Thursday’s Top Sports Betting Matchups- March 3

Thursday’s Top Sports Betting Matchups- March 3, The beginning of March marks the end of the college basketball regular season as the top teams in the nation start to focus their attention on their individual conference tournaments as well as that all important seeding for this year’s NCAA Tournament.

VietBet remains the best sportsbook for betting on college hoops for US players and one of the big matchups on this Thursday’s betting board is out in the Pac-12 with No. 25 California going on the road to face No. 18 Arizona in a 9 p.m. (ET) tip on ESPN.

Both teams are chasing Oregon for the regular season title in this conference so there is still quite a bit on the line in this game. The Golden Bears bring a seven-game winning streak both straight-up and against the spread into this matchup with the Wildcats trying to snap a SU two-game skid while going just 1-4 ATS in their last five games. Cal won the first meeting this season 74-73 as a 2.5-point home underdog. The total went OVER VietBet’s 145-point line in that game.

In another 9 p.m. start on ESPN2, the No. 24 SMU Mustangs will try and hold on to a share of the lead in the AAC standings when the host Connecticut. The Huskies already knocked-off their conference rivals 68-62 on Feb. 18 as three-point home favorites to hand the Mustangs one of their four SU losses in the AAC this season. SMU has won its last three games SU (2-1 ATS) since that setback and the total has stayed UNDER in its last five outings.

Turning to the pro ranks in the NBA, TNT starts its Thursday night double-header with the San Antonio Spurs going on the road to face the New Orleans Pelicans. The Spurs just completed an eight-game road trip heading into Wednesday’s matchup against Detroit as 11-point home favorites. They went 7-1 SU on that trip with an even 4-4 record ATS. The Pelicans stunned Oklahoma City 123-119 at home on Feb. 25 as 6.5-point underdogs only to lose to Minnesota 112-110 this past Sunday as 2.5-point favorites at home.

TNT’s other contest features a huge showdown in the Western Conference between Oklahoma City and the Golden State Warriors to close-out a recent home-and-home series. The Warriors won the first meeting this past Sunday by a score of 121-118 in a game that ended as a PUSH. Golden State will bring a SU six-game winning streak into this matchup, but it is just 2-3-1 ATS during this same run.