College Basketball Odds: Dartmouth vs. Sacred Heart
| Dartmouth Odds | +3.5 |
| Sacred Heart Odds | -3.5 |
| Over/Under | 138.5 |
| Date | Thursday, Dec. 21 |
| Time | 11:30 a.m. ET |
| Channel | NEC Front Row |
*College basketball odds as of Thursday morning
The college basketball odds board for Thursday is a whopper.
There are 69 lined games as of the time of writing, starting at 11:30 a.m. ET and running throughout the afternoon until just shy of midnight.
As is typically the case, the first game of the day — Dartmouth vs. Sacred Heart — doesn’t appear to be anything to write home about as casual bettors are unlikely to have much interest in a game between teams that have combined for eight total wins.
On the other hand, the wiseguys are already taking market-moving positions on both the spread and over/under.
College Basketball Prediction: Dartmouth vs. Sacred Heart
The Dartmouth vs. Sacred Heart spread is listed at Pioneers -3.5.
While not a massive move, this line opened at -2.5 before sharps steamed the favorite, leaving oddsmakers little choice but to react by stretching the price to the latest consensus of -3.5, with some sportsbooks moving even more aggressively to -4.5.
Steam refers to sudden, uniform line movement across the market that is often the result of bettors with the resources and respect to move odds getting down on the same side of the same game at multiple sportsbooks, all at once.
The story is quite similar with the over/under.
After posting at 137, an influx of action from professional bettors came in on the over, driving the number to 138.5.
PRO Report Prediction: Sacred Heart -3.5 | Over 138.5
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