Alex Glaze shares his best bets for Thursday night's slate of games.

Sponsored by BetMGM

Cheddar Bets

Best Bets on the Board for the Sweet 16

Welcome back to cheddar bats brought to you by bet. Mgm. Let's welcome back in Alex glaze here to talk a little bit more about March Madness. So let's give the people some of their favorite bets on the board and what to stay away from. So let's first start off with bullish. So Alex, what are you bullish or hot on right now? Yeah, I'm bullish on texas tech. We'll talk more about that game later. Really like the red Raiders tonight. Bullish on Houston. Um, and also Kansas, Kansas, I'm looking at them to handle business tomorrow night. Okay, so what do you barrett on or what are you staying away from staying away from Purdue? Even though I think Perdue is gonna win and cover. Um, just gonna stay away. It's a lot of points and Purdue hasn't been great against the spread. Uh, this year. Also staying away from the north Carolina game you guys touched on it um, in the last block, a lot of injury, um, speculation there, so I'm just gonna stay away and pass on that one. I'm also staying away from michigan, a team that surprised me. Um, so far in the tournament, to be completely honest with you, I thought they were gonna get bounced in the first round, but I think that their, their luck runs out tonight. Okay, so let's go back to bullish. Tell me a little bit more about some of these teams that you're hot on right now. Yeah, well texas tech um, tonight. I think they're going to give Duke a lot of trouble because of what they do on the defensive end of the floor. They're one of the best defensive teams in the country, I believe they're running second and defensive efficiency. Um, and Duke hasn't really faced a ton of elite defensive teams this year. So I think that's going to give them trouble. And Duke has not been a great defensive team themselves uh, this year in texas Tech has shown us in this tournament that they can turn it up offensively um as well. So I think Duke is in for a rude awakening tonight. Okay, so now let's parlay it out for the folks at home. You've studied the board and you compiled a little plus money parlay that we can tail or fade to try and win big tonight. So what do you have for us? Alright, so I got texas tech, we talked about that. I like Villanova money line a little juicy, but I think it's worth it just to, to throw it in the parlay there and not have to worry about the points or anything. Villanova, one of the best offensive and offenses in the country. Excuse me. And defenses as well, kenpom has the Wildcats ranked eighth in offensive efficiency and 30th in defensive efficiency and I expect them to do a lot of what they've done all season long score effectively and give michigan all they can handle tonight. And I'm adding Houston as well on the money line. Uh the female picks, pretty much siding with the better defenses. Um and that's no different in this matchup. I'm really interested to see how Houston's offense though, kind of can stay in because Arizona's defense is not bad, but I'm still riding with Houston moneyline, their little uh slight plus money there +105 and then I'm going to the ice for my fourth play in this parlay. The panthers on the three way money line facing the Canadians have the worst goals against average in the league and one of the worst offenses in hockey. They lost two of their last three by only one goal though. So while I wanted to look puck line for this one, I think it's better to just play safe and go with a three way moneyline because I'm expecting the panthers to dominate in this game and that parlay plays out plus pays out plus seven seventies. So this is a pretty ambitious parlay. But can I say it's so nice to see the florida panthers on there. This this is like a dream come true for me as a Floridian this this past season or two because it's been a long road for the florida panthers, love the ice cats, love the icecats, you gotta throw them on the card there. One of my, one of my favorite favorite hockey teams to bet on this year. There we go. Love to hear that. Alright, so it's time for us to bank it. Who is your absolute ironclad can't lose bonafide lock that we can take all the way to the bank tonight. It's texas tech. Tonight's the night coach K's last game on the sidelines for Duke will be uh tonight it feels like everyone is high on this Duke team because of what they just did to michigan state. But that is not a good michigan state team. We talked about texas text defense earlier uh, in this segment and I think that that is going to be the difference in this game. They're just playing on a completely different level than anyone Duke has faced this year. So texas tech money line. So we heard some big news today separately with Kyrie and lifting the vaccine mandate here out in new york city. So what do you think about this line now having Kyrie in the mix? Well, the nets, I mean this is kind of the news the nets have been waiting for right. The big question mark for them is when are they gonna get Ben Simmons back? We still don't know that answer. And is Kyrie Irving gonna be able to play home games in the playoffs? Now we have the answer to that question. That's uh that's that's huge because we're looking at some of the teams uh that we could be talking about. The nets have to play in series with, you know, we're talking about the sixers were talking about maybe boston Miami like these are great teams and they can't afford to be missing Kyrie for any of those games. So to have him active in those games is going to be big and it's the reason why the nets, oddsmakers haven't really moved off the nets as a favorite to uh, to win it all and to win the East. So where do the nets really stack up in the title race now? I think that they might for for the title. I think I've put them behind the Sun's only because the Sons are so deep. Um, but they're right there with the Suns for me. I think it's only, it's it's it's between the sons and the nets to win the title for me. Well, who else do you have your eye on in the NBA title picks now? Oh man, you put me on the spot here. I do like the Sun's because they're, they're so they're so deep and they have so much talent and can get it done on both ends of the floor. I really, I really do like them. I'm kind of a long shot here. I'm really interested in this Grizzlies team though because we've seen them be scrappy just last night. They played without jOHn Moran and you know, got handled business at home. You know, this is a really fun team, They shoot well, they played good enough defense and they've been playing with some of those elite teams in the Western Conference all year. you know, they have wins against the Suns against the Warriors. Um So I think that they're kind of like a sneaky dangerous team, they're really young, so I'm not really sure how they're gonna respond to the playoffs once teams kind of turn it up a little bit, but I'm interested to see how that Grizzlies team looks in the postseason, wow, it did not expect you to say the Grizzlies that it definitely is an interesting pick, Alex, thank you so much for joining us today at sports betting analyst Alex Glaze.