If you're waiting around for the Big Dance next week to get involved in college basketball, you've already missed a lot of March Madness.
While the vast majority of recreational college basketball bettors don't get serious until Selection Sunday, sharp bettors have already been firing away because they know some of the best wagering opportunities of the year happen during the conference basketball tournaments in the two weeks prior to the Big Dance.
Many wiseguys prefer this fortnight because while there are just 67 NCAA tournament games in four weeks, every conference has a tournament (except for the Ivy League, which crowned Yale as its regular-season champ and winner of the NCAA bid).