Kentucky Downs NCAA Basketball Betting Favorite North Carolina at BetLM

Kentucky Downs NCAA Basketball Betting Favorite North Carolina

The No. 4 Ken­tucky Wild­cats defeated the second-seeded North Car­olina Tar Heels 76–69 Sun­day, even as Bran­don Knight poured in 22 points.

Draw­ing almost 65% of the NCAA bas­ket­ball bet­ting action, the North Car­olina Tar Heels, with col­lege bas­ket­ball lines at +1.5, were the favorites against Ken­tucky among Lines­Maker bet­tors, if not the odd­mak­ers. How­ever, North Car­olina turned out to be the cause of huge dis­ap­point­ment among the major­ity of bet­tors, as it lost to the points-favorite Wildcats.

Knight scored five from 3-point range and hauled down seven rebounds for Ken­tucky, which reached the NCAA Tour­na­ment Final Four for the first time since 1998, when they became the National Champions.

DeAn­dre Lig­gins pulled in 12 points, includ­ing one from 3-point ter­ri­tory with 35 sec­onds remain­ing for the Wild­cats (29–8), who had 48.2 per­cent shoot­ing from the field.

Josh Har­rell­son con­tributed 12 points and eight rebounds for Ken­tucky, which won the East Region final and will next play Con­necti­cut, the West Region champion.

Tyler Zeller scored 21 points, includ­ing two free throws that helped North Car­olina (29–8) to tie the game 67–67 with 3 min­utes remain­ing. Har­ri­son Barnes con­tributed with 18 points and six boards for the Tar Heels.

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