Online Sportsbooks are coming out NCAA Tournament props each and every day. Check out some of the NCAA Tournament prop picks that are currently on the board, and be sure to check back to this page for the rest of the march towards the NCAA Tournament, as we analyze some of the college basketball betting lines for the teams that are going to get in, or be left out of the NCAA Tournament.

Prop List Updated As Of 3/17/13
All Props Listed Courtesy of 5Dimes Sportsbook

Boise State Makes NCAA Tournament -210
Boise State Doesn’t Make NCAA Tournament +160

We’re a bit surprised to see the Broncos favored by this much to get into the NCAA Tournament, knowing that they are one of the last few teams into the dance according to Joe Lunardi. Still, we think that playing in the Mountain West will be enough to get the boys from Boise into the dance.

Middle Tennessee State Makes NCAA Tournament +100
Middle Tennessee State Doesn’t Make NCAA Touranment -140

The Blue Raiders went 28-5 and lost in the semifinals of the Sun Belt Tournament. However, they have an RPI of 29, the 11th best non-conference SOS in the nation, and at least 28 wins with fewer than six losses. Know how many teams have ever missed out on the tournament with those credentials? Zero. We have to think there’s better than a 50/50 shot that the Blue Raiders are headed to Dayton.

Ole Miss Makes NCAA Tournament -265
Ole Miss Doesn’t Make NCAA Tournament +185

It’s going to be really tough to keep the Rebels out, even if they get beaten by Florida by 40 today. They are the one team in the SEC that really took care of the business that they needed to tend to in order to get into the dance. It’d be tough to imagine that a team that finishes the season 25-9 in the SEC would even have a shot of missing the dance. The SEC was weak this year. It wasn’t that weak.

La Salle Makes NCAA Tournament -170
La Salle Doesn’t Make NCAA Tournament +130

The Explorers are the last team that Joe Lunardi has in his bracket, and many have this team as either the last or next to last team in the field. La Salle can send a thank you card out to the rest of the teams in the A-10. The power of this conference are going to get the Explorers in, though at this price, we’d probably have to pass. You don’t want to be laying -170 on a team that is the last squad in the dance.

Virginia Makes NCAA Tournament +220
Virginia Doesn’t Make NCAA Tournament -300

Do we think that Virginia is going to get into the dance? We do not. However, this is a nice price on the Cavaliers. If they don’t get in, they’ll have the best BPI in the nation amongst teams that are in the NIT in all likelihood. A lot of their losses came early in the season when they were fighting injuries. There are some good wins, and even a few great ones, but that really doesn’t make up for it all as we see it. UVA will be close, and perhaps it will be the first team out. We still think that it is worth the risk at this price.

Maryland Makes the NCAA Tournament +170
Maryland Doesn’t Make the NCAA Tournament -230

The Terps were probably just a few points away from dancing. They couldn’t quite figure out how to kill off the lead that North Carolina had in the last few minutes of the semifinals of the ACC Tournament, and as a result, they are going to be stuck as one of the high seeds in the NIT. We don’t see any way that Maryland is getting in, and we would be laying the -230.

Tennessee Makes NCAA Tournament -120
Tennessee Doesn’t Make NCAA Tournament -120

The Volunteers might be the team looking forward to the SEC Championship Game the most. If Ole Miss wins that game, it’s going to be tougher to justify putting the Vols in the dance, as the SEC really doesn’t deserve four teams. If Florida wins though, the victory over the Gators looks that much stronger, and perhaps Tennessee gets the nod. It’s a vintage tossup between the Vols, Blue Raiders, and Explorers, two of the three of which will get in. We wouldn’t want any part of this prop bet.

Southern Miss Makes NCAA Tournament +250
Southern Miss Doesn’t Make NCAA Tournament -350

We have seen the Selection Committee make some wild picks for the dance in the past, but this one would be to bizarre. The Golden Eagles literally don’t have a single win against a good team this year; winless against the RPI Top 50. You’re not going to get into the dance, even with this crazy field, without one great victory to fall back on.

Kentucky Makes NCAA Tournament +350
Kentucky Doesn’t Make NCAA Tournament -530

It’s easy to suggest that there is at least a one in four shot of the Wildcats getting into the NCAA Tournament, just based upon name recognition alone. However, unless F Nerlens Noel is going to pull a Willis Reed and get back on the court, the sad facts aren’t avoidable. UK is 4-4 in its last eight games, and the last of those games was a crushing defeat at the hands of a Vandy team that finished the season below .500. If UK gets in, it’s name and name alone that gets it there.

Massachusetts Makes NCAA Tournament +350
Massachusetts Doesn’t Make NCAA Tournament -530

There’s just no chance here whatsoever. The Minutemen aren’t even going to sniff the NCAA Tournament after losing to VCU and turning the ball over 22 times on Saturday.

