Six teams from the ACC have made the Sweet 16 for the first time ever in the 2016 NCAA tournament. Three of them opened as betting favorites and three as underdogs for the next round of the Big Dance at sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark, with two playing Thursday and four Friday.
Thursday’s Sweet 16 matchups tip off in the South Region, with the third-seeded Miami Hurricanes (27-7) facing the second-seeded Villanova Wildcats (31-5) at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky.
The Hurricanes are consensus 4.5-point underdogs versus the Wildcats, and the two teams have not met since 2004, when both schools resided in the old Big East.