Sixteen college programs will decide their fate as the March Madness bracket Round of 32 begins on Saturday.
We’ve used a strategy of traditional college basketball picks along with some player props to construct a pair of parlay cards for the Saturday March Madness slate.
Join me as I dig into the March Madness odds and share my best March Madness picks, plus two free parlay tickets for Saturday, March 23.
Round 2 March Madness Parlays
- Dayton TT u70.5 + A.J. Hoggard 1+ made 3s + J. Gohlke u13.5 points (+548 at FanDuel)
- Oregon +5 + Iowa State -6.5 + TEN/TEX u146.5 (+590 at DraftKings)
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Best Round 2 parlay picks
Dayton team total Under 70.5
A.J. Hoggard 1+ made 3s
Jack Gohlke Under 13.5 points
The first leg of our card features a West Region matchup between the Dayton Flyers and Arizona Wildcats. Dayton is one of the top 3-point shooting teams nationally. Still, the Flyers will have difficulties clearing their 70.5-point team total against the above-average Wildcats 3-point shooting stop unit.
Arizona boasts a Top 10 defense and has surrendered 70.5 points or fewer in their last five. Dayton shot 42% from beyond the arc in their opening-round victory over Nevada but scored 63 points.
The Flyers struggled to score inside Thursday night and will struggle inside against the longer Arizona defenders. That will force Dayton to get their buckets from downtown — they will, but they won’t make anywhere near the 42% they drained against Nevada.
We remain in the West for the second leg of our card and will look for Michigan State Spartans guard A.J. Hoggard to drain 1+ triple against the North Carolina Tar Heels.
Hoggard is having a solid senior campaign and averages 30 minutes per night for Sparty. He went 1-2 from beyond the arc in the Spartans' first-round tilt against Mississippi State and has made one three-pointer in five of his past seven.
North Carolina defends the arc at an elite level. Still, Hoggard has been the beneficiary of some double-teaming of teammate Tyson Walker, and Hoggard has had some wide-open looks. He’ll get those looks again on Saturday and drain at least one triple.
Finally, our last leg is a scoring prop from the South Region matchup between the Oakland Golden Grizzlies and NC State Wolfpack. Golden Grizzlies' senior guard Jack Gohlke knocked down 10 triples in their upset win over Kentucky, but he won’t go Over 13.5 points Saturday.
Gohlke has cleared his scoring prop of 13.5 points in three of his past five. Thursday night’s hero rarely shoots anything but the 3-ball, and he’s up against an NC State perimeter defense, allowing 7.7 made 3s per contest.
Oregon +5
Iowa State -6.5
TEN/TEX Under 146.5
The first leg of our three-leg parlay is from the Midwest Region and is an interesting matchup between the Oregon Ducks and Creighton Blue Jays.
The Ducks are coming off a convincing victory over South Carolina, and winning the Pac-12 tourney has given Oregon some confidence entering this battle. They’ve covered the spread in their last three as the underdog and were 5-3-0 ATS on neutral courts.
Creighton has been solid through much of this season — they were bounced early in the Big East tourney and have covered the spread in eight of their last 10, but its 2-3-0 ATS record on neutral courts has me firmly on Oregon.
Our second leg is from the East Region, with the heavily favored Iowa State Cyclones taking on the Washington State Cougars. Iowa State scores more points from turnovers than any other D1 program and has won four straight ball games. They covered each of those tilts while covering the spread in four of their seven neutral-court matchups.
Washington State is coming off an excellent upset victory over Drake, but they’ve covered the spread in six of their last 10 and went 4-3-0 ATS on neutral courts. The Cougars don’t have the offense to keep pace with the Cyclones; they have the occasional lousy turnover night on the road, and I see Iowa State winning this one comfortably.
We head back to the Midwest Region, and our third leg expects the Tennessee Volunteers' stop unit to come through big time against the Texas Longhorns. The Vols' defense is stout — they boast the SEC’s second-best defense in several categories.
They’ll meet a Texas offense that can score the rock, but they won’t beat Tennessee on the boards, and the Vols 3-point defense is tough. The Longhorns have snipers, but Tennessee is longer on the perimeter. They’re 3-7-0 to the Under in their last 10, and this one stays Under the total.
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