I ended the college basketball regular season and conference tournaments on a major roll. I went 15-4 against the spread during Championship Week and have been on an extended run of 39-19 over the final 3+ weeks. However, as I warned in my weekly Tuley the Tout thread in the ViewFromVegas.com Forums (http://forums.viewfromvegas.com/User/Discussion.aspx?id=226722), the NCAA Tournament is a whole different dynamic and I'm losing a lot of the edges I had with being able to look back at team's previous meetings during the regular season and common in-conference opponents, etc.

However, I do feel confident in my handicapping after such a nice run and looking forward to the NCAA Tournament. Here's what I'm looking at for my top 8 plays...I'll be posting all 32 games on Wednesday.

THURSDAY
San Diego St. +3 vs. Tennessee
Old Dominion +2 vs. Notre Dame
Northern Iowa +1 1/2 vs. UNLV
Florida +4 1/2 vs. BYU
UTEP +2 1/2 vs. Butler

FRIDAY
Louisville -1 vs. California
New Mexico St. +13 1/2 vs. Michigan St.
Siena +4 vs. Purdue.

Here's two more VFV programming notes.

Please tune in to the ViewFromVegas.com Podcast Show Tuesday night in which I will be joined by John Kelly and Dr. Odds in going over the NCAA Tournament. The show is live at 7 p.m. Pacific (the link can be found here: http://forums.viewfromvegas.com/User/Discussion.aspx?id=226888) and can also be downloaded after the show is complete.

Also, ViewFromVegas.com is having a bracket contest as well as a spread/total contest on the NCAA Tournament, so check out those threads at the top of the VFV Forums for details: http://forums.viewfromvegas.com/User/Discussions.aspx

Best of luck in the tournament.

Yours truly,
Dave Tuley