyline. Note: some books may list the moneyline separately under a moneyline tab. But often the line is part of the odds listing. This type of bet is quite different from the spread due to the fact that no points are given or taken away and the basketball team that wins outright is the one that pays off. The way the books even the playing field is they charge more for you to wager on the favorite while offering a smaller payout and charge less to bet on the dog while providing a bigger payout.

Using the Duke and North Carolina matchup, the moneyline would have the dog Blue Devils at +120 and the favorite Tar Heels at -140. This moneyline is directly connected to the spread of 2.5. With the moneyline, a club that’s posted on the plus side shows how much you’ll win when wagering $100 and when a team is listed in the negative that tells you how much you must bet to win $100. In our example, you would wager $100 on Duke (+120) to win $120 and $140 on North Carolina (-140) to win $100.
Below is a list of the corresponding point spreads as they relate to the moneyline, ranging from -2 to -10.

Point Spread	Money Line
-1	-120/+100
-2	-130/+110
-2. 5	-140/+120
-3	-155/+135
-3.5	-175/+155
-4	-200/+170
-4.5	-220/+180
-5/-5.5	-240/+190
-6	-270/+210
-6.5	-300/+220
-7	-330/+250
-7.5/-8/-8.5	-360/+280
-9/-9.5	-400/+300
-10	-450/+325

With college basketball odds the last number you will see, which is posted to the right, is the over/under. As it is with the spread, they may not be expressed as a whole number. The over/under represents the total number of points that may be scored in the game. Your wager is either on the over or the under.

In the Duke/North Carolina contest, the total would be around 152.5. If the sum of the points scored by both teams is 153 or higher, the over wins and if it is 152 or lower, then the under wins. As it is with the point spread, this number comes from handicappers working on and assessing matchups, stats, coaches and player performance.

Once odds are posted for a game, sports bettors need to decide quickly, based on research, which bets they are going to take. Early college basketball odds tend to be soft and offer more leeway than adjusted odds, which get tighter as game time gets closer. The elements discussed in this article are all common in NCAA Basketball odds listings. Know how to read each part in order to make smart and timely bets.

College Basketball Lines - How to Read College Basketball Odds

How to Read College Basketball Lines

By Loot, NCAA Basketball Handicapper, Lootmeister.com

College basketball odds are easy to understand. Becoming good at betting on college basketball is extremely difficult, but understanding how college hoops wagering operates is actually pretty basic. You don’t have to know much about math, sports betting, or even college basketball to have a solid handle on how to read the odds.

One of the main tenets of college hoops betting revolves around the point-spread. You’ll look at a game that is available for betting and notice both teams have the same number listed next to them. One team is minus that number and one team is plus that number. It will look like this:

Washington Huskies +6.5 vs. Oregon Ducks -6.5

Above is a game with a point-spread of 6. 5. Washington is +6.5 and Oregon is -6.5. A plus-sign indicates an underdog. Washington at +6.5 is getting that amount of points. Oregon at -6.5 is giving 6.5 points. For a winning bet to result on Oregon, they must win by at least 7 points. Washington at +6.5 will win the bet if they either win the game outright or don’t lose by 7 or more points. In this bet, a 80-74 Oregon win would mean Washington covered the spread since they lost by only 6 while being +6.5. If Oregon wins the game 81-74, they cover the spread because they won by 7 and were only -6.5.

When you bet on a college basketball game using a point-spread, both sides of the bet pay the same. In almost every single college hoops game, one team is either better by a little bit or by a gigantic margin. The point-spread enters the picture to even-out the game and give both sides of the bet equal betting appeal. In standard college basketball betting, it’s not so much about which team wins the game, it’s about who covers the spread.

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Remembering the following will help you understand a lot about odds in all forms of betting in sports. Minus means underdog and plus means favorite. Any team that is listed as being minus a certain number of points is always a favorite. A team with a plus-sign is always an underdog. Let’s do a little quiz to make sure you understand the point. You have picked the following teams: Oklahoma -9, UCLA -5.5, Arkansas +11, and Iowa State +4.5. Here are the scores of the four games those teams played:

Oklahoma 74, Texas A&M 69
UCLA 87, USC 82
Alabama 91, Arkansas 83
Oklahoma State 91, Iowa State 82

How did your bets do? Oklahoma was -9, a 9-point favorite, and won by only 5 points--a loss. UCLA at -4.5 was favored by 4.5 and won by 5 points--a win. Arkansas was an 11-point underdog at -11 and lost by only 8 points--a win. And lastly, Iowa State at +4.5 was a 4.5-point underdog, but lost by 9--a loss. All together, the 4 bets were 2-2.

