March Madness Betting

sportsbook 2012 EVERYBODY BETS NCAA MARCH MADNESS EFFECT OF MARCH MADNESS A huge percent of Americans say they plan to use social media to follow March madness. 27% You Tube 27% they will use a mobile application. 31% says they will use Youtube 50% say they will use Twitter and Facebook. Last year, the first year in which 4 TV networks broadcast every game of the NCAA TOURNAMENT brought in the highest March Madness TV rating in 20 years. Online tournament coverage rose 47% last year with 26.7M fans following the tournament via NCAA.com and mobile apps. wopije In 2009, American businesses lost an estimated 0:13:05 $1.8 BILLION in worker productivity. An estimated 58 Million fans spent at least 13.5 minutes each day doing March Madness Fans Period Loss 58 09 $1.884 activity at work. gcIAI 9E MOLK An estimated $20 Billion is wagered from mobile devices each year. March Madness is one of the most popular mobile wagering events of the year, along with the Super Bowl and Horse Racing. MARCH MADNESS RECORDS The biggest upset ever, according to the point spread, was when Santa Clara, a 19.5-point underdog, upset Arizona in the first round in 1993. Santa Clara's freshman point guard was some guy named Steve Nash Of the last 28 NCAA Champions, 27 teams have had at least one All American on their team. Önly one team scored over 100 points in an NCAA title game. In the 1990's = UNLV Runnin Rebels beat Duke by 30 points. 103-73 Glen Rice holds the record for most points scored in one tournament. In 1989 he scored 184 points in 6 games, including 27 three pointers. Ironically, he only made 7 free throws in the tournament, the fewest a tournament point leader had made since the tournament was expanded to 64 teams. UCLA has the most championship wins in NCAA at 11 titles. North Carolina and UCLA lead the way with 18 Final Four appearances each. Duke is next with 15 while Kansas and Kentucky have 13 each. Mike Krzyzewski is far ahead of all active coaches with 11 Final Fo appearances. Roy Williams is second with seven, followed by Tom Izzo with six. Duke's reign included 7 Final Four appearances, 4 title games and 2 championships in the 9 year span (1986 - 1994) BETTING BETTING ON THE UNDERDOG A recent study showed that when one team is favored by at least 16 points and receives more than 60% of the bets, the underdog covers the spread 56.5% of the time. In the last 20 years, the team nationally ranked No. 1 going into the tournament has won it only 3 times. Since 1966 the Top 3 NCAA teams have all battled it out in the Final Four only once. How tall would every possible bracket, online and offline, be on paper of normal thickness? That stack would reach from the earth's surface to THE SUN over six thousand times! That stack would be 19.5 MILLION times the height of Mount Everest! Experts estimate that more than $7 billion is wagered via brackets distributed within offices and circles of friends, online betting, and bets with campus or neighborhood bookies. > A tip for betting in March Madness: A team with betting percentage of less than 40% + a team more than a 10 point underdog = 60% winning percentage over the past 4 season. > Odds of picking a perfect bracket in NCAA? 9,223,372,036,854,775,808/1. That's nine quintillion to one. > There is a correlation between the distance a team travels for a game and the outcome. 0-100 miles – 77% wins. 100-250 miles – 69% wins. 250-500 miles - 46.5%. > The last 10 championships have been won by 9 different schools. Connecticut is the only team to cut down the nets twice in the last decade. > Home favorites attract 56.1% of the bets, which are won 49.1% of the time; Home underdogs attract 31.8% of the bets, which are won 57.7% of the time; Road favorites attract 68.2% of the bets, which are won 47.8% of the time; Road underdogs attract 43.9% of the bets, which are won 50.4% of the time. ODDS TO REMEMBER: >A No. 16 seed has never defeated a No. 1 seed. The No. 16 seed is the kiss of death. Since the tournament expanded to No. 16 teams in 1985, a No. 16 seed has never won. Ever. >Only four No. 15 seeds have ever won in the first round. >A No. 12 seed defeating