The first round of the 2021 March Madness Tournament saw quite a few upsets, shaking up the NCAA Tournament, making plenty of bet slips losers and blowing up March Madness Brackets around the country – mine was toast after the first game. Ouch.
While a painful, and expensive, reminder on some of them, here were the upsets during the first round of the Tournament:
- No. 15 seed Oral Roberts defeated No. 2 seed Ohio State 75-72 in OT
- No. 11 seed Syracuse bested No. 6 seed San Diego State 78-62
- No. 13 seed North Texas took out No. 4 seed Purdue 78-69 in OT
- No. 12 seed Oregon State beat No. 5 seed Tennessee 70-56
- No. 10 seed Rutgers outlasted No. 7 seed Clemson 60-56
- No. 13 seed Ohio beat No. 4 seed Virginia 62-58
- No. 10 seed Maryland beat No. 7 seed UConn 63-54
- No. 14 seed Abilene Christian snuck by No. 3 seed Texas 53-52
Of those games, only Rutgers, a seed underdog thus their inclusion here, was a money line favorite at BetMGM Sportsbook to win their matchup. The rest were all money line and seed underdogs, with Oral Roberts (+900 – bet $100 to profit $900) the biggest ‘dog of them all to pull a massive upset.
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While it would have been wonderful — and darn near impossible — to predict all of those upsets, what would you have profited if you bet $100 on each of those underdog money lines?
- Oral Roberts (+900): $900 profit
- Syracuse (+135): $135 profit
- North Texas (+265): $265 profit
- Oregon State (+340): $340 profit
- Rutgers (-125): $80 profit
- Ohio (+260): $260 profit
- Abilene Christian (+310): $310 profit
BetMGM Sportsbook would have paid out $3,090 worth of winning bet slips, good for a healthy $2,290 profit.
Now what if you ran with a parlay bet focused on all of those underdogs winning? A $1 parlay bet would have profited a massive $10,026.47.
Or, if you’re of the go-big-or-go-home mentality and threw a $100 at that same parlay, you’d have profited a cool $1,002,702.89. Not a bad first-round payday, huh?
Now, to be fair, everyone would have told you that you just threw your money away making such a wild bet… please remember to gamble responsibly.
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