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One of the most common prop bets you can place during March Madness is on the total points a player will score. Betting on a player rather than a team is a great way to cash in on expert knowledge and detailed research into player matchups. Many other prop bets are available in each March Madness game, including player rebounds, assists or a combined total of all of the above. The beauty of prop betting is the niche nature of the markets, breaking down a game, player-by-player to make a wager based on expert knowledge and analysis.
Be sure to check back in the lead up to March Madness for our expert March Madness prop bet picks as well as our March Madness predictions before, and during the three-week bonanza.
There are various game-by-game player props on offer throughout the tournament with the main metrics of a players’ performance the main way to wager on a player prop. Each game will have a select few players listed with over/under lines on Points Scored, Assist, and Rebounds or sometimes a market combining the three metrics.
Another popular prop bet wager in the March Madness betting is on the Most Outstanding Player. In effect, it’s the MVP during the March Madness bracket and a futures market rather than a single game prop bet. It is definitely worth noting that players on a national championship-winning team have a particularly good record in winning the award, with only 12 winners not coming from the championship team since March Madness’s inception in 1939.
March Madness Team Prop Bets are a great way of wagering on a game and eliminating one side’s performance from your bet, to an extent. Obviously how one team plays affects the other, but you can wager on one team’s performance rather than a combined total. Team points totals if you’re more confident of one team having a good or bad game rather than both.
Another popular example of a March Madness Team Prop is the Winning Margin market, a tougher bet to call but you can get good odds if you correctly predict who wins and by how much, with brackets like 1-5, 5-10, and 11+ typically available, but dependent on the matchup.
Given that March Madness is such a big betting extravaganza, many sportsbooks offer side wagers that have nothing to do with the outcome of a game.
Called proposition bets, or just prop bets, these can be based on anything from who will be the leading scorer to an over/under on three-pointers made.
You can make March Madness prop bets at a variety of online sportsbooks that offer March Madness odds. Once you set up an account and deposit money to bet with, you can then start making March Madness prop bets with nearly every aspect of the college basketball tournament covered.
In order to make a prop bet on the March Madness tournament, you must go to the March Madness or College Basketball tab on your sportsbook and find the game you wish to wager on. Clicking on the match will open all of the available markets including player and team prop bets.
A bracket requires you to correctly predict the outcome of each March Madness game – which you have a 1 in 9.2 quintillion chance of doing whereas a prop bet has significantly better chances of succeeding. For March Madness, a prop would be a bet on individual player accomplishments like rebounds, or one seed to beat the other.
