Point-Spreads.com is breaking down the Midwest Regional 2009 NCAA Bracket. The streaking Cardinals are the favorite to win the Midwest Region and advance to the Final Four, with the bookmakers at Sportsbook.com making the Big East Tournament Champion Louisville Cardinals +150 odds to advance through their 2009 NCAA Bracket .
"Louisville is hot right now with is a great thing to be heading into the tournament," stated Point-Spreads.com Publisher Thomas Jensen. "Wake Forest and Kansas could blow up this 2009 NCAA bracket and the bookmakers have both schools listed with decent future odds to make a small value bet on them winning the Midwest Region and upsetting Louisville's Final Four dreams this season."
Get the latest point spreads and compare sports odds for every game in the 2009 NCAA Tournament here.
"It speaks volumes for what it means to win the Big East regular season and tournament championships," stated Louisville Cardinals head coach Rick Pitino. “We've sat here in other years when we were in Conference USA, thinking we deserved a number two or three seed when it didn't come to fruition, so this is very exciting for our team…No matter what we do offensively, if we play great defense we have a chance to win and great defensive teams are going to get to a Final Four. I just yell, 'Give me two new guards. I don't even say their names and they go. I say, give me two new guards and they go. We have a deep bench and it's the way we play.”
Enter to win $12 Million Dollars in the Perfect Bracket Contest at Sportsbook.com. The 2009 NCAA Bracket Midwest Region will play its first round games in Indianapolis, Dayton, Miami and Minneapolis. The 2009 NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship Game is scheduled for April 6 at Ford Field in Detroit.
Sportsbook.com has posted betting odds for the Midwest Region 2009 NCAA Bracket:
Alabama St or Morehead St: +5000
Arizona: +3000
Boston College: +3000
Cleveland State: +5000
Dayton: +5000
Kansas: +600
Louisville: +150
Michigan State: +350
North Dakota State: +5000
Ohio State: +1500
Robert Morris: +5000
Siena: +3000
USC: +3000
Utah: +2200
Wake Forest: +500
West Virginia: +600