a No. 5 see is no longer considered to be an upset. No. 12 seeds that do win their first-round games also go on to win their > second-round games almost 50% of the time. > No. 13 seeds or lower win only 9% of games in round two. >The No. 9th seed usually knocks off the No. 8th seed more than half the time. >Over the past 30 years there have only been 3 in which a No. 1 seed did not make the Final Four (1980, 2008 and 2011). No. 1 seeds make the Final Four a staggering 80% of the time. > No team lower than a 12 seed has ever advanced to the Elite 8. HISTORY: March Madness was first used to describe the NCAA basketball tournament in 1982 by CBS reporter Brent Musburger. The winner owns the court. Literally. The winning team is given the option of purchasing the actual court once the tournament isover. If they decline, other teams are offered the chance to purchase it. In 1967, the slam dunk was made illegal in college basketball. Luckily, it was reinstated in 1976. The first college basketball game was played with the five manformat on January 18, 1896 between the University of Chicago and the University of lowa. The University of Chicago won, 15-12. Only 1% of NCAA players go on to play in the NBA. VCU pulled off the biggest upset in last year's March Madness tournament, beating No. 1 seed Kansas to become vCU just the third No. 11 seed to ever advance to the Final Four. Sportsbook EVERYBODY BETS sportsbook 2012 EVERYBODY BETS NCAA MARCH MADNESS EFFECT OF MARCH MADNESS A huge percent of Americans say they plan to use social media to follow March madness. 27% You Tube 27% they will use a mobile application. 31% says they will use Youtube 50% say they will use Twitter and Facebook. Last year, the first year in which 4 TV networks broadcast every game of the NCAA TOURNAMENT brought in the highest March Madness TV rating in 20 years. Online tournament coverage rose 47% last year with 26.7M fans following the tournament via NCAA.com and mobile apps. wopije In 2009, American businesses lost an estimated 0:13:05 $1.8 BILLION in worker productivity. An estimated 58 Million fans spent at least 13.5 minutes each day doing March Madness Fans Period Loss 58 09 $1.884 activity at work. An estimated $20 Billion is wagered from mobile devices each year. March Madness is one of the most popular mobile wagering events of the year, along with the Super Bowl and Horse Racing. MARCH MADNESS RECORDS The biggest upset ever, according to the point spread, was when Santa Clara, a 19.5-point underdog, upset Arizona in the first round in 1993. Santa Clara's freshman point guard was some guy named Steve Nash Of the last 28 NCAA Champions, 27 teams have had at least one All American on their team. Önly one team scored over 100 points in an NCAA title game. In the 1990's = UNLV Runnin Rebels beat Duke by 30 points. 103-73 RED LB Glen Rice holds the record for most points scored in one tournament. In 1989 he scored 184 points in 6 games, including 27 three pointers. Ironically, he only made 7 free throws in the tournament, the fewest a tournament point leader had made since the tournament was expanded to 64 teams. UCLA has the most championship wins in NCAA at 11 titles. North Carolina and UCLA lead the way with 18 Final Four appearances each. Duke is next with 15 while Kansas and Kentucky have 13 each. Mike Krzyzewski is far ahead of all active coaches with 11 Final Fo appearances. Roy Williams is second with seven, followed by Tom Izzo with six. Duke's reign included 7 Final Four appearances, 4 title games and 2 championships in the 9 year span (1986 - 1994) BETTING BETTING ON THE UNDERDOG A recent study showed that when one team is favored by at least 16 points and receives more than 60% of the bets, the underdog covers the spread 56.5% of the time. In the last 20 years, the team nationally ranked No. 1 going into the tournament has won it only 3 times. Since 1966 the Top 3 NCAA teams have all battled it out in the Final Four only once. How tall would every possible bracket, online and offline, be on paper of normal thickness? That stack would reach from the earth's surface to THE SUN over six thousand times! That stack would be 19.5 MILLION times the height of Mount Everest! Experts estimate that more than $7 billion is wagered via brackets distributed within offices and circles of friends, online betting, and bets with campus or neighborhood bookies. > A tip for betting in March Madness: A team with betting percentage of less than 40% + a team more than a 10 point underdog = 60% winning percentage over the past 4 season. > Odds of picking a perfect bracket in NCAA? 9,223,372,036,854,775,808/1. That's nine quintillion to one. > There is a correlation between the distance a team travels for a game and the outcome. 