Big second half lifts Memphis past North Texas
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03/16/2007 - New Orleans, LA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Chris Douglas-Roberts scored 16 points and Andre Allen added 14, as Memphis pulled away in the second half to earn a 73-58 victory over North Texas in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
Robert Dozier chipped in 11 points, seven rebounds and five blocked shots, while Joey Dorsey contributed nine points and 15 boards for the Tigers (31-3), who are the second seed in the South Region and own the nation's longest winning streak at 23 games.
Memphis, which hasn't lost since December 20 at Arizona, will next take on the winner of the Nevada/Creighton game in the second round on Sunday.
The Tigers were a top seed in last year's NCAA Tournament and advanced all the way to the regional final before losing to eventual national runner-up UCLA.
Keith Wooden scored 16 points and Calvin Watson netted 13 for North Texas (23-11), which won the Sun Belt Tournament to earn its second NCAA Tournament bid. The Mean Green's inaugural NCAA appearance came way back in 1988 and resulted in an 83-65 first-round loss to North Carolina.
Spokane, WA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Craig Bradshaw scored 24 points and pulled down six rebounds as Winthrop held off a late rally by Notre Dame to upset the Fighting Irish, 74-64, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Torrell Martin p
<< Butler out 7-10 days for Wizards
Washington, DC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Washington Wizards forward Caron Butler
will be sidelined for at least a week with a left knee contusion.
Butler underwent an MRI exam on Thursday that came back negative and revealed
no structural dam
<< Barcelona try to halt road woes at Recreativo
Huelva, Spain (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Barcelona has not won a road contest in La
Liga since November 19, and will need to remedy that problem if the club is to
capture its third consecutive league title.
Frank Rijkaard's side will try to snap
<< Chiefs agree to terms with Ron Edwards
Kansas City, MO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Kansas City Chiefs announced on
Friday that the team has agreed to terms on a four-year contract with
defensive lineman Ron Edwards.
The 27-year-old Edwards started all 16 games last
<< Remaining schedule not easy for Golden State
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Golden State Warriors, who have not advanced to the
postseason since 1994, are tied with the Los Angeles Clippers for the eighth
and final playoff berth in the Western Conference with 16 games left on their
schedul
Manchester, England (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - With nine games to play in the Premiership season, Manchester United owns a six-point lead over second-placed Chelsea, and faces a tough test against fifth-placed Bolton on Saturday at Old Traffor
UNLV slips past Georgia Tech and into second round >>
Chicago, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Wendell White poured in 19 points and grabbed
eight rebounds as UNLV slipped past Georgia Tech, 67-63, in the first round of
the NCAA Tournament.
Michael Umeh also scored 19 points, including 4-of-8 from th
Virginia pounds Albany in tourney opener >>
Columbus, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - J.R. Reynolds netted 28 points and grabbed
seven rebounds, as Virginia rolled past Albany, 84-57, in the first round of
the South Region of the NCAA Tournament at Nationwide Arena.
Sean Singletary added
PSV, Ajax renew acquaintances >>
Eindhoven, Holland (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The best rivalry in the Eredivisie
will be renewed on Sunday at Philipsstadion as league-leaders PSV host third-
placed Ajax.
PSV brought a 1-0 win back to Eindhoven in the first meeting between
Lofton, Vols rout Long Beach State >>
Columbus, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Chris Lofton dropped in 25 points as Tennessee
easily defeated Long Beach State, 121-86, in the first round of the South
Region of the NCAA Tournament at Nationwide Arena.
JaJuan Smith added 24 points an
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Who Makes the Sportsbook Betting Lines?
Las Vegas Sports Consultants (LVSC) is the world’s premier oddsmaking company and the most respected authority on making the lines. Mike Seba is a Senior Oddsmaker at LVSC and has been making lines for the last six years. In our extended interview, Seba explained that there are 4-5 oddsmakers assigned to make lines for each of the major sports (pro & college football and basketball; MLB, NHL, boxing, golf). Each of these oddsmakers bring unique opinions, strengths and weaknesses to the process. Oddsmakers at LVSC are professional sports junkies who love what they do and would probably do it for nothing if you asked them, but they do get paid for it. By necessity their approach is very research-oriented and concise, since with millions of dollars at risk there is little margin for error.
