NIT Tournament Spreads Now Up

Written by:
Dan Shapiro
Published on:
Mar/14/2011
NIT Tournament Spreads

It took some time but the NIT Tournament spreads for Tuesday March 15, 2011 games are finally up at Bookmaker.com.

The NIT Tournament does get a decent amount of attention from gamblers and College Basketball fans despite its treatment as the “red headed step child” of March Madness.

“Traffic related to the NIT games is always quite exceptional,” notes Gambling911.com Senior Editor Payton O’Brien. 

The National Invitational Tournament has a stigma attached to it, as noted by Wikipedia:

The status of the post-season National Invitation Tournament as a "consolation" fixture has led to somewhat of a stigma in the minds of many fans. When teams with tenuous hopes of an NCAA Tournament berth lose away from home late in the season, opposing fans may taunt the players in the closing seconds with the prospect of having to play in the NIT.  This is done regardless of whether the home team is headed for the NCAA Tournament or not.  Irv Moss, a journalist for the Denver Post, once wrote of such a taunt to a defeated team, "The three-letter word... was far more cutting than any four-letter word they could have hollered."

NIT TOURNAMENT - FIRST ROUND BOTTOM TEAM IS HOME

4:00 PM

543



DAYTON

+5-110

o137½-110

-

544



COLL CHARLESTON

-5-110

u137½-110

-

4:00 PM

545



VERMONT

+10-110

o128-110

-

546



CLEVELAND ST

-10-110

u128-110

-

4:00 PM

547



COASTAL CAROLINA

+12½-110

o127-110

-

548



ALABAMA

-12½-110

u127-110

-

4:30 PM

549



HARVARD

+5½-110

o132-110

-

550



OKLAHOMA ST

-5½-110

u132-110

-

5:00 PM

551



MURRAY ST

+7½-110

o126½-110

-

552



MISSOURI ST

-7½-110

u126½-110

-

6:00 PM

553



BOSTON COLLEGE

-6-110

o143½-110

-

554



MCNEESE STATE

+6-110

u143½-110

-

6:00 PM

555



FAIRFIELD

+6½-110

o125½-110

-

556



COLORADO ST

-6½-110

u125½-110

-

6:00 PM

557



UTEP

+5½-110

o133-110

-

558



NEW MEXICO

-5½-110

u133-110

-

8:00 PM

559



KENT STATE

+11-110

o142½-110

-

560



ST MARY S CA

-11-110

u142½-110

-

Dan Shapiro, Gambling911.com

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