{"id":661167,"date":"2026-03-16T13:35:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/661167\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T13:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:35:21","slug":"wisconsin-basketball-opening-odds-revealed-for-badgers-vs-high-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/661167\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Basketball: Opening odds revealed for Badgers vs. High Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Selection Sunday revealed that the Wisconsin Badgers will take on the High Point Panthers on Thursday in the 5-12 matchup in the West Region. Tip-off is slated for 12:50 p.m. CT on TBS at the Moda Center in Portland Oregon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Wisconsin, cracking the field as the last No. 5 seed and the No. 20 overall seed in the bracket, were sent to the West Region, where the Arizona Wildcats are the No. 1 seed, and will be a part of the Thursday\/Saturday slate in the first weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">They draw the High Point Panthers, who went 30-4 this season and won the Big South, earning them a No. 12 seed in the bracket alongside Akron (Midwest Region), McNeese (South Region), and Northern Iowa (East Region).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When betting lines opened for the first round, the Badgers were actually seen as a 12.5-point favorite over High Point, which was the highest of any No. 5 vs. No. 12 matchup, indicating that Wisconsin may have gotten the best draw of the field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But, those odds have quickly shifted, as Wisconsin is now only a 9.5-point favorite on ESPNBet, with the over\/under at 164.5 points. In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsbook.fanduel.com\/navigation\/ncaab\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FanDuel Sportsbook<\/a> had the line dropped down to as low as 7.5, but now lists the Badgers as a 9.5-point favorite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Looking at the other No. 5 vs. No. 12 matchups, Vanderbilt is an 11.5-point favorite over McNeese. Texas Tech is a 7.5-point favorite over Akron. And St. John\u2019s is an 11.5-point favorite over Northern Iowa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We\u2019ll see how the line settles heading into Thursday, but it seems like money has come in on High Point to cover the spread, resulting in the line dropping right after the opening odds were revealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Selection Sunday revealed that the Wisconsin Badgers will take on the High Point Panthers on Thursday in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,38037,49324],"class_list":{"0":"post-661167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-wisconsin-mens-basketball","10":"tag-wisconsin-mens-basketball-schedule"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116239121380750985","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}