Eight teams fighting to make the field of 64 in the 2017 NCAA tournament will get their chance to advance on Tuesday and Wednesday in the First Four at University of Dayton Arena.
Each game looks to be fairly even from a betting perspective, with the winners facing very tough assignments in their next matchups.
In the first game on Tuesday, the New Orleans Privateers (20–11) are listed as small 1.5-point favorites at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com as they take on the Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers (19–15). The Privateers and Mountaineers each won their respective conference’s regular-season and tournament titles, and the winner must take on the defending national champion Villanova Wildcats (31–3) in the East Region.