Plenty of sports fans get into college basketball when the NCAA tournament bracket is revealed.
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That's common, but plenty of hoops heads use the conference tournament week as a cram session for the March Madness exam. Every team that will play in the 68-team field was on stage last week in conference tournament play, and there are five key lessons from those games to take away before making NCAA tournament bets at BetMGM.
Betting Duke might be dangerous
Here was Duke's finish to the season: Get embarrassed on their home court by North Carolina, barely beat (and not cover against) a Syracuse team without leading scorer Buddy Boeheim in the ACC quarterfinals, barely beat (and not cover against) Miami in the semifinals, lose to Virginia Tech handily in the final.