The Money Line: Another form of odds prevalent in college basketball is the money line, which is simply a way to express odds. Look at it like this, we all know what a 2-to-1 favorite means. On a money line, that would be expressed as -200. It’s just another way to express the same concept. Not all odds land on a whole number, which the money line accounts for. They’re used a few different ways in college basketball betting. One of the main ways is when you bet a team on the money line. That means you are simply betting on a team to win the game without a point-spread. To win a money line bet, the team you bet must simply win the game. Since the point-spread is obsolete in money line betting, something else needs to accommodate for the difference in quality of the two teams that are playing. Let’s look at an example:

North Carolina -200 vs. North Carolina State +180

Above, you see a money line bet. Remember in point-spreads how a plus-sign is always an underdog, while a minus-sign is always an underdog? So, North Carolina (-200) is a favorite, with North Carolina State an underdog at +180. When it comes to money lines, lock down the following thought and you will always understand how they work: A plus-sign is how much you win if you bet $100 and a minus-sign is how much you must bet in order to win $100.

North Carolina at +200 means you must bet $200 for every $100 you want to win. North Carolina State at +180 means you win $180 for every $100 you bet. Keep in mind that $100 is just used as a reference point in money lines to make it easier to understand. You can naturally bet any amount you wish.

Money line bets are a part of almost every form of college basketball betting, even standard point-spread bets. When we pick a team against-the-spread, we are usually doing so on a -110 betting line, meaning we bet $110 for every $100 we hope to win. It’s an inescapable part of college basketball and it’s something any prospective bettor should have down-pat before making wagers.

Totals: When you see a college hoops game that is available for betting, you will usually see a number listed, which is called a “total.” It’s a projected final combined score of both teams posted by the bookie. You then can pick if the combined score of the game will go “over” or “under” that number. Here is an example:

San Diego State Aztecs vs. Kansas Jayhawks, Total: 153

The above is a total you may see in a college basketball bet. An “over” bet means you think the combined total score of both teams will surpass 153. A bet on the “under” means you suspect the total combined score of both teams will be below 153. And just like when betting on a team to beat the point-spread, we have to bet a little more than we stand to win, with totals-betting usually taking place on a -110 line, meaning we bet $110 for every $100 we hope to win.

Again, getting good at betting college basketball is a the hard part. The numbers and concepts of the betting may seem foreign at first, but even the slowest learners are never that far from having the nuts and bolts of college hoops betting down-pat.

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Key Points for Teaching School Students

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The rules of basketball are quite simple, but for schoolchildren and novice players, they may seem confusing and incomprehensible. The rules of 3, 5, 8, 24 seconds, double dribbling, fouls and much more make basketball a difficult sport, although in fact it is not, the main thing is to present the material correctly to students, because to play at school level, it will be enough to explain to them the most important thing. It is also worth noting that training will be effective with the use of practical exercises.

For better assimilation of the rules by schoolchildren, first tell about them in various variations, using the word method, visualization (for example, showing video fragments) and, of course, practical exercises. Interest students, and for this, it is best to briefly talk about the history of this sport.

A brief history of the creation and development of basketball

Basketball as a sport was invented by James Naismith, a college teacher in Massachusetts. It happened in 1891 year. Naismith hung two fruit baskets from two railings and took a soccer ball, explaining to the students that they need to throw it into the basket, whose team hit the most times, they won.

This game appealed to many, and quickly spread to colleges in the United States of America. Basketball was gaining popularity around the world at an incredible pace, professional leagues were created, international tournaments were held, and in 1936 the game was included in the number of Olympic sports.

Today the most popular, famous and profitable basketball league in the world is the NBA (USA). The most famous players of this sport are Mile Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Andrei Kirilenko, Dwayne Wade, Scottie Pippen, Magic Johnson.

More information - The history of basketball: how the game originated and developed

Basic rules of basketball

The goal of the game of basketball is to throw the ball into the ring, whose team will score more points, is declared the winner. The game takes place on a rectangular court, and depending on where the ball was thrown into the basket from, the number of points scored (2 or 3) will depend.

Each team consists of 12 basketball players, and only 5 can be on the field at the same time (the number of substitutions is not limited). In basketball, players are divided into the following roles:

Point guard
Shooting guard
Center
Light Forward
Power or heavy forward

During the game, basketball players of all positions can move around the court at their discretion.

Basketball court has the shape of a rectangle measuring 28 by 15 meters. The middle line divides the court into two halves, in the center of which there is a small circle, the game starts from this place (the referee throws the ball into the air, and one player from each team tries to take possession of it). The height of the ring is 3.05 meters. Near each of the rings there is an arc (semicircle) with a radius of 6.75 m (according to the FIBA standard), which is a projection of the center of the basket. At a distance of 5.80 m from the inside edge of the end line is the free-throw line, which has a length of 3.60 m.

The game is divided into 4 equal periods of 10 minutes each (in the NBA, a half is 12 minutes long). There is a 15 minute break between the 2nd and 3rd quarters.

Basketball score:

3 points: if the ball hits the hoop from outside the arc;
2 points: if the ball is thrown within the arc;
1 point: 1 point is awarded for each successful free throw.

The winning side in basketball is determined very simply: whoever scores more points is the winner. In case of fixing a draw, an additional period of 5 minutes is added.

