All eyes will be focused on Dayton for the start of the NCAA Tournament and the First Four games. But those two matchups are just a small piece of the Tuesday college basketball slate with other postseason tournaments getting underway. The fight for the 69th best team in the country is contested in the NIT Tournament with 10 first round games at campus sites.
And just in case you needed more college hoops to wager on, the College Basketball Invitational and the CollegeInsider.com Tournament both have games on the docket. Winning a postseason game is a plus for any program, winning a game in the NCAA Tournament is the ultimate. No matter the tournament the stakes are always higher and the teams usually better, and that leads to closer games and tighter point spreads.
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College Basketball Schedule for Tuesday, March 19, 2019
NCAA First Four
Prairie View A&M vs. Fairleigh Dickinson, 6:40 p.m. ET (truTV)
Temple vs. Belmont, 9:10 p.m. ET (truTV)
NIT First Round
Hofstra at NC State, 7 p.m. ET (ESPN2)
Lipscomb at Davidson, 7 p.m. ET (ESPN3)
Campbell at UNC Greensboro, 7 p.m. ET (ESPN3)
St. Francis (PA) at Indiana, 7 p.m. ET (ESPN)
Wright State at Clemson, 7 p.m. ET (ESPNU)
San Diego at Memphis, 8 p.m. ET (ESPN3)
South Dakota State at Texas, 9 p.m. ET (ESPN)
Loyola-Chicago at Creighton, 9 p.m. ET (ESPNU)
Arkansas at Providence, 9 p.m. ET (ESPN2)
Dayton at Colorado, 11 p.m. ET (ESPN2)
CBI First Round
CSU Northridge at Utah Valley, 9 p.m. ET
CIT First Round
IUPUI at Marshall, 7 p.m. ET
Cornell at Robert Morris, 7 p.m. ET
Tuesday Best Bets
Prairie View A&M vs. Fairleigh Dickinson, 6:40 p.m. ET (truTV)
Talk about teams on a roll, Prairie View A&M might just be the hottest team entering the Tournament. The Panthers opened the season with a win over Santa Clara then proceeded to lose 11 in a row. The dance card was empty at that point. They turned their season around when the calendar flipped winning 10 straight and 21 of their last 22 games, capped with a win over Texas Southern to claim the SWAC tournament title.
The conference wasn’t the strongest with only one team other than the Panthers winning more than 17 games overall, and FDU has tremendous depth that allowed them to win the NEC tournament and advance to the Dance on an eight-game winning streak. Darnell Edge leads five Knights in double figure scoring with 16.4 points per game, and options will allow FDU to pull this one out for a date with Gonzaga on Friday.
Temple vs. Belmont, 9:10 p.m. ET (truTV)
At least one Bruins team made the Tournament, and it wasn’t that team in Westwood that has a bunch of banners hanging from the ceiling. Belmont got the better of UCLA in an earlier meeting giving them an edge. There were some anxious moments on the Belmont campus after the Bruins lost the OVC final to Murray State and the committee’s reluctance to give at-large berths to deserving mid-majors.
For the first time in 32 years a team from the OVC received an at-large bid, and the Bruins are deserving. They went 16-2 in conference play, matching the Racers for the top spot in the OVC. Their 26-5 overall ledger was enough to convince the committee that they deserve a shot instead of a middle-of-the-pack power conference. Led by Dylan Windler, who averages 21.4 points and 10.7 rebounds, the Bruins are the second-highest scoring team in the country. And they have plenty to prove.
St. Francis (PA) at Indiana, 7 p.m. ET (ESPN)
The Hoosiers have a chance to prove their doubters wrong. The only problem is that they’ll have to do it in the NIT. Indiana was considered a bubble team, which is ludicrous for a squad that went 17-15 overall and 8-12 in the Big Ten. They had some nice wins over Marquette, Louisville, Wisconsin and Michigan State twice, but they failed in other games and are where they should be.
I like IU because of the way they finished the year with wins over MSU and Wisconsin among their four straight before losing to Ohio State in the B1G tourney. However, laying nearly 20 points to an energized St. Francis squad is too much, and I’m taking the points.
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