Alabama Makes NCAA Tournament +450
Alabama Doesn’t Make NCAA Tournament -750

At least there’s some intrigue here. Alabama doesn’t have much in the way of even decent wins, but it doesn’t have a bad loss either. Losing to Florida by 10 in the SEC Semifinals wasn’t the end of the world, but that was a game that the Tide really needed to win. We think that this might be one of the last teams being considered to get into the field. Alabama won’t likely get in, but we could see it showing up on the line at least one out of five times. It might be worth a lottery ticket play.

There are 16 teams that are going to be in the College Basketball Invitational Tournament, and most of the teams are going to have the opportunity to come from some of the biggest conferences in America. We know that a lot of these teams are ultimately going to turn down the chance to play here in the CBI, because it doesn’t pay for them to travel to games, and they don’t want to pay for the right to be in home games, but we have to make the assumption that all of the teams are going to ultimately be play until proven otherwise. Check out our CBI Bracketology for 2013!

Don’t see your favorite team listed here in the CBI? Check out our NIT Bracketology or our CIT Bracketology instead. Also note that teams that are ineligible for the postseason are not included.

Before we begin, we must note that this is a very fluid situation and will remain so for the rest of the week until the bracket is finally set. Some teams are starting to accept bids to the secondary tournaments, and others are showing some interest as well. We’re going to be keeping this page up to date so you can tell where all of your favorite teams are going to be headed this year for the postseason.

Western Teams
The definition of a “West Bracket” really has been blown up by the fact that there really don’t seem to be all that many teams from the West Coast that are willing to be in the CBI. The Oregon State Beavers have turned down a trip to the CBI reportedly, and that finally opens up the spot for the North Dakota State Bison that we have so badly been trying to slot in for the last few days. The Utah Utes are also expected to play after their great run in the Pac-12 Tournament. The other “West” teams are going to be the Texas Longhorns and the Tulsa Golden Hurricane. Both teams have the resources to be able to travel the longer distance without it hurting them, and both seem to be quite excited to get into this field to give it a shot at taking home some hardware this year.

East Coast Teams
From this point down the bracket though, a ton has changed overnight in the CBI. In the Northeast, about the only teams that are going to be playing are the Bryant Bulldogs and the George Mason Patriots. George Mason will supposedly be hosting, while Bryant has reportedly accepted a bid to this tournament. This would likely be the first round matchup if that were to be the case. The Vermont Catamounts have also accepted a bid into the CBI, which is going to make things a bit dicey for a matchup. We have to think that there is another team from the Northeast that is going to be coming into this bracket, but for now, we’re going to shift the Purdue Boilermakers here instead.

Midwest Teams (1)
There really are eight teams from the Midwest that have drawn some interest from the CBI, and we are going to break those teams into two sets of brackets. The Charleston Cougars are going to have to travel a bit farther than most teams in the CBI if this is how things play out, but the SoCon reps have been linked to this tournament without many others being in the Southeast. The Summit League’s Western Illinois Leathernecks could be a team to watch if they get into the CBI as we expect. The Murray State Racers have gone back and forth as to whether or not they are going to accept a bid to the CBI or the CIT. We think they will, and we’ll put them in this bracket. The Wright State Raiders have been a team that we have consistently kept in the CBI for quite some time, and the runners up in the Horizon League are deserving of the spot.

Midwest Teams (2)
The Southern teams that you are used to seeing in this spot are largely deciding not to play in the CBI according to various reports. The SEC teams are all probably going to be turning down bids to play in the CBI, and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets announced that they won’t be playing in the postseason either. So, here are some more Midwest teams that could be in the field of 16. The Nebraska Cornhuskers are the big name team here, knowing that the Children of the Corn had a respectable year in the Big Ten and might want to keep playing. The Eastern Kentucky Colonels appear as though they are going to come up just short of the NIT and will be a good fit here as a potential host in the CBI. The Ohio Bobcats are probably just short of the NIT as well, and they would join a team like the Northern Iowa Panthers, who went from a team that would perhaps be an NCAA Tournament contender to one that totally fell out of the dance and the NIT in a span of just a few weeks.

The final bubble watch is in! Here at Bankroll Sports, these are the teams that we think are going to be in the NCAA Tournament. Join us for our final look at our March Madness bubble watch and our NCAA Tournament bracket predictions.

These are the 31 conference champs that have all been taken off of this page. The clubs that are listed are the ones that are going to be taking the 37 at large bids for the dance. Please note that Sunday’s championship game participants are all locked into the NCAA Tournament, though one of the two will take automatic bids, while the other will have at large bids to the dance.

