College Basketball Player Props | 3 Picks for Saturday’s Slate (March 9)

It's the final Saturday of the college basketball regular season. However, the good news is that it's March, and the action is just beginning to heat up.

While many season finales are happening today, there are still plenty of edges to be had in the player prop market.

So, let's not waste any more time and dive into our top three college basketball player props for today's slate.

We kick things off by targeting one of the marquee matchups of the day as the Kentucky Wildcats take on the Tennessee Volunteers.

While Tennessee has many edges in this matchup, the one area where it's weakest on both ends is on the glass. The Vols rank 157th in defensive rebounding and 77th in offensive rebounding.

Kentucky isn't the strongest rebounding team either, but someone has to clean up misses, and a good number of those should wind up in Reed Sheppard's hands.

Sheppard has been very active on the defensive glass for the Wildcats this season. Despite being a guard, he's third on the team in defensive rebounding rate. We've seen him prove time and time again that this line is too low for him.

He's surpassed it in 70% of games played this season, including a five-rebound performance against Tennessee last month. His high hit rate gives us a massive edge with implied odds of -233.

Next, we head to the Missouri Valley Conference tournament, where Bradley will square off with Drake. For this rebound prop, we're riding a hot streak with an unsung big man.

Darius Hannah may be fourth on the team in terms of usage, but he's made his presence felt on the glass. He's averaging 6.4 rebounds on the season and has been a model for consistency in that category.

Overall, he's gone over this total in 69% of games this season, and he's been even better down the stretch. Hannah has hit this over in seven of his last 10 and four of his previous five games.

Tonight, he'll be up against a Drake team that's the best in the country at defensive rebounding. However, the Bulldogs make no concerted effort to crash the glass defensively.

With Hannah leading the starters in defensive rebounding rate, you have to like his chances to keep rolling.

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Last but certainly not least, we go back to our friend, John-Michael Wright. If you read our best bets column on Tuesday, you would've seen the massive edge we capitalized on with Wright's assist prop that night.

Well, today we've been given another gift here with Wright's points line.

We know Wright has come on and made an impact as the Cowboys' sniper from long-range, but tonight, he'll face a BYU team that's elite at making and defending 3s.

BYU is 36th in 3-point percentage allowed, and Wright is only a slightly above-average 3-point shooter. Wright would need to make at least four 3-pointers to threaten this number, and he's only done so three times this season.

That number of multiple 3s hits is also in line with his hit rate for this points line. Wright has gone under this number in 26 of 30 games this season.

An 87% hit rate to the under gives us implied odds of -669.

That's an edge you can't pass up.

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