0-100 miles – 77% wins. 100-250 miles – 69% wins. 250-500 miles - 46.5%. > The last 10 championships have been won by 9 different schools. Connecticut is the only team to cut down the nets twice in the last decade. > Home favorites attract 56.1% of the bets, which are won 49.1% of the time; Home underdogs attract 31.8% of the bets, which are won 57.7% of the time; Road favorites attract 68.2% of the bets, which are won 47.8% of the time; Road underdogs attract 43.9% of the bets, which are won 50.4% of the time. ODDS TO REMEMBER: >A No. 16 seed has never defeated a No. 1 seed. The No. 16 seed is the kiss of death. Since the tournament expanded to No. 16 teams in 1985, a No. 16 seed has never won. Ever. >Only four No. 15 seeds have ever won in the first round. >A No. 12 seed defeating a No. 5 see is no longer considered to be an upset. No. 12 seeds that do win their first-round games also go on to win their > second-round games almost 50% of the time. > No. 13 seeds or lower win only 9% of games in round two. >The No. 9th seed usually knocks off the No. 8th seed more than half the time. >Over the past 30 years there have only been 3 in which a No. 1 seed did not make the Final Four (1980, 2008 and 2011). No. 1 seeds make the Final Four a staggering 80% of the time. > No team lower than a 12 seed has ever advanced to the Elite 8. HISTORY: March Madness was first used to describe the NCAA basketball tournament in 1982 by CBS reporter Brent Musburger. The winner owns the court. Literally. The winning team is given the option of purchasing the actual court once the tournament isover. If they decline, other teams are offered the chance to purchase it. In 1967, the slam dunk was made illegal in college basketball. Luckily, it was reinstated in 1976. The first college basketball game was played with the five manformat on January 18, 1896 between the University of Chicago and the University of lowa. The University of Chicago won, 15-12. Only 1% of NCAA players go on to play in the NBA. VCU pulled off the biggest upset in last year's March Madness tournament, beating No. 1 seed Kansas to become vCU just the third No. 11 seed to ever advance to the Final Four. Sportsbook EVERYBODY BETS sportsbook 2012 EVERYBODY BETS NCAA MARCH MADNESS EFFECT OF MARCH MADNESS A huge percent of Americans say they plan to use social media to follow March madness. 27% You Tube 27% they will use a mobile application. 31% says they will use Youtube 50% say they will use Twitter and Facebook. Last year, the first year in which 4 TV networks broadcast every game of the NCAA TOURNAMENT brought in the highest March Madness TV rating in 20 years. Online tournament coverage rose 47% last year with 26.7M fans following the tournament via NCAA.com and mobile apps. wopije In 2009, American businesses lost an estimated 0:13:05 $1.8 BILLION in worker productivity. An estimated 58 Million fans spent at least 13.5 minutes each day doing March Madness Fans Period Loss 58 09 $1.884 activity at work. An estimated $20 Billion is wagered from mobile devices each year. March Madness is one of the most popular mobile wagering events of the year, along with the Super Bowl and Horse Racing. MARCH MADNESS RECORDS The biggest upset ever, according to the point spread, was when Santa Clara, a 19.5-point underdog, upset Arizona in the first round in 1993. Santa Clara's freshman point guard was some guy named Steve Nash Of the last 28 NCAA Champions, 27 teams have had at least one All American on their team. Önly one team scored over 100 points in an NCAA title game. In the 1990's = UNLV Runnin Rebels beat Duke by 30 points. 