Bubble Watch Update As Of Completed Games On 3/16/13

Atlantic 10
NCAA Tournament Locks: St. Louis Billikens/VCU Rams, Butler Bulldogs, Temple Owls
In the NCAA Tournament: La Salle Explorers
Left Home: Masssachusetts Minutemen

La Salle hasn’t done enough to get itself out of going to Dayton to start off the NCAA Tournament, but we do think that the Explorers are in the field. They really don’t have any glaring losses on the season, and in a year where a whole bunch of teams have done nothing but put together resumes with questionable defeats, that’s important. Are there any remarkable wins? Not really. But again, with no losses that are hurting since November, the Selection Committee has to put the Explorers in. UMass was never really considered a team that had a legitimate shot to get into the dance, and Saturday’s loss to VCU was the end of it.

ACC
NCAA Tournament Locks: Miami Hurricanes/North Carolina Tar Heels, Duke Blue Devils, NC State Wolfpack
In the NCAA Tournament: None
Left Home: Maryland Terrapins, Virginia Cavaliers

Both Maryland and Virginia only have themselves to blame for not getting into the NCAA Tournament. The Terrapins lost a brutal game right at the end of the regular season to the Cavaliers. They did get the job done against the Blue Devils in the second round of the ACC Tournament, but they couldn’t figure it out against North Carolina in the closing moments. There are two great wins against Duke on this resume, but everything else just isn’t going to cut it. UVA’s problem is that it couldn’t take down NC State in the ACC quarterfinals. Had the Hoos picked up that win, they’d be dancing. They didn’t though, and they really don’t have a leg to stand on, knowing that there have been some lousy losses along the way at the end of the regular season. Both of these teams also scheduled relatively poorly outside of the ACC.

Big XII
NCAA Tournament Locks: Kansas State Wildcats, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Oklahoma Sooners, Iowa State Cyclones
In the NCAA Tournament: None
Left Home: Baylor Bears

Nothing to see here. The Bears had a shot in the Big XII Tournament to claim a scalp against Okie State, but they didn’t get the job done, losing in the dying seconds. The Big XII is going to send five teams to the dance this year with ease, while Baylor gets left at home in the NIT.

Big East
NCAA Tournament Locks: Syracuse Orange, Georgetown Hoyas, Pittsburgh Panthers, Marquette Golden Eagles, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Cincinnati Bearcats, Villanova Wildcats
In the NCAA Tournament: None
Left Home: None

The Big East has been fairly cut and dry over the course of the last few days. This would have amazingly been a nine-bid league had UConn been eligible for the postseason. Alas, the Huskies weren’t, but these other eight teams are all going to be dancing. Most are going to be in the top part of the bracket as well. No teams were seriously on the bubble in the end after Providence and St. John’s bowed out at Madison Square Garden relatively early at the Big East Tournament.

Big 10
NCAA Tournament Locks: Wisconsin Badgers/Ohio State Buckeyes, Indiana Hoosiers, Michigan State Spartans, Michigan Wolverines, Minnesota Golden Gophers, Illinois Fighting Illini
In the NCAA Tournament: None
Left Home: Iowa Hawkeyes

The Big Ten was largely the best conference, especially at the top this year in America. Seven teams are in the dance for sure, and the question was whether an eighth would join the bunch or not. Iowa’s non-conference schedule was terrible this year, and in the end, in spite of some decent victories, it just wasn’t able to get the job done. The loss to Michigan State kept the Hawkeyes out of the NCAA Tournament once and for all.

Conference USA
NCAA Tournament Locks: None
In the NCAA Tournament: None
Left Home: Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles

Southern Miss had a chance to get into the NCAA Tournament the easy way on Saturday, and it would have been in the field had it figured out how to beat Memphis even just once this season. Alas, the Golden Eagles were dropped all three times that they played the Tigers, and that last loss in double overtime proved to be a heartbreaking defeat. This is a team that we could see getting the nod from the Selection Committee on Sunday, but it really isn’t warranted.

Missouri Valley Conference
NCAA Tournament Locks: Wichita State Shockers
In the NCAA Tournament: None
Left Home: None

Creighton comes off of the Bubble Watch page as the automatic winners of the Missouri Valley. Some are questioning Wichita State, but the Valley has a rich history here in the dance, and the conference is deserving of a second team in the field of 68.

Mountain West
NCAA Tournament Locks: UNLV Runnin’ Rebels, San Diego State Aztecs, Colorado State Rams
In the NCAA Tournament: Boise State Broncos
Left Home: None

If there is a team that was incredibly happy about how things went on Friday and Saturday, it’s Boise State. The Broncos bowed out of the Mountain West Tournament in the quarterfinals, and they had to sit, watch, and wait. What they saw as they were resting on the sidelines though, were a bunch of games go their way. Boise State deserves to be in the field of 68. The team has some big wins this year in the Mountain West, which was a significantly tougher conference than say, the SEC was for really the whole season.

Pac-12
NCAA Tournament Locks: UCLA Bruins, Arizona Wildcats, Colorado Buffaloes, California Golden Bears
In the NCAA Tournament: None
Left Home: None

There really wasn’t anything left to doubt in the Pac-12 by the time the conference reached its semifinals. Stanford, Washington, and Arizona State never really had the resumes to get into the field, and they were all really pipe dreams. The other five teams are all getting into the dance without really any degree of doubt. Cal might ultimately end up in Dayton, but it is firmly in the dance.