Rules of 3, 5, 8 and 24 seconds in basketball

In yard basketball, and even at the school level, rules related to seconds are often ignored. There is nothing complicated here, what each of them means, we will analyze right now.

3-Second Rule: An attacking player must not be in the opponent's penalty area for more than three seconds without the ball. If the attacking player controls the ball in the three-second zone for more than 3 seconds, then this is not a violation.
5-Second Rule: This is the amount of time a basketball player is allowed to put the ball into play, take a free throw or free throw. The countdown starts from the moment when the player took the ball in his hands.
8 Second Rule: Once the attacking side has possession of the ball in their own half of the field, they have 8 seconds to advance the ball into the opponent's half of the field. If the team has not crossed the middle line within the set time, according to the rules, the ball is given to the opponent.
24 second rule: the team has 24 seconds to attack, and if during this time the ball has not touched the edge of the opponent's basket or has not entered it, then the defending side takes possession of the ball. This rule was first applied in 1954. It was introduced to prevent attacking teams from wasting time with endless possession of the ball

Overview of the basic rules of the game of basketball: fixing the material

And now, to consolidate the material, let's look at the rules of the game of basketball briefly point by point (the most basic is highlighted):

At the same time, 5 players can be on the field from each side (the total number of players in a team is 12, the number of substitutions is not limited).
The game consists of four periods, each lasting 10 minutes (between the second and third half there is a break for rest of 15 minutes).
Basketball is only allowed to be played with hands. The ball can be dribbled exclusively by dribbling, there should not be any runs (a run is a basketball player taking more than two steps without dribbling). If a player dribbles and then stops, he is not allowed to take any more steps.
Each team has 24 seconds to attack. During this period of time allotted by the rules, the attacking side must hit the ring with the ball, or at least the ball must touch the edge of the basket.
Players are prohibited from being without the ball in the three-second zone for more than 3 seconds.
Violations in basketball are: running, double dribbling, stopping and then resuming dribbling, returning the ball to your own half of the field from the opponent's half.
Points are awarded for each hit of the ball in the ring: 2 points - within the arc, 3 points - outside the arc, 1 point - free throw.
The game counts the number of fouls (there are personal and team). Once a side has scored 5 team fouls in one quarter, the referee will award two free throws for each subsequent foul.
If a player has scored 5 personal fouls in a match, he is sent off and replaced by a substitute.

Summing up

The rules of basketball were reviewed in brief, the main points of the game were highlighted, which will be enough for teaching schoolchildren and beginner basketball players. Little information was provided about fouls and violations, as well as the positions of the players, but if all this is included, then you will no longer have a summary of the rules, but a detailed version.

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Basketball court dimensions in meters (FIBA and NBA standard)

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The size of the basketball court depends on the level of the competition, the governing organization, and the age of the students. Often, for training sessions or fights in amateur tournaments, different sizes of the playing court are used, but also in basketball there are officially established standard sizes of the field.

FIBA and NBA basketball court sizes0022 28 by 15 meters

As for amateur basketball, the size of the fields can be completely different:

For schools and universities: 21-28 m long, 12-15 m wide
Mini basketball (for children under 12) - 17×12 meters

Basketball court markings

All lines of the field must be 5 cm wide in white. The playing area is limited by the side and front lines. The middle line divides the court in half into equal parts. In the center of the middle line there is a circle with a diameter of 3.6 m (r - 1.8 m), where a dropped ball is played before the start of each period.

How many periods in basketball: the difference in FIBA and NBA

There is an arc near each ring at a distance of 6.75 m from the end line. Balls thrown into the basket outside it bring 3 points, everything inside the arc - 2 points.

Basketball's free throw area is marked by a 3.6m line 5.8m from the endline and 4.6m from the hoop.

See picture of a basketball court with all lines and dimensions.

Differences in the rules for the size and layout of the site in the NBA and FIBA

Playground	FIBA size	NBA size
Length (meters)	28	28.65
Width (meters)	15	15.24
Ring height (m)	3.05	3.05
Center circle diameter (m)	3.60	3.60
3 points line (distance from the basket in meters)	6.75	7.24
Distance from the basket to the free throw line (m)	4.60	4.67
Court line width (cm)	5	5

The First Basketball Court Dimensions: A Brief History

The first basketball court was limited to the size of the college gym it was located in. That hall measured 54 by 35 feet (16.45 × 10.66 meters).

In 1891, James Naismith, a physical education teacher at Springsfield College in Massachusetts, invented a new game he later called basketball. At the first stages of the formation of a newly-fledged sport, peach baskets were used instead of rings, and in its first 13 rules, the creator did not indicate the size of the site. As basketball grew in popularity, it became necessary to standardize the size of the field. At 19In 24, the rules established the maximum size of the site - 28.65 by 15.24 m and the minimum - 18 by 9 meters. The NBA still has such rules for the size of the court (28.65 by 15.24 meters), and FIBA eventually set its own standard - 28 × 15 meters.

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