The Stetson Hatters (22-12) and UConn Huskies (31-3) meet Friday for an NCAA Tournament 1st-round game. Tip-off from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn is scheduled for approximately 2:45 p.m. ET (CBS). Below, we analyze BetMGM Sportsbook’s'lines around the Stetson vs. UConn odds, and make our expert college basketball picks, predictions and best bets.
Stetson will be playing its 1st-ever NCAA Tournament game, and it gets the defending national champion, and favorite to win it all again. Ouch.
The Hatters, from DeLand, Fla., won all 3 games of the Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament, although Stetson was just 1-2 against the spread (ATS) in those outings. Stetson pumped in 83 or more points in each of the games, and it hit 3-pointers at a 36.3% clip during the season.
Stetson once had John B. Stetson, the famous hat maker, on its Chairman of the Board of Trustees, and the name of the university was changed in his honor in 1901. With an enrollment of around 2,300 undergraduate students, Stetson is one of the smallest school at the Division I level.