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If you go by the betting lines for each Sweet 16 game of the 2019 NCAA Tournament, we should be in for some great games heading into the weekend.
The largest spread on the board at the moment belongs to the matchup of No. 1 seed Virginia against No. 12 seed Oregon out of the West Region but even that number is still at single digits. Out of the Southeastern Conference, both Tennessee and Kentucky enter their respective matchups as favorites while LSU and Auburn are both listed as slight underdogs.
The favorites have won outright at an incredibly high rate to this point in the tournament but based on the odds, that isn’t likely to hold for the remainder of the event. Could this be the weekend where chaos takes over?
Here’s the complete breakdown of the latest point spreads with the first Sweet 16 game of the 2019 NCAA Tournament just hours away:
- #1 Gonzaga (-8) vs. #4 Florida State – Thursday, 7 p.m. ET
- #2 Tennessee (-2) vs. #3 Purdue – Thursday, 7:30 p.m. ET
- #2 Michigan (-1.5) vs. #3 Texas Tech – Thursday, 9:30 p.m. ET
- #1 Virginia (-8.5) vs. #12 Oregon – Thursday, 10 p.m. ET
- #2 Michigan State (-6) vs. #3 LSU – Friday, 7 p.m. ET
- #1 North Carolina (-5) vs. #5 Auburn – Friday, 7:30 p.m. ET
- #1 Duke (-7.5) vs. #4 Virginia Tech – Friday, 9:30 p.m. ET
- #2 Kentucky (-3) vs. #3 Houston – Friday, 10 p.m. ET
A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Michael Wayne Bratton oversees the news coverage for Saturday Down South. Michael previously worked for FOX Sports and NFL.com