“You either have a passion for it or you don’t,” Seba said.
“The #1 thing for us is to make a line for each game that creates good two-way action. We do this by drawing from past experiences and applying them to current situations. People think it’s much more complicated, but it’s not. “What are the Football Betting Lines Trying to Accomplish?
There is a common misconception that point spreads represent the oddsmakers’ prediction of how many points the favorite will win by. That is not the case at all – their intent is NOT to evenly split the ATS result between the teams; rather, their goal is to attract equal betting action on both sides. Stated another way, they want to create a line that half the people find appealing to bet one way while the other half find it appealing to bet the other way (known as ‘dividing the action’).Divided action means the sportsbook is guaranteed a profit on the game because of the fee charged to the bettor (called juice or vig – typically $11 bet to win $10).
How the Opening Line Is Made
The opening line is the first line created by the oddsmakers, which is then sent out to sportsbooks. Of course there is an entire method to the madness on how the opening line is created. Seba explained that it all starts with each oddsmaker creating a line on each game based upon their own personal approach. This usually includes having up-to-date power ratings on each team.Power ratings are the oddsmaker’s value of each team and are used as a guide to calculate a "preliminary" pointspread on an upcoming game. The power ratings are adjusted after each game a team plays. Examples of non-game factors that would require an adjustment to a team's power rating are key player injuries and player trades.
Once a game’s power rating based pointspread is determined, the oddsmaker will make adjustments to that line after considering each team's most recent games played and previous games played against that opponent. Also, adjustments are made after reading each team’s local newspapers to get a sense of what the coaches & players are thinking going into the game.Since the oddsmaker’s ultimate goal is equally dividing the sports betting action, public perception and sportsbook betting patterns must be taken into account. For example, the public might have heavy betting interest week after week on a popular college football betting team such as USC. If an oddsmaker comes up with a preliminary line of USC -7, then an adjustment up to -7.5 or -8 would be made in response to the public’s expected USC bias.
The last step in the line-making process for each oddsmaker is taking one final look to determine whether or not the line "feels right." This is where common sense and past experience with how games are bet enters into the picture.A round-table discussion among the 4-5 oddsmakers involved in making the line for each sport is then conducted and a consensus line is decided upon by the Odds Director before it is released to the sportsbooks. Of the 4-5 oddsmakers, generally the 2 most respected opinions are weighed more heavily by the Odds Director before he decides on the final line.
Why Sports Betting Lines Change
Once the opening line is released by LVSC, the individual sportsbooks decide if they want to make any adjustments before offering it to the public. Reasons for such adjustments include:Experts working for the individual books having a strong opinion on the game
Individual books having players who consistently bet with certain tendencies (such as an extreme bias toward favorites or toward a certain popular team like USC)The purpose of these adjustments, like all line adjustments, is to more equally divide the betting action.
Once betting begins, sportsbooks can adjust the line at any time. In doing so they attempt to make more attractive the team that is getting less action. By moving the line, sportsbooks can influence how the public bets on a particular game.For example, if the pointspread on a game is 7 and most of the money is coming in on the underdog (taking the +7), sportsbooks will then move the number down to 6 ½ to try and attract money on the favorite.
Moving the line is the oddsmaker's effort to balance betting action, and often times such moves can have a major impact on a bettor’s decision. Oddsmakers can also change the line depending on various event-related factors such as player injuries or weather. Obviously, if the line comes out a week ahead of the event (which is the case in football), there is much that could happen during the week leading up to the event that could affect the line. Oddsmakers have to determine if any changes are necessary and send out an "adjusted line."“The main objective is that our clients get equal action on both sides,” Seba said. “We’re not trying to pick the team that covers the spread, we’re trying to make it a coin flip, a tough decision (for the bettor). If we’ve done that, we’ve done our job.”
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