{"id":430241,"date":"2022-01-24T15:44:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T23:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/?page_id=430241"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:17:10","slug":"public-betting-trends","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/college-basketball\/public-betting-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Public Betting &amp; Money Percentages for Today&#8217;s Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><script>\r\nfreestar.queue.push(function() {\r\nfreestar.newVideo(\"FreeStarVideoAdContainer_Slider\");\r\n});\r\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<\/head><body><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-ncaa-tournament-public-betting-splits-for-final-four\">NCAA Tournament Public Betting Splits for Final Four<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You will find the public bet and money percentages for each game of the March Madness tournament above. Follow the link to download the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/news\/college-basketball\/printable-2026-march-madness-bracket-make-your-picks-for-the-ncaa-tournament\/\">printable March Madness bracket<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The early public-betting splits for Monday&rsquo;s national championship game Final Four games (Michigan vs UConn) include the following:<\/p><div class=\"\" data-freestar-ad=\"__300x250 __300x250\" id=\"sportsbettingdime_InContent_1\">\n        <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n            freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({\n                placementName: \"sportsbettingdime_InContent_1\",\n                slotId: \"sportsbettingdime_InContent_1\"\n            });\n        <\/script>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The public likes Michigan to win (60% of handle as -300 favorites) and cover (70% of handle as 6.5-point favorites).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The public is hammering the over so far, putting 89% of O\/U money on over 143.5, which has caused the number to tick up to 144.5 at some sportsbooks. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-public-s-march-madness-betting-record\">Public&rsquo;s March Madness Betting Record<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"overflow-x-scroll no-scrollbar\">\n<figure style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--5);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--5)\" class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Round<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Public&rsquo;s ATS Record<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>FINAL FOUR<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2-0<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>ELITE EIGHT<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2-2<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>SWEET 16<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">4-3-1<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>SECOND ROUND<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">10-6<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>FIRST ROUND<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">17-15<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>FIRST FOUR<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">3-1<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>2026 MARCH MADNESS TOTAL<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">34-29-1<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2025 MARCH MADNESS TOTAL<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">29-38<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2024 MARCH MADNESS TOTAL<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">33-34<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-what-are-ncaab-public-betting-percentages\">What Are NCAAB Public Betting Percentages?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Basically, this page is tracking the amount of money bet on each team in a college basketball game. Sportsbooks monitor the amount of money their customers have wagered on NCAAB teams (in order to effectively manage their exposure) and then share that information with SBD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The public betting percentages are split into the percentage of the handle and the percentage of the bets a team has received from the public. The difference between those two concepts is explained below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-what-does-handle-mean\">What Does &ldquo;% Handle&rdquo; Mean?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The percentage of the total handle means the amount of money bet on Team X compared to their opponent. If Team X has received 60% of the ATS (&ldquo;against the spread&rdquo;) betting handle, that means $60 out of every $100 wagered on this game has been on Team X to cover the spread. The remaining 40% will have been wagered on the opponent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a two-team game, both the bet percentage and handle percentage will always add up to 100%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-what-does-bets-mean\">What Does &ldquo;% Bets&rdquo; Mean?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The bet percentage refers to how many individual wagers have been on Team X compared to their opponent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&rsquo;s say ten total ATS wagers were made on a game between Gonzaga and Baylor. Four people bet $20 on Gonzaga, one person bet $50 on Gonzaga, three people bet $30 on Baylor, and two people bet $100 on Baylor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this case, the bet percentage is split evenly between the two teams (five bets on Gonzaga and five bets on Baylor).<\/p>\n\n\n<aside data-shortcode=\"crosspost\"\n    class=\"not-prose my-4 flex flex-col gap-y-6 border-t border-b border-base-200 text-center font-display-heavy text-xl font-black items-center py-8 px-4 text-base-content\">\n    <p>Odds to Win March Madness 2027: NCAA Men\u2019s Tournament Futures Tracker<\/p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/college-basketball\/futures\/tournament-champion-odds\/\" class=\"btn btn-primary btn-sm\">Read More<\/a>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n\n<p>However, the handle percentage is strongly in favor of Baylor. The five total bets on the Bears add up to $290. The five total bets on the Zags add up to just $130.&nbsp; Since Baylor has received $290 out of $420 in total bets, its handle percentage is 69%, leaving a 31% handle percentage for Gonzaga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-what-does-it-mean-when-handle-and-bets-favor-different-teams\">What Does It Mean When &ldquo;% Handle&rdquo; and &ldquo;% Bets&rdquo; Favor Different Teams?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you see betting splits where Team X is getting more of the total bets and Team Y is getting more of the total handle, the general takeaway is that people are placing larger wagers on Team Y.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Often, this means that sharp bettors are betting on Team Y (as sharps tend to bet more than Joe Public). But that&rsquo;s not always the case, and blindly following the handle percentage in such instances is not a sure-fire way to tail sharp bettors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The raw bet and handle percentage do not tell you how many people have wagered on this game nor who they are. 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The early public-betting splits for Monday&rsquo;s national championship game Final Four games (Michigan vs UConn) include the following: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/college-basketball\/public-betting-trends\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":592415,"parent":48639,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-league-odds-tool.blade.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"website_editions":[],"website_editions_hreflang":[],"website_editions_default_edition":"us","website_editions_htmllang":"us","footnotes":""},"content_buckets":[219591],"class_list":["post-430241","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","content_buckets-content-bucket-sports-betting-data-pages"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/430241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430241"}],"version-history":[{"count":92,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/430241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765610,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/430241\/revisions\/765610"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"content_buckets","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content_buckets?post=430241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}