This article is part of our DraftKings College Basketball series.
Welcome to another Saturday of college basketball at DraftKings. Your total available salary is $50,000 to build a squad of eight players, which includes three guards, three forwards and two FLEX. Points are awarded on DraftKings as follows:
Point = +1 point PT
Made 3pt. shot = +0.5 PTs
Rebound = +1.25 PTs
Assist = +1.5 PTs
Double-Double = +1.5 PTs
Triple-Double= +3 PTs
With that out of the way, here are the available Guaranteed Prize Pool (GPP) contests for college basketball this Saturday:
$7K Full Court Press ($1,000 first prize), Entry Fee: $27
$5K Buzzer Beater ($500 first prize), Entry Fee: $2
$4K Bank Shot ($2,000 first prize), Entry Fee: $200
$2.5K Full Court Press ($550 first prize), Entry Fee: $27
$2K Buzