March Madness Betting

March Madness betting refers to wagering on the National USA College Basketball Championships. March Madness has become the focus of both fun and serious gambling on the outcome of these basketball championships.

If you want to place a bet on March madness then use one of the three online sportsbooks that we recommend and that are listed to the right.

The term March Madness covers both the men's and the women's NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) college tournaments. These basketball tournaments run throughout every March and into early April and they determine who will be the college basketball champions of America.

March Madness is a phrase or moniker that encapsulates the reduction, by tournament knockout competition, of the sixty eight college teams until the NCAA USA national basketball champions are crowned.

It has become the medium of serious wagering opportunities. If you want to indulge in March Madness betting on the basketball games then use one of the sportsbooks named on this site.

March Madness 2011 TV scheduling helps betting opportunities

This year the men's schedule sees March Madness start on March the 13th, the day known as Selection Sunday and the tournament concludes ultimately on April 4, when the NCAA March Madness Champion team will be crowned. For the women it starts and finishes one day later.

Betting fans can rejoice because for the first time, every NCAA game of March Madness will be on television across four of the mainstream TV channels, namely TNT, trutv, TBS and CBS.

This is going to help you keep an eye on your March Madness betting wagers with the online sportsbooks a whole lot easier and reduce the frustration of trying to find that venue covering the game.

More about how March Madness & its betting lines work

More people get involved with March Madness betting than wager on the Super Bowl.

The US college basketball championships or National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Tournament to give it its official name, take place through the weeks of March each year and sometimes sneak into the beginning of April for the final rounds. It is the sustained explosion of excitement that has evolved around the tournament that has given rise to its popular name March Madness, a condition afflicting college basketball fans not just in the US but right across the world.

There are both mens and womens tournaments but the majority of the March Madness betting action is firmly focused on the mens game.

It all starts with Selection Sunday, which may be almost half way through March, when the bracket is announced.

68 teams now contest the mens championships. It was expanded for the 2011 season, much to the relief of the many March Madness fans who viewed the 65th team play in match as a meaningless annoyance.

Since 1994, 64 teams have been invited to take part in the womens tournament. In both tournaments, the teams are split into four divisions based on their geographical location.

68 is quite an increase on the eight that took part in the very first mens tournament in 1939 after the famous coach from Kansas, Mr P Allen, had the brainwave that got the whole phenomenon started. March Madness betting has been relentlessly gathering momentum ever since.