SEC
NCAA Tournament Locks: Missouri Tigers
In the NCAA Tournament: Ole Miss Rebels
Left Home: Kentucky Wildcats, Alabama Crimson Tide, Tennessee Volunteers

The SEC might be a dominating football conference, but this year, it isn’t going to want to remember anything that happened on the hardwood at this point. Florida is expected to win the SEC Championship at this point, and we are going to assume that it is going to do as much. If not, Ole Miss will make the fact that it is on the bubble elementary. We still think that the Rebels are in the field regardless of what happens on Sunday in Nashville. They did what Kentucky couldn’t do (beat Vandy), and there wasn’t anything that any of these teams in the SEC did that were all that notable in the SEC Tournament. Alabama couldn’t get its statement win over Florida. Tennessee and Kentucky both suffered relatively bad losses that should proving to be fatal.

Sun Belt
NCAA Tournament Locks: None
In the NCAA Tournament: Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders
Left Home: None

If you take the names off of the fronts of the uniforms, you’ll see that the Blue Raiders have a resume to get into the dance. They have a Top 30 RPI, they have a Top 15 non-conference SOS, and they have a 28-5 record. The problem is that a ton of those wins came against Sun Belt teams. The Blue Raiders went 19-1 in conference play in the regular season, but it was beaten by FIU in the league semifinals in a devastating defeat. That being said, look at the rest of this resume. It really is rock solid. There has never been a team fail to get into the NCAA Tournament with a Top 30 RPI, at least 28 wins, and no more than five losses regardless of what conference they came from. It would be upsetting to us if the Blue Raiders were left out.

West Coast Conference
NCAA Tournament Locks: St. Mary’s Gaels
In the NCAA Tournament: None
Left Home: None

Gonzaga is the automatic qualifier out of the WCC, and that could at least make things somewhat interesting for St. Mary’s. Still, that win over Creighton, a good tourney history, and a rock solid SU record should be enough to get the Gaels into the tourney. It would have been really nice to claim at least one win against the Zags at some point this year, though.

Our 2013 Food City 500 predictions are here, and that means that we are going to get another great look at Bristol Motor Speedway. Check out our Food City 500 picks for the big time race on Sunday afternoon!

Any time that the boys of NASCAR head to the short tracks, there are always a few drivers that you have to look out. The king of the crew is none other than Kyle Busch (NASCAR Odds: 6 to 1 @ 5Dimes Sportsbook). The accomplishments that Busch has on this track are out of this world. He has won five of the 16 races run here in this career at Bristol Motor Speedway, and he has 11 Top 10 finishes in those 16 runs. Specifically here at the Food City 500 in the Spring race at Bristol, Busch has been even better, logging three wins and five Top 10s in eight races. Now throw in there the fact that the No. 18 Toyota driver has nine wins, a pole, 26 Top 5s, and Top 10s in 48 races on short tracks in his career with an average finishing position of 10.8, and you’ve got a driver that you can back with confidence on Sunday.

2013 Food City 500 Predictions & Info
2013 Food City 500 Date/Time: Sunday, March 17th, 2013, 1:15 p.m. ET
2013 Food City 500 Location: Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, TN
Defending Food City 500 Winner: Brad Keselowski
2013 Food City 500 TV Coverage – Network: FOX

The defending champion of this race is becoming somewhat of a short track champ in his own right, Brad Keselowski (Food City 500 Odds: 7.50 to 1 @ 5Dimes Sportsbook). The Jet Ski won this race last year, and he is going to be back to once again defend his crown. Keselowski now has two wins in just six races here at Bristol, though when he has been bad, he has been awfully bad. The Penske Racing team has only guided Keselowski to those two wins in the six races at Bristol Motor Speedway, but he only has an average finishing position of 13.7. That means if you take out those two wins, what’s left are finishes that average right around 20th. Of course, we don’t care is Keselowski finishes 2nd or 43rd. We only care if he ultimately wins this race or not, and we’ll take our chances that says he finds his way to Victory Lane in at least one in seven races ot make this a bet worth our while.

List Of Past Food City 500 Winners (Since 2000)
2012 – Brad Keselowski
2011 – Kyle Busch
2010 – Jimmie Johnson
2009 – Kyle Busch
2008 – Jeff Burton
2007 – Kyle Busch
2006 – Kurt Busch
2005 – Kevin Harvick
2004 – Kurt Busch
2003 – Kurt Busch
2002 – Kurt Busch
2001 – Elliott Sadler
2000 – Rusty Wallace

But of course, with three Top 10 finishes in as many races, including a first place and a second place finish, we aren’t going to count out Jimmie Johnson (Odds To Win The Food City 500: 8 to 1 @ 5Dimes Sportsbook) regardless of what type of track the boys on NASCAR are running on. Simply put, there hasn’t been a more efficient driver this year in the three races that he has run than Johnson, and he is starting to look like a man that is poised to get back on top of the NASCAR world after spending two years looking up at other drivers. Johnson finished ninth last year at the Food City 500, and he has had a decent history of running here on the high banks of the short track. That being said, it would have to be considered a tad surprising if he were able to take the checkered flag once again, knowing that at some point, matters really should start to work against the No. 48. Still, like we said at the start of this, we aren’t going to be counting out any man that has the potential to run as well, regardless of the track, as Johnson has this year in three races.

