Creighton vs. Baylor Bracket Prediction: March Madness Odds
The Baylor Bears as 1.5-point favourites on the college basketball odds.
Creighton vs. Baylor NCAA Tournament Point Spread and Betting
The winner of this game will face either No. 7 Missouri (my choice) or No. 15 Princeton in the Sweet 16 next weekend. Since the bracket expanded to 64 teams in 1985, No. 3 seeds are 46-29 all-time against No. 6 seeds. In that span, No. 6 seeds are 45-48 in the second round against all seeds.
Creighton is 3-2 all-time against Baylor, but the teams haven’t met since November 2017. The lone NCAA Tournament matchup between them was in 2014 when Baylor won by 30. Creighton played two Big 12 schools this season, winning 76-65 over Texas Tech on Nov. 21 at a neutral site and losing at Texas on Dec. 1. Baylor was 2-0 vs. TTU and split with Texas. The Bears played at Big East champion Marquette on Nov. 29 and lost 96-70. Creighton lost both games vs. Marquette.
To win the South, both Creighton and Baylor at +372 second-favourites behind top seed Alabama.
Creighton Bluejays (6)
Creighton beat No. 11 NC State 72-63 in Round 1. Few teams will have an answer for 7-foot-1 Bluejays centre Ryan Kalkbrenner, the Big East Defensive Player of the Year and national leader in field-goal per centage, and he dominated the Wolfpack with a career-high 31 points (most by a Creighton player in NCAA Tournament history) on 11-for-14 shooting along with seven rebounds and three blocks. Kalkbrenner became the first player in CU history to play in four NCAA Tournament wins. Freshman forward Mason Miller injured his ankle in the final minutes of the first half and did not return. His status for Sunday has not yet been determined. Miller only averages 9.5 minutes per game. Creighton is now one of six teams in the country to have a win in each of the last three NCAA Tournaments including this one, joining Arkansas, Baylor, Gonzaga, Houston and UCLA. The Bluejays are 1-11 in school history in their second NCAA Tournament game of an appearance. They are 4-1 ATS in their past five overall.
Baylor Bears (3)
Baylor snapped a two-game losing streak (both to Iowa State) with Friday’s 74-56 win over No. 14 UC Santa Barbara – the Bears outscored the Gauchos 39-20 in the second half. BU got an unlikely season-high 13 points from Caleb Lohner in 18 minutes. The junior hadn’t played double-digit minutes in the previous nine games and his only double-figure scoring performance of the year was in November. Coach Scott Drew played 10 games because of the altitude in Denver. Freshman star Keyonte George struggled with nine points on 2-for-9 shooting. That won’t work against Creighton. Baylor is now 19-9 all-time in the Dance under Drew. It has won 18 of its last 19 neutral-site games against non-conference opponents overall. Baylor is 7-1 ATS in its past eight NCAA Tournament games.