103-73 RED LB Glen Rice holds the record for most points scored in one tournament. In 1989 he scored 184 points in 6 games, including 27 three pointers. Ironically, he only made 7 free throws in the tournament, the fewest a tournament point leader had made since the tournament was expanded to 64 teams. UCLA has the most championship wins in NCAA at 11 titles. North Carolina and UCLA lead the way with 18 Final Four appearances each. Duke is next with 15 while Kansas and Kentucky have 13 each. Mike Krzyzewski is far ahead of all active coaches with 11 Final Fo appearances. Roy Williams is second with seven, followed by Tom Izzo with six. Duke's reign included 7 Final Four appearances, 4 title games and 2 championships in the 9 year span (1986 - 1994) BETTING BETTING ON THE UNDERDOG A recent study showed that when one team is favored by at least 16 points and receives more than 60% of the bets, the underdog covers the spread 56.5% of the time. In the last 20 years, the team nationally ranked No. 1 going into the tournament has won it only 3 times. Since 1966 the Top 3 NCAA teams have all battled it out in the Final Four only once. How tall would every possible bracket, online and offline, be on paper of normal thickness? That stack would reach from the earth's surface to THE SUN over six thousand times! That stack would be 19.5 MILLION times the height of Mount Everest! Experts estimate that more than $7 billion is wagered via brackets distributed within offices and circles of friends, online betting, and bets with campus or neighborhood bookies. > A tip for betting in March Madness: A team with betting percentage of less than 40% + a team more than a 10 point underdog = 60% winning percentage over the past 4 season. > Odds of picking a perfect bracket in NCAA? 9,223,372,036,854,775,808/1. That's nine quintillion to one. > There is a correlation between the distance a team travels for a game and the outcome. 0-100 miles – 77% wins. 100-250 miles – 69% wins. 250-500 miles - 46.5%. > The last 10 championships have been won by 9 different schools. Connecticut is the only team to cut down the nets twice in the last decade. > Home favorites attract 56.1% of the bets, which are won 49.1% of the time; Home underdogs attract 31.8% of the bets, which are won 57.7% of the time; Road favorites attract 68.2% of the bets, which are won 47.8% of the time; Road underdogs attract 43.9% of the bets, which are won 50.4% of the time. ODDS TO REMEMBER: >A No. 16 seed has never defeated a No. 1 seed. The No. 16 seed is the kiss of death. Since the tournament expanded to No. 16 teams in 1985, a No. 16 seed has never won. Ever. >Only four No. 15 seeds have ever won in the first round. >A No. 12 seed defeating a No. 5 see is no longer considered to be an upset. No. 12 seeds that do win their first-round games also go on to win their > second-round games almost 50% of the time. > No. 13 seeds or lower win only 9% of games in round two. >The No. 9th seed usually knocks off the No. 8th seed more than half the time. >Over the past 30 years there have only been 3 in which a No. 1 seed did not make the Final Four (1980, 2008 and 2011). No. 1 seeds make the Final Four a staggering 80% of the time. > No team lower than a 12 seed has ever advanced to the Elite 8. HISTORY: March Madness was first used to describe the NCAA basketball tournament in 1982 by CBS reporter Brent Musburger. The winner owns the court. Literally. The winning team is given the option of purchasing the actual court once the tournament isover. If they decline, other teams are offered the chance to purchase it. In 1967, the slam dunk was made illegal in college basketball. Luckily, it was reinstated in 1976. The first college basketball game was played with the five manformat on January 18, 1896 between the University of Chicago and the University of lowa. The University of Chicago won, 15-12. Only 1% of NCAA players go on to play in the NBA. VCU pulled off the biggest upset in last year's March Madness tournament, beating No. 1 seed Kansas to become vCU just the third No. 11 seed to ever advance to the Final Four. Sportsbook EVERYBODY BETS sportsbook 2012 EVERYBODY BETS NCAA MARCH MADNESS EFFECT OF MARCH MADNESS A huge percent of Americans say they plan to use social media to follow March madness. 