1: Kyle Busch
2: Kasey Kahne
3: Denny Hamlin
4: Brian Vickers
5: Paul Menard
6: Jamie McMurray
7: Brad Keselowski
8: Tony Stewart
9: Martin Truex Jr.
10: Joey Logano
11: Jeff Gordon
12: Matt Kenseth
13: Jimmie Johnson
14: David Gilliland
15: Casey Mears
16: Jeff Burton
17: Juan Pablo Montoya
18: Kevin Harvick
19: Kurt Busch
20: Aric Almirola
21: Carl Edwards
22: Marcos Ambrose
23: Clint Bowyer
24: Greg Biffle
25: David Reutimann
26: David Stremme
27: Scott Speed
28: Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
29: AJ Allmendinger
30: David Ragan
31: Ryan Newman
32: Dale Earnhardt Jr.
33: Dave Blaney
34: Michael McDowell
35: JJ Yeley
36: Mike Bliss
37: Travis Kvapil
38: Joe Nemechek
39: Bobby Labonte
40: Josh Wise
41: Danica Patrick
42: Landon Cassill
43: Terry Labonte

To go off the board for just a bit, we’re willing to take a stab on Brian Vickers (Food City 500 Lines: 30 to 1 @ Bovada Sportsbook) as well. Vickers ran up near the top of the Food City 500 all race long last year, and he racked up a Top 5 finish for his troubles. The No. 55 Toyota led all but one lap from Lap 96 through Lap 216, and he never left the Top 10 once he got up there. It’s tough to back a man that hasn’t run in a Sprint Cup race yet this year, especially knowing that this is going to be his first time driving a Gen6 car on the high banks of Bristol, but it is still a man that we have to watch out for. He’s a short track expert, and he has run well in the Nationwide Series this year, so we aren’t going to count out the possibility of another great run by Vickers here on Sunday.

Odds to Win Food City 500 @ Bovada Sportsbook (as of 3/17/13):
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Kyle Busch 7 to 2
Brad Keselowski 11 to 2
Denny Hamlin 6 to 1
Kasey Kahne 7 to 1
Jimmie Johnson 15 to 2
Matt Kenseth 19 to 2
Brian Vickers 12 to 1
Tony Stewart 12 to 1
Jeff Gordon 14 to 1
Kevin Havick 14 to 1
Martin Truex Jr. 16 to 1
Carl Edwards 18 to 1
Dale Earnhardt Jr. 20 to 1
Clint Bowyer 22 to 1
Greg Biffle 25 to 1
Jeff Burton 30 to 1
Kurt Busch 40 to 1
Joey Logano 50 to 1
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 50 to 1
Marcos Ambrose 66 to 1
Paul Menard 66 to 1
Ryan Newman 66 to 1
Jamie McMurray 80 to 1
Juan Pablo Montoya 80 to 1
AJ Allmendinger 100 to 1
Aric Almirola 125 to 1
Casey Mears 175 to 1
Danica Patrick 175 to 1
Bobby Labonte 250 to 1
David Gilliland 250 to 1
David Ragan 250 to 1
Dave Blaney 300 to 1
David Reutimann 300 to 1
David Stremme 500 to 1
Landon Cassill 500 to 1
Scott Speed 500 to 1
JJ Yeley 750 to 1
Travis Kvapil 750 to 1
Joe Nemechek 1,000 to 1
Josh Wise 1,000 to 1
Michael McDowell 1,000 to 1
Mike Bliss 1,000 to 1
Terry Labonte 1,000 to 1

2013 Food City 500 Odds @ 5Dimes Sportsbook (as of 3/14/13):
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Kyle Busch 6 to 1
Brad Keselowski 7.50 to 1
Jimmie Johnson 8 to 1
Matt Kenseth 8.75 to 1
Denny Hamlin 8.75 to 1
Carl Edwards 11 to 1
Kasey Kahne 12 to 1
Jeff Gordon 13.50 to 1
Tony Stewart 14 to 1
Kevin Harvick 16 to 1
Dale Earnhardt Jr. 16 to 1
Clint Bowyer 17 to 1
Greg Biffle 17 to 1
Martin Truex Jr. 22 to 1
Brian Vickers 25 to 1
Ryan Newman 55 to 1
Joey Logano 55 to 1
Kurt Busch 60 to 1
Jeff Burton 60 to 1

NASCAR betting fans, start your engines! We’ve got another year on tap for all of the best auto racing, and here at Bankroll Sports, we’re going to have your NASCAR TV listings for every single race from green flag at Daytona all the way through the checkered flag at Homestead. Be sure to keep this page bookmarked, as we will be updating this page every week to tell you where you can see all of the great NASCAR TV coverage for all of the festivities involving the race weekends for all of the races this season!

