The 14-seed Colgate Raiders (14-1) take on the 3-seed Arkansas Razorbacks (22-6) in an NCAA South Region First Round Game Friday, March 1 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The tip-off is scheduled for 12:45 p.m. ET and the game will broadcast on truTV.
Below, we look at the early March Madness Round 1 matchup Colgate-Arkansas odds and lines. Will one of these teams end up as this year’s National Champion? Don’t forget to check out all of the teams’ March Madness odds.
Colgate heads to Indy as champions of the Patriot League. The Raiders didn’t begin their season until Jan. 2. They played Army Jan. 2 and Jan. 3, losing the second of those games; and CU hasn’t lost since.
The Raiders take good care of the basketball while playing a fast tempo. Three-hundred-and-forty-seven teams have played NCAA-I basketball this winter; Colgate has averaged more points per game (86.3) than 345 of them.
Senior guard play leads the way for the Raiders: G Jordan Burns, G Jack Ferguson, and G Nelly Cummings—all seniors—are CU’s top three scorers. Burns is the fifth-leading scorer in the Patriot League (17.0 points per game) and the circuit’s top assist distributor (5.3 per game).
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Arkansas is a strong defensive squad despite playing at a top-20 pace. The Razorbacks are 9-1 overall over their last 10 games—with an SEC tourney loss after a nine-game winning streak—and over those 10 games, they’ve held opposing shooters to a 40.4% mark from the field.
The Razorbacks carry a couple of betting trends into the brackets. Arkansas is 8-2 against the spread over its last 10 games. In the team’s last seven games, the Under is 5-2.
Colgate vs. Arkansas: Odds, spread and lines
Odds via BetMGM; access USA TODAY Sports’ betting odds for a full list. Lines last updated Tuesday at 12:57 a.m. ET.
- Money line: Colgate +360 (bet $100 to win $360) | Arkansas -500 (bet $500 to win $100)
- Against the spread/ATS: Colgate +9 (-110) | Arkansas -9 (-110)
- Over/Under: 162.5 (O: -110 | U: -110)
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