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up your bracket around 5:30 p.m. Thursday when your champ Arizona went down to Princeton. Or possibly later Friday when 16-seeded Fairleigh

Dickinson knocked off top-seeded Purdue? Join the club. Now what? Fortunately, there are still plenty of ways to have some action on the remainder of the tournament.Let’s start with second-chance Sugary food 16 bracket swimming pools. ESPN.com has one right here. Looks a lot much easier with 16 teams left.Or maybe you want to attempt a bracket pool with spreads? Discover 16 people to fill a capture bracket. Everyone gets one group, and winners advance based on the ATS result. Your team might lose but cover the spread and you”capture “the other team.Or you could throw the 16 remaining groups into an auction-style draft in which you buy groups with real money and pay to the Last 4 teams, finalists and nationwide champion. It’s a different kind of the standard bracket swimming pool and can be a great deal of fun.And then, naturally, you could just bet on the games. Find a cash line or spread you like and put a wager. Pre-game, props and even in-game wagering are all used for the final 15 games. Did you miss out on a future before the tourney started? You can still wager any of the 16 teams today to win the region or title.– David Bearman The story of the 2023 NCAA Competition have been huge underdogs winning and unders cashing. For the first time since the field expanded to 64 teams in 1985, two underdogs of a minimum of 15 points have won outright. FDU (+23.5 )managed the most significant upset in the 64-team age, beating Purdue. Princeton( +16.5)likewise beat Arizona.However, the most profitable play in the tournament has been to take games to go under the total. Unders are 35-17 so far in the NCAA Tournament(.673), continuing a pattern of unders striking in the dance. Over the last 5 competitions, unders are 182-134 (.576)in the NCAA Tournament.Houston went into the NCAA Tournament as the betting favorite, but going into the Sweet 16, Alabama has actually surpassed Houston as the favorite. According to SportsOddsHistory.com, Houston is the very first pre-tournament favorite in over 15 seasons to lose its preferred function going into the Sweet 16 despite not being eliminated.Thursday(7 )Michigan State vs. (3 )Kansas State 6:30 p.m. ET, Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, New York Line: Michigan State(-2)Money Line: Michigan

State (-135 )Kansas State
(+115 )Overall: 137.5 BPI Projected winner: Kansas State(50.3 )Kansas State is 22-11-1 ATS, connected with Florida Atlantic for the very best mark in the field. Nevertheless, Kansas State is only 7-8 ATS as an underdog.Tom Izzo is 8-1 straight-out and 6-3 ATS when preferred in the Sweet 16.

• He is 8-6 ATS total in the Sugary food 16. Kansas State is 3-0 outright and ATS in the Sugary food 16 because 1985 expansion, consisting of 2 outright wins as underdogs.Michigan State

• is 7-2 ATS against AP top-25 teams this season.Lower-seeded groups preferred in the Sugary food 16 are 11-12 outright and 9-14 ATS since 1985 tournament expansion. It’s the first time given that 2015 that a team seeded four or more spots lower is favored in the Sweet 16. That season, 2 7 seeds were preferred over 3 seeds, consisting of Michigan State beating Purdue by 4 points as a 1.5-point favorite. (8)Arkansas at (4)UConn 7:15 p.m. ET, T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada Line: Uconn( -3.5)Money Line: Arkansas(-165)Uconn(

+140) Overall: 140 BPI Projected winner: Uconn(65.9) UConn is 23-12 ATS this season, the third-best mark for any team left in the field. UConn is 7-1 ATS in its last eight games and 9-2 ATS in its last 11 games.UConn is 12-1 ATS this season in non-conference games.UConn is 6-1

• ATS in neutral-site games, while Arkansas is 7-2 ATS.Unders are 8-2 in Arkansas NCAA Competition games under Eric Musselman.(9 )Florida Atlantic at(

4) Tennessee 9:00 p.m. ET, Madison Square
Garden, Manhattan, New York

Line: Tennessee (-5.5 )
Money Line: Florida Atlantic (+195) Tennessee (-240 )
Overall: 131.5 BPI Projected winner: Tennessee (84.5 )

• Florida Atlantic is 22-11-1 ATS this season, connected with Kansas State for the very best mark in the field. The Wildcats are 18-8 ATS in their last 26 games.8 and

• 9 seeds are 14-8 ATS in the Sugary food 16 given that 1985 expansion consisting of 7-2 ATS given that 2011.

• Rick Barnes is 20-32-1 ATS in the NCAA Competition consisting of 16-26-1 ATS as a favorite. He is 2-7 ATS as an NCAA Tournament favorite at Tennessee.

(3)Gonzaga at(2) UCLA 9:45 p.m. ET,

and ATS in the Sugary food 16. In their only Sugary food 16 appearance under Nate Oats, Alabama lost outright as a 7-point favorite against UCLA in 2021. Mountain West groups are 0-6 outright and 1-5 ATS in the Sugary food 16. San Diego State is 9-14 ATS against major conference groups under Brian Dutcher.

(5) Miami at(1) Houston 7:15 p.m. ET, T-Mobile Center, Kansas

City, Missouri Line: Houston
(-7) Cash Line: Miami(-355)Houston(+260 )Overall: 138 BPI Projected winner: Houston (89.2
)Houston is 19-16-1 ATS this season but just 5-9 ATS in its last 14 games.Houston is the only group in D-I to be preferred in every game this season.Miami is 32-12 ATS as an underdog over the last three seasons,

consisting of 7-2 ATS this season. (13)Princeton at(6)Creighton 9:00 p.m. ET, KFC Yum! Center, Louisville, Kentucky Line: Creighton(-10)Cash Line: Princeton(+400)Creighton(-500)Total: 140.5 BPI Projected winner: Creighton( 87.8 )Princeton has covered six straight games, the longest active streak by any Sweet 16 team.Teams seeded

14th or lower are 5-0 ATS in Sweet 16 games. Saint Peter’s won outright as a 13-point underdog versus Purdue in 2015 for the only outright win.Last year, two groups were preferred by a minimum of nine points in their Sweet 16 matchups, and both lost outright (Saint Peter’s +13 vs Purdue, Arkansas +9.5 vs Gonzaga). Princeton is 7-1 ATS as an underdog this season.( 3) Xavier at (2)Texas 9:45 p.m. ET, T-Mobile Center

, Kansas City, Missouri Line: Texas(-4 )Cash Line: Xavier(+152)Texas(-180) Overall: 148.5 BPI Projected winner: Texas(70 )Sean Miller is 8-1 ATS as an NCAA Competition underdog (3-6 outright). Xavier is 6-2 ATS in the Sugary food 16 (
3-5 straight-out), consisting of 2-0 ATS under Sean Miller.Texas is 2-10-2

• ATS in the NCAA Competition since 2010. Given that 2015, Big East teams are 10-4-1 ATS versus

• Huge 12 teams in the NCAA Competition.