27% You Tube 27% they will use a mobile application. 31% says they will use Youtube 50% say they will use Twitter and Facebook. Last year, the first year in which 4 TV networks broadcast every game of the NCAA TOURNAMENT brought in the highest March Madness TV rating in 20 years. Online tournament coverage rose 47% last year with 26.7M fans following the tournament via NCAA.com and mobile apps. wopije In 2009, American businesses lost an estimated 0:13:05 $1.8 BILLION in worker productivity. An estimated 58 Million fans spent at least 13.5 minutes each day doing March Madness Fans Period Loss 58 09 $1.884 activity at work. An estimated $20 Billion is wagered from mobile devices each year. March Madness is one of the most popular mobile wagering events of the year, along with the Super Bowl and Horse Racing. MARCH MADNESS RECORDS The biggest upset ever, according to the point spread, was when Santa Clara, a 19.5-point underdog, upset Arizona in the first round in 1993. Santa Clara's freshman point guard was some guy named Steve Nash Of the last 28 NCAA Champions, 27 teams have had at least one All American on their team. Önly one team scored over 100 points in an NCAA title game. In the 1990's = UNLV Runnin Rebels beat Duke by 30 points. 103-73 RED LB Glen Rice holds the record for most points scored in one tournament. In 1989 he scored 184 points in 6 games, including 27 three pointers. Ironically, he only made 7 free throws in the tournament, the fewest a tournament point leader had made since the tournament was expanded to 64 teams. UCLA has the most championship wins in NCAA at 11 titles. North Carolina and UCLA lead the way with 18 Final Four appearances each. Duke is next with 15 while Kansas and Kentucky have 13 each. Mike Krzyzewski is far ahead of all active coaches with 11 Final Fo appearances. Roy Williams is second with seven, followed by Tom Izzo with six. Duke's reign included 7 Final Four appearances, 4 title games and 2 championships in the 9 year span (1986 - 1994) BETTING BETTING ON THE UNDERDOG A recent study showed that when one team is favored by at least 16 points and receives more than 60% of the bets, the underdog covers the spread 56.5% of the time. In the last 20 years, the team nationally ranked No. 1 going into the tournament has won it only 3 times. Since 1966 the Top 3 NCAA teams have all battled it out in the Final Four only once. How tall would every possible bracket, online and offline, be on paper of normal thickness? That stack would reach from the earth's surface to THE SUN over six thousand times! That stack would be 19.5 MILLION times the height of Mount Everest! Experts estimate that more than $7 billion is wagered via brackets distributed within offices and circles of friends, online betting, and bets with campus or neighborhood bookies. > A tip for betting in March Madness: A team with betting percentage of less than 40% + a team more than a 10 point underdog = 60% winning percentage over the past 4 season. > Odds of picking a perfect bracket in NCAA? 9,223,372,036,854,775,808/1. That's nine quintillion to one. > There is a correlation between the distance a team travels for a game and the outcome. 0-100 miles – 77% wins. 100-250 miles – 69% wins. 250-500 miles - 46.5%. > The last 10 championships have been won by 9 different schools. Connecticut is the only team to cut down the nets twice in the last decade. > Home favorites attract 56.1% of the bets, which are won 49.1% of the time; Home underdogs attract 31.8% of the bets, which are won 57.7% of the time; Road favorites attract 68.2% of the bets, which are won 47.8% of the time; Road underdogs attract 43.9% of the bets, which are won 50.4% of the time. ODDS TO REMEMBER: >A No. 16 seed has never defeated a No. 1 seed. The No. 16 seed is the kiss of death. Since the tournament expanded to No. 16 teams in 1985, a No. 16 seed has never won. Ever. >Only four No. 15 seeds have ever won in the first round. >A No. 12 seed defeating a No. 5 see is