NASCAR TV Schedule This Week: Las Vegas Motor Speedway Races On TV
Saturday, March 16th, 2:00 p.m. ET: Nationwide – Jeff Foxworthy’s Grit Chips 300 (ESPN2)
Sunday, March 17th, 1:15 p.m. ET: Sprint Cup – Food City 500 (FOX)

Nationwide Jeff Foxworthy’s Grit Chips 300 On TV – Only in NASCAR could you ultimately see Jeff Foxworthy’s name as a title sponsor… Alas, here we are at Bristol, and this is the 30th annual running of the Grit Chips 300. It should be an interesting race for sure, as some of the drivers that perhaps haven’t been around for quite as much time on the Nationwide circuit try their hand at the first short track race of the year. Kyle Busch is going to be the prohibitive favorite for the Saturday race at Bristol, knowing that he has had such a great start to the season on the Sprint Cup. Brad Keselowski already has last year’s Food City 500 title, and he would love to be able to sweep the races here at Bristol this season. Kevin Harvick figures to take the jump down to the Nationwide Series race this week as well. Brian Vickers has been a short track expert, and not only is he going to run for Nationwide this weekend, but he will try to qualify for his first Sprint Cup race of the year as well. Elliott Sadler is last year’s winner of this race. Richard Childress Racing has won the Jeff Foxworthys Grit Chips 300 five times since 2002, including last year with Sadler.

Sprint Cup Food City 500 On TV – If you like short tracks (and who doesn’t?), this is the race for you. There is always a ton of action here at Bristol, and we have seen drivers come back from multiple laps down to ultimately go on and win this race or place quite high as a result. This is the first run of the year on a short track, and the racing should be tight in these new Gen6 cars. It will be interesting to see how these new designs react to the high banks and the constant turns. Kyle Busch and Brad Keselowski have historically been awesome on the short tracks, as the two of them have had gobs of success at this track through the years. Others like Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr. have raced well over the course of the first few weeks of the year. Other short track drivers like Brian Vickers could be amongst those to be on the lookout for as well. Vickers finished in the Top 5 in both of the races last year at Bristol.

NASCAR On TV Next Week: Auto Club 400 (Auto Club Speedway, Fontana)

Week 3 of the NASCAR season is going to be a great one on March 10th, when the boys of the senior circuit head to Sin City to take to the track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Join us for our 2013 Kobalt Tools 400 picks on the NASCAR odds.

Last year, the Kobalt Tools 400 came right down to the wire, but there were only a few drivers that really had any chance to come away with a victory. Tony Stewart (NASCAR Betting Odds: 12 to 1 @ SportBet.com) was the man who led almost half the laps in this race though, leading the pack to the start/finish line a whopping 127 times. It was the first win for Stewart here in Las Vegas, but in his 14 starts, he has had nine Top 10 finishes along with an average finishing position of 12.9. Now, Stewart is going to be starting in the ninth spot on Sunday, and he is sure to be a contender once again to claim this title.

Jimmie Johnson (Kobalt Tools 400 Odds: 6 to 1 @ SportBet.com) ended up as the runner up last year, and after his hot start to the 2013 NASCAR schedule, there is no doubt that JJ is going to be one of the top contenders once again in Sin City. Johnson was the Daytona 500 winner, and he followed that up by being the runner up last week in Phoenix. There is no doubt whatsoever that JJ is going to be a force to be reckoned with, and as long as he is hot, even if he is the favorite to win the race at just 6 to 1 as he is this weekend, he is a man that you have to at least think about betting.

2013 Kobalt Tools 400 Picks & Info
2013 Kobalt Tools 400 Date/Time: Sunday, March 10th, 2013, 3:15 (ET)
2013 Kobalt Tools 400 Location: Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas, NV
2013 Kobalt Tools 400 TV/Broadcast Coverage – Network: FOX

The only man that led more than 35 laps at the 2012 Kobalt Tools 400 was Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Odds To Win Kobalt Tools 400: 12 to 1 @ SportBet.com). Little E though, really hasn’t had all that much in the way of success at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He has just two Top 5 finishes in his 13 races in Sin City, and he has an average finishing position of 16.3. Earnhardt Jr. only barely finished in the Top 10 in spite of the fact that he led 70 laps in that race. Here’s what we to like about the #88, though. He has a pair of Top 5 finishes on the season, and he really appears to have a good handle on how to run these Gen6 cars, something that a lot of other drivers haven’t quite figured out at this point.

