Wake and Rake: Smart Money Moving Nuggets-Pacers Betting Line
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- While most bettors are focusing on the NCAA Tournament today, sharps are all over the Nuggets-Pacers (5 p.m. ET) NBA matchup.
- Using The Action Network's betting tools, we analyze how smart money is moving the betting line for this game.
The best four days of the year in basketball betting come to a close today, and bettors are taking every opportunity to get down on the NCAA Tournament.
Unsurprisingly, college hoops is dominating the NBA in terms of overall betting action. In fact, just three of today's eight NBA games even have lines posted, at the time of writing.
But that doesn't mean professional bettors are also ignoring the NBA slate. Remember, value is value, and the sharps wasted no time finding an early number they liked in today's Denver Nuggets-Indiana Pacers (5 p.m. ET) matchup.
Using The Action Network's betting tools, let's take a look at how smart money is moving this betting line.
The Nuggets-Pacers over/under opened at 212 and wiseguys immediately jumped all over the under.
Fifty-three percent of tickets have taken the over, suggesting balanced betting on this total. However, 84% of real money wagered has instead hit the under, revealing that the big bets think the opener was too high.
Sports Insights' Bet Signals agree, triggering a Steam Move at under 211.5 and confirming that the money hitting the under has, in fact, come from professional players.
Oddsmakers certainly respect the action they've taken, moving this number down to 208.5 to account for the onslaught of sharp activity.
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