no longer considered to be an upset. No. 12 seeds that do win their first-round games also go on to win their > second-round games almost 50% of the time. > No. 13 seeds or lower win only 9% of games in round two. >The No. 9th seed usually knocks off the No. 8th seed more than half the time. >Over the past 30 years there have only been 3 in which a No. 1 seed did not make the Final Four (1980, 2008 and 2011). No. 1 seeds make the Final Four a staggering 80% of the time. > No team lower than a 12 seed has ever advanced to the Elite 8. HISTORY: March Madness was first used to describe the NCAA basketball tournament in 1982 by CBS reporter Brent Musburger. The winner owns the court. Literally. The winning team is given the option of purchasing the actual court once the tournament isover. If they decline, other teams are offered the chance to purchase it. In 1967, the slam dunk was made illegal in college basketball. Luckily, it was reinstated in 1976. The first college basketball game was played with the five manformat on January 18, 1896 between the University of Chicago and the University of lowa. The University of Chicago won, 15-12. Only 1% of NCAA players go on to play in the NBA. VCU pulled off the biggest upset in last year's March Madness tournament, beating No. 1 seed Kansas to become vCU just the third No. 11 seed to ever advance to the Final Four. Sportsbook EVERYBODY BETS sportsbook 2012 EVERYBODY BETS NCAA MARCH MADNESS EFFECT OF MARCH MADNESS A huge percent of Americans say they plan to use social media to follow March madness. 27% You Tube 27% they will use a mobile application. 31% says they will use Youtube 50% say they will use Twitter and Facebook. Last year, the first year in which 4 TV networks broadcast every game of the NCAA TOURNAMENT brought in the highest March Madness TV rating in 20 years. Online tournament coverage rose 47% last year with 26.7M fans following the tournament via NCAA.com and mobile apps. wopije In 2009, American businesses lost an estimated 0:13:05 $1.8 BILLION in worker productivity. An estimated 58 Million fans spent at least 13.5 minutes each day doing March Madness Fans Period Loss 58 09 $1.884 activity at work. An estimated $20 Billion is wagered from mobile devices each year. March Madness is one of the most popular mobile wagering events of the year, along with the Super Bowl and Horse Racing. MARCH MADNESS RECORDS The biggest upset ever, according to the point spread, was when Santa Clara, a 19.5-point underdog, upset Arizona in the first round in 1993. Santa Clara's freshman point guard was some guy named Steve Nash Of the last 28 NCAA Champions, 27 teams have had at least one All American on their team. Önly one team scored over 100 points in an NCAA title game. In the 1990's = UNLV Runnin Rebels beat Duke by 30 points. 103-73 RED LB Glen Rice holds the record for most points scored in one tournament. In 1989 he scored 184 points in 6 games, including 27 three pointers. Ironically, he only made 7 free throws in the tournament, the fewest a tournament point leader had made since the tournament was expanded to 64 teams. UCLA has the most championship wins in NCAA at 11 titles. North Carolina and UCLA lead the way with 18 Final Four appearances each. Duke is next with 15 while Kansas and Kentucky have 13 each. Mike Krzyzewski is far ahead of all active coaches with 11 Final Fo appearances. Roy Williams is second with seven, followed by Tom Izzo with six. Duke's reign included 7 Final Four appearances, 4 title games and 2 championships in the 9 year span (1986 - 1994) BETTING BETTING ON THE UNDERDOG A recent study showed that when one team is favored by at least 16 points and receives more than 60% of the bets, the underdog covers the spread 56.5% of the time. In the last 20 years, the team nationally ranked No. 1 going into the tournament has won it only 3 times. Since 1966 the Top 3 NCAA teams have all battled it out in the Final Four only once. How tall would every possible bracket, online and offline, be on paper of normal thickness? That stack would reach from the earth's surface to THE SUN over six thousand times! That stack would be 19.5 MILLION times the height of Mount Everest! Experts estimate that more than $7 billion is wagered via brackets distributed within offices and circles of friends, online betting, and bets with campus or neighborhood bookies. > A tip for betting in March Madness: A team with betting percentage of less than 40% + a team more than a 10 point underdog = 60% winning percentage over the past 4 season. > Odds of picking a perfect bracket in NCAA? 9,223,372,036,854,775,808/1. That's nine quintillion to one. > There is a correlation between the distance a team travels for a game and the outcome. 