1: Brad Keselowski
2: Clint Bowyer
3: Jimmy Johnson
4: Kasey Kahne
5: Greg Biffle
6: Denny Hamlin
7: Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
8: Kevin Harvick
9: Tony Stewart
10: Jeff Gordon
11: Martin Truex Jr.
12: Dale Earnhardt Jr.
13: Kyle Busch
14: Ryan Newman
15: Mark Martin
16: Carl Edwards
17: Paul Menard
18: Matt Kenseth
19: Marcos Ambrose
20: Jeff Burton
21: Joey Logano
22: Aric Almirola
23: Jamie McMurray
24: Kurt Busch
25: Juan Pablo Montoya
26: Bobby Labonte
27: Austin Dillon
28: Travis Kvapil
29: David Ragan
30: Casey Mears
31: David Gilliland
32: David Reutimann
33: Dave Blaney
34: Ken Schrader
35: JJ Yeley
36: Trevor Bayne
37: Danica Patrick
38: David Stremme
39: Michael McDowell
40: Scott Speed
41: Landon Cassill
42: Joe Nemechek
43: Josh Wise

The man that we are going to be taking a shot in the dark on this week is Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (Kobalt Tools 400 Lines: 33 to 1 @ SportBet.com). Many think that Stenhouse Jr. can be this year’s edition of Brad Keselowski, coming out of nowhere to challenge for a spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup when push comes to shove. Stenhouse won last year’s Nationwide race here at Las Vegas, and he qualified well in seventh position. Stenhouse Jr. hasn’t finished in the Top 10 in either of the two races this year, but he has finished just outside of it in both outings, proving that with a split second better pit or one more good move, and he could be in Victory Lane. With the confidence of winning last year’s Nationwide Race though, there’s no reason to think that Stenhouse Jr. can’t at least contend in Sin City.

Odds to Win Kobalt Tools 400 @ Sportbet Sportsbook (as of 3/9/13):
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Jimmie Johnson 6 to 1
Brad Keselowski 9 to 1
Denny Hamlin 9 to 1
Kyle Busch 9 to 1
Carl Edwards 10 to 1
Matt Kenseth 10 to 1
Greg Biffle 11 to 1
Dale Earnhardt Jr. 12 to 1
Tony Stewart 12 to 1
Jeff Gordon 14 to 1
Kasey Kahne 14 to 1
Kevin Harvick 14 to 1
Clint Bowyer 15 to 1
Martin Truex Jr. 18 to 1
Mark Martin 20 to 1
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 33 to 1
Ryan Newman 40 to 1
Joey Logano 50 to 1
Juan Pablo Montoya 50 to 1
Jeff Burton 60 to 1
Kurt Busch 66 to 1
Marcos Ambrose 66 to 1
Paul Menard 66 to 1
Aric Almirola 100 to 1
Danica Patrick 100 to 1
Jamie McMurray 100 to 1
Austin Dillon 125 to 1
Trevor Bayne 150 to 1
David Ragan 250 to 1
David Reutimann 250 to 1
Landon Cassill 250 to 1
Bobby Labonte 300 to 1
Casey Mears 300 to 1
David Stremme 500 to 1
Dave Blaney 750 to 1
David Gilliland 750 to 1
JJ Yeley 750 to 1
Scott Speed 750 to 1
Travis Kvapil 750 to 1
Joe Nemechek 1,000 to 1
Josh Wise 1,000 to 1
Ken Schrader 1,000 to 1
Michael McDowell 1,000 to 1

The PGA Tour is back with yet another great stop for the 2013 golf season. On March 6th-9th, the tour heads to Doral, Florida, where some of the best golfers in the world will get together for the 2013 Cadillac Championship. Check out the odds to win the Cadillac Championship, which can be found at the bottom of this post.

With the limited field allowed at this WGC event, there is no doubt that the golf odds are going to be a bit lower than they normally are. Those the odds might change, the names certainly don’t. It’s still clear that Tiger Woods (Cadillac Championship Odds: 9.50 to 1 @ Sportbet Sportsbook) is expected to be the man of the hour at Doral, a tournament that isn’t played all that far from his own backyard. Woods was the inaugural winner of this event in 1999, and he has gone on to win in six times. However he hasn’t been the triumphant one since the 2007 season, and five different golfers have claimed the title since that point. Woods does look a lot better at this point this year than he has this early in the year in most of the last three years, so perhaps he has a good chance to claim the title at the Cadillac Championship, but we aren’t 100% convinced that he is going to be able to go the distance for the 72 holes against a field this strong.

