The Madness is On - Up to $300 til Sunday!
Money Madness
Everyone points to the Super Bowl as being the big daddy of all moneyed sporting events. However, even considering the colossal economic impact it has on the U.S. economy, it is a poor second to the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.
Ya wanna talk money? Forget the pros.
From a wagering point of view, what begins Thursday at 11:55am ET is as if an entire NFL football season was crammed into sixteen days. Last March, Nevada bettors wagered more than $228 million on the tournament and with online and office pools, hundreds of millions, if not billions more…
The Madness has arrived!
March Madness is here and betED.com is the place to be for basketball betting - from the opening round to the Sweet 16, from the Elite Eight to the Final Four.
betED will have daily updated game and first-half lines for the 2008 NCAA Tournament, as well as daily odds for the NIT and the new CBI tournaments.
2008 NCAA Tournament
Opening-round action of the 2008 NCAA Tournament ramps up Thursday with two of the four No. 1 seeds playing their first games. First, the Big 12 champion Kansas Jayhawks face the No. 16 Portland State Vikings (12:25 ET, CBS). Then, the No. 1 UCLA Bruins, winners of the Pac-10 Tournament, take on the No. 16 Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils (9:55 pm ET, CBS).
Formula 1 in Gear
The Formula 1 season is underway and betED.com is giving auto-racing betting fans a chance to pick the winner of the 2008 Formula 1 Drivers Championship. Lewis Hamilton is the favorite at -150 moneyline odds. Hamilton didn’t waste any time establishing himself as the driver to beat, winning the opening race, the Australian Grand Prix, last Sunday.
Western Hoops Battle
Two of the tops teams in the NBA’s Western Conference face off Saturday night when they Houston Rockets visit the Phoenix Suns (10 pm ET, NBATV). The Rockets were riding a 23-game winning streak into Tuesday’s showdown with the East-leading Boston Celtics, and currently occupy first place in the West. The Suns are one game back of the LA Lakers in the Pacific division.
