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2023 NCAA Tournament betting lines for each SEC team’s first March Madness game
By Adam Spencer
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The 2023 NCAA Tournament is officially here, with First Four games beginning in Dayton, Ohio, on Tuesday night!
Mississippi State, an 11-seed and 1 of the last 4 teams into the field of 68, will take on fellow 11-seed Pitt for the right to play 6-seed Iowa State on Thursday.
Elsewhere, 7 other SEC teams made the big dance, and they’ll all have first-round games on either Thursday or Friday in various locations across the country.
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Over at DraftKings Sportsbook, the lines are out for each SEC team’s first game of the NCAA Tournament. Here’s a look at who is favored and who isn’t:
Tuesday, March 14
- Mississippi State (-2.5) vs. Pitt
Thursday, March 16
- Mizzou (+2) vs. Utah State
- Arkansas (-1.5) vs. Illinois
- Auburn (-1) vs. Iowa
- Tennessee (-11.5) vs. Louisiana
- Texas A&M (-3) vs. Penn State
Friday, March 17
- Kentucky (-4) vs. Providence
(NOTE: Alabama awaits the winner of a First Four game between No. 16 seeds Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Southeast Missouri State, which will take place Thursday in Dayton. You can bet the No. 1 overall seed Crimson Tide will be heavy favorites in that game.)
As you can see above, only Mizzou is an underdog out of the 8 SEC teams that made the tournament. How many SEC teams will advance to the Round of 32? We’ll find out over an exciting next 4 days of college hoops action!
Below, you can find a schedule of when all the First Four and Round 1 SEC games are set to tip off and where you can watch (all times in Eastern time):
Tuesday, March 14
- No. 11 Mississippi State vs. No. 11 Pitt — 9:10 p.m. on truTV
Thursday, March 16
- No. 7 Mizzou vs. No. 10 Utah State — 1:40 p.m. on TNT
- No. 1 Alabama vs. No. 16 TAMU-CC/SEMO — 2:45 p.m. on CBS
- No. 8 Arkansas vs. No. 9 Illinois — 4:30 p.m. on TBS
- No. 8 Iowa vs. No. 9 Auburn — 6:50 p.m. on TNT
- No. 3 Tennessee vs. No. 13 Louisiana — 9:40 p.m. on CBS
- No. 7 Texas A&M vs. No. 10 Penn State — 9:55 p.m. on TBS
Friday, March 17
- No. 6 Kentucky vs. No. 11 Providence — 7:10 p.m. on CBS
Adam is a daily fantasy sports (DFS) and sports betting expert. A 2012 graduate of the University of Missouri, Adam now covers all 16 SEC football teams. He is the director of DFS, evergreen and newsletter content across all Saturday Football brands.