0-100 miles – 77% wins. 100-250 miles – 69% wins. 250-500 miles - 46.5%. > The last 10 championships have been won by 9 different schools. Connecticut is the only team to cut down the nets twice in the last decade. > Home favorites attract 56.1% of the bets, which are won 49.1% of the time; Home underdogs attract 31.8% of the bets, which are won 57.7% of the time; Road favorites attract 68.2% of the bets, which are won 47.8% of the time; Road underdogs attract 43.9% of the bets, which are won 50.4% of the time. ODDS TO REMEMBER: >A No. 16 seed has never defeated a No. 1 seed. The No. 16 seed is the kiss of death. Since the tournament expanded to No. 16 teams in 1985, a No. 16 seed has never won. Ever. >Only four No. 15 seeds have ever won in the first round. >A No. 12 seed defeating a No. 5 see is no longer considered to be an upset. No. 12 seeds that do win their first-round games also go on to win their > second-round games almost 50% of the time. > No. 13 seeds or lower win only 9% of games in round two. >The No. 9th seed usually knocks off the No. 8th seed more than half the time. >Over the past 30 years there have only been 3 in which a No. 1 seed did not make the Final Four (1980, 2008 and 2011). No. 1 seeds make the Final Four a staggering 80% of the time. > No team lower than a 12 seed has ever advanced to the Elite 8. HISTORY: March Madness was first used to describe the NCAA basketball tournament in 1982 by CBS reporter Brent Musburger. The winner owns the court. Literally. The winning team is given the option of purchasing the actual court once the tournament isover. If they decline, other teams are offered the chance to purchase it. In 1967, the slam dunk was made illegal in college basketball. Luckily, it was reinstated in 1976. The first college basketball game was played with the five manformat on January 18, 1896 between the University of Chicago and the University of lowa. The University of Chicago won, 15-12. Only 1% of NCAA players go on to play in the NBA. VCU pulled off the biggest upset in last year's March Madness tournament, beating No. 1 seed Kansas to become vCU just the third No. 11 seed to ever advance to the Final Four. Sportsbook EVERYBODY BETS sportsbook 2012 EVERYBODY BETS NCAA MARCH MADNESS EFFECT OF MARCH MADNESS A huge percent of Americans say they plan to use social media to follow March madness. 27% You Tube 27% they will use a mobile application. 31% says they will use Youtube 50% say they will use Twitter and Facebook. Last year, the first year in which 4 TV networks broadcast every game of the NCAA TOURNAMENT brought in the highest March Madness TV rating in 20 years. Online tournament coverage rose 47% last year with 26.7M fans following the tournament via NCAA.com and mobile apps. wopije In 2009, American businesses lost an estimated 0:13:05 $1.8 BILLION in worker productivity. An estimated 58 Million fans spent at least 13.5 minutes each day doing March Madness Fans Period Loss 58 09 $1.884 activity at work. An estimated $20 Billion is wagered from mobile devices each year. March Madness is one of the most popular mobile wagering events of the year, along with the Super Bowl and Horse Racing. MARCH MADNESS RECORDS The biggest upset ever, according to the point spread, was when Santa Clara, a 19.5-point underdog, upset Arizona in the first round in 1993. Santa Clara's freshman point guard was some guy named Steve Nash Of the last 28 NCAA Champions, 27 teams have had at least one All American on their team. Önly one team scored over 100 points in an NCAA title game. In the 1990's = UNLV Runnin Rebels beat Duke by 30 points. 