The No. 11 Loyola-Chicago Ramblers are 6-1 straight up and 7-0 against the spread in their last seven games as a betting underdog including a current 3-0 SU and ATS run as one through the NCAA tournament. The Ramblers will try to advance into the Final Four with another upset win facing the No. 9 Kansas State Wildcats.
NCAA tournament odds 2018: Betting lines and trends for Saturday’s Elite Eight games
The Loyola-Chicago Ramblers and Florida State Seminoles look to keep cashing in as underdogs on the March Madness betting lines on Saturday night.
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Loyola-Chicago opened as a 1-point underdog against Kansas State at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com. All three of the Ramblers’ upset wins have come down to the wire with a two-point win over No. 6 Miami followed by back-to-back one-point wins over No. 3 Tennessee and No. 7 Nevada.
In addition to being tight games, all of Loyola-Chicago’s games have been low scoring as well as the team has seen the total go UNDER in each of its last seven games as an underdog.
Kansas State is peaking at the right time in this NCAA tournament, picking up upset wins as 2-point underdogs against No. 8 Creighton in the Round of 64 and 5-point underdogs against No. 5 Kentucky in the Sweet 16. The UNDER is 11-4-1 over Kansas State’s last 16 games per the OddsShark College Basketball Database and the total for Saturday’s game against Loyola-Chicago is set at 157 points.
The No. 9 Florida State Seminoles entered March Madness in the midst of a 3-5 SU and 1-7 ATS slump. You wouldn’t know it from watching this team in the postseason as the Seminoles are on a 3-0 SU and ATS run, knocking off No. 1 Xavier as a 5.5-point underdog and No. 4 Gonzaga as a 6-point underdog. Florida State should feel right in its comfort zone as a 4.5-point underdog on Saturday against Michigan.
The No. 3 Michigan Wolverines are the only team on Saturday’s betting board that didn’t get to this point with a string of upsets. The Wolverines earned their 3-seed with a win in the Big 12 Tournament and are 12-0 SU and 10-2 ATS over their last 12 games. Michigan needed a buzzer-beater to top No. 6 Houston in the Round of 32 but has been thoroughly dominant in its other two games with a 61-47 win over No. 14 Montana and a 99-72 win over No. 7 Texas A&M.
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