Final Four Betting Odds

From the top 64 NCAA Basketball teams, March Madness Season develops, as the Sweet Sixteen turns into the Elite Eight, the Final Four and eventually the National Championship Game.

The 2018 Men's NCAA Final Four will be played on March 31 and April 2 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. The 2018 NCAA Final Four will match up the four winners of the 2018 NCAA Tournament Regional Finals: East, Midwest, South and West. The four teams that advance to the Final Four will play for the right to be crowned as champions of college basketball. The two national semifinal games will be played on March 31 to determine the exciting matchup for the championship game on the following Monday of April 2.

March Madness: Final Four

The Final Four consists of the semifinal and final rounds of the NCAA Tournament, when the four teams left standing play games on the last Saturday and Monday of the tournament. Though having fewer games to watch is disappointing after the madness of March, the high quality of these games makes the Final Four incredibly entertaining.

The Final Four has seen the rise of new basketball powerhouses and the demise of others, and there's truly nothing like it on the collegiate or professional level. "Selection Sunday" which has become a major event as well is the tournament that culminates in the Final Four, which is one of the most-watched events in American sports.

The first NCAA Tournament Final Four took place in 1939, the year that the NCAA Tournament first came into existence. At the time, the tournament consisted of only eight teams, so qualifying for the Final Four really didn't mean much, in that you only had to win one game to get there.

The Final Four term did not exist for much longer than nearly 40 years to be exact. The term first appeared in a 1975 edition of the Official Collegiate Basketball Guide, and took off from there until it was eventually trademarked by the NCAA for official use during the NCAA men's basketball tournament.

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March Madness: Final Four NCAA Tournament games schedule

National Semifinal No. 1 (Saturday, March 31): 6:09 p.m. ET

National Semifinal No. 2 (Saturday, March 31): 8:49 p.m.

National Championship Game (Monday, April 2): 9:20 p.m.

Bet on sixteen of the best teams in college hoops. When a number of pretenders have been eliminated from March Madness betting options and we're left with 16 teams in the NCAA tournament.

The first weekend of the NCAA Tournament is pure mayhem; games begin and end simultaneously, buzzers sound from TV's, iPads, iPhones, and computers, celebrations are loud. And of course, defeat is inevitable for more than three-quarters of the field.

Choose your favorite college basketball teams and start to make your college basketball picks. Take advantage of the beginning of the college basketball season with a huge variety and amount of exciting NCAA College Basketball games as well as wager types to select from.