103-73 RED LB Glen Rice holds the record for most points scored in one tournament. In 1989 he scored 184 points in 6 games, including 27 three pointers. Ironically, he only made 7 free throws in the tournament, the fewest a tournament point leader had made since the tournament was expanded to 64 teams. UCLA has the most championship wins in NCAA at 11 titles. North Carolina and UCLA lead the way with 18 Final Four appearances each. Duke is next with 15 while Kansas and Kentucky have 13 each. Mike Krzyzewski is far ahead of all active coaches with 11 Final Fo appearances. Roy Williams is second with seven, followed by Tom Izzo with six. Duke's reign included 7 Final Four appearances, 4 title games and 2 championships in the 9 year span (1986 - 1994) BETTING BETTING ON THE UNDERDOG A recent study showed that when one team is favored by at least 16 points and receives more than 60% of the bets, the underdog covers the spread 56.5% of the time. In the last 20 years, the team nationally ranked No. 1 going into the tournament has won it only 3 times. Since 1966 the Top 3 NCAA teams have all battled it out in the Final Four only once. How tall would every possible bracket, online and offline, be on paper of normal thickness? That stack would reach from the earth's surface to THE SUN over six thousand times! That stack would be 19.5 MILLION times the height of Mount Everest! Experts estimate that more than $7 billion is wagered via brackets distributed within offices and circles of friends, online betting, and bets with campus or neighborhood bookies. > A tip for betting in March Madness: A team with betting percentage of less than 40% + a team more than a 10 point underdog = 60% winning percentage over the past 4 season. > Odds of picking a perfect bracket in NCAA? 9,223,372,036,854,775,808/1. That's nine quintillion to one. > There is a correlation between the distance a team travels for a game and the outcome. 0-100 miles – 77% wins. 100-250 miles – 69% wins. 250-500 miles - 46.5%. > The last 10 championships have been won by 9 different schools. Connecticut is the only team to cut down the nets twice in the last decade. > Home favorites attract 56.1% of the bets, which are won 49.1% of the time; Home underdogs attract 31.8% of the bets, which are won 57.7% of the time; Road favorites attract 68.2% of the bets, which are won 47.8% of the time; Road underdogs attract 43.9% of the bets, which are won 50.4% of the time. ODDS TO REMEMBER: >A No. 16 seed has never defeated a No. 1 seed. The No. 16 seed is the kiss of death. Since the tournament expanded to No. 16 teams in 1985, a No. 16 seed has never won. Ever. >Only four No. 15 seeds have ever won in the first round. >A No. 12 seed defeating a No. 5 see is no longer considered to be an upset. No. 12 seeds that do win their first-round games also go on to win their > second-round games almost 50% of the time. > No. 13 seeds or lower win only 9% of games in round two. >The No. 9th seed usually knocks off the No. 8th seed more than half the time. >Over the past 30 years there have only been 3 in which a No. 1 seed did not make the Final Four (1980, 2008 and 2011). No. 1 seeds make the Final Four a staggering 80% of the time. > No team lower than a 12 seed has ever advanced to the Elite 8. HISTORY: March Madness was first used to describe the NCAA basketball tournament in 1982 by CBS reporter Brent Musburger. The winner owns the court. Literally. The winning team is given the option of purchasing the actual court once the tournament isover. If they decline, other teams are offered the chance to purchase it. In 1967, the slam dunk was made illegal in college basketball. Luckily, it was reinstated in 1976. The first college basketball game was played with the five manformat on January 18, 1896 between the University of Chicago and the University of lowa. The University of Chicago won, 15-12. Only 1% of NCAA players go on to play in the NBA. VCU pulled off the biggest upset in last year's March Madness tournament, beating No. 1 seed Kansas to become vCU just the third No. 11 seed to ever advance to the Final Four. Sportsbook EVERYBODY BETS