2013 Cadillac Championship Predictions & Info
2013 Cadillac Championship Dates: Thursday, March 6th – Sunday March 9th, 2013
2013 Cadillac Championship Location: TPC Blue Monster, Doral, FL
Defending Cadillac Championship Winner: Justin Rose
2013 Cadillac Championship TV Coverage – Network: Golf Channel, NBC

The interesting story to follow this week is going to be that of Rory McIlroy (PGA Tour Odds: 20 to 1 @ Sportbet Sportsbook). Last year, McIlroy was the 5 to 1 favorite on the odds to win the Cadillac Championship, and even had this tournament been played prior to last week, he probably wouldn’t have been much more than 12 to 1 or so, if even that. The Northern Ireland native though, has a demon hanging over his head right now, though. He was playing terrible golf last week at the Honda Classic when he literally just walked off of the court and told the media that he wasn’t in the right mindset to be playing golf at that point. Has his mental game improved over the course of the last week? McIlroy had better hope so, because he doesn’t even have a cut line this week to worry about, and he’ll be forced to go the full 72 holes even if he isn’t on his game.

List Of Past Cadillac Championship Winners
2012 – Justin Rose
2011 – Nick Watney
2010 – Ernie Els
2009 – Phil Mickelson
2008 – Geoff Ogilvy
2007 – Tiger Woods
2006 – Tiger Woods
2005 – Tiger Woods
2004 – Ernie Els
2003 – Tiger Woods
2002 – Tiger Woods
2001 – No Tournament
2000 – Mike Weir
1999 – Tiger Woods

Last year’s champ, Justin Rose (Odds to Win The Cadillac Championship: 17 to 1 @ Sportbet Sportsbook) is always a threat to put together a big time round of golf. It’s amazing to think that Rose is only 33 years old, and it is almost just as amazing to think that he only has four PGA Tour wins to his credit. However, he is consistently one of the best golfers in the world and is always a man to watch out for. He hasn’t won since winning last year at Doral, but he does have four big time tournaments under his belt, two from 2010 (Memorial & AT&T National) and one from 2011 (BMW Championship) as well. We think that this might be the best value on the board right now of all of the 70 golfers that are playing.

Last season, Bubba Watson (WGC Cadillac Championship Odds: 30 to 1 @ Sportbet Sportsbook) came up just short of winning at the Blue Monster. He finished a stroke back of Rose and was in contention the whole way. This is one of the budding golfers on the PGA Tour, and he has proven that he can win in the clutch when it matters most. Watson has three wins in playoffs in his career, including last year at the Masters when he outdueled Louis Oosthuizen to claim his first major tournament and the Green Jacket. Watson also finished in the Top 25 both in the Open Championship (23rd) and the PGA Championship (11th), and we have to think that he has a shot to be in contention come Sunday at Doral as well.

Odds to Win Cadillac Championship @ SportBet Sportsbook (as of 3/5/13):
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Tiger Woods 9.50 to 1
Charl Schwartzel 16 to 1
Justin Rose 17 to 1
Luke Donald 20 to 1
Matt Kuchar 20 to 1
Rory McIlroy 20 to 1
Adam Scott 25 to 1
Hunter Mahan 25 to 1
Keegan Bradley 25 to 1
Lee Westwood 25 to 1
Phil Mickelson 25 to 1
Bubba Watson 30 to 1
Nick Watney 30 to 1
Webb Simpson 30 to 1
Sergio Garcia 35 to 1
Graeme McDowell 40 to 1
Ian Poulter 40 to 1
Rickie Fowler 40 to 1
Steve Stricker 40 to 1
Dustin Johnson 43 to 1
Jason Day 45 to 1
Geoff Ogilvy 55 to 1
Robert Garrigus 60 to 1
Jim Furyk 65 to 1
Martin Kaymer 65 to 1
Bill Haas 66 to 1
Jason Dufner 66 to 1
Bo Van Pelt 70 to 1
Peter Hanson 70 to 1
Scott Piercy 70 to 1
Charles Howell III 80 to 1
Ryan Moore 90 to 1
Fredrik Jacobson 100 to 1
Padraig Harington 105 to 1
Thorbjorn Olesen 105 to 1
Ernie Els 125 to 1
George Coetzee 125 to 1
Nicolas Colsaerts 125 to 1
Francesco Molinari 135 to 1
Michael Thompson 145 to 1
Zach Johnson 145 to 1
Braden Grace 150 to 1
Carl Pettersson 150 to 1
Russell Henley 165 to 1
John Senden 175 to 1
Richard Sterne 175 to 1
Alexander Noren 200 to 1
David Lynn 200 to 1
Tim Clark 205 to 1
Matteo Manassero 215 to 1
Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano 250 to 1
Marcel Siem 250 to 1
John Huh 265 to 1
Paul Lawrie 265 to 1
Jamie Donaldson 285 to 1
Rafael Cabrera Bello 315 to 1
Brian Gay 325 to 1
John Merrick 325 to 1
Chris Wood 375 to 1
Marcus Fraser 400 to 1
Stephen Gallacher 400 to 1
Michael Hendry 410 to 1
Scott Jamieson 525 to 1
Hiroyuki Fujita 600 to 1
Thaworn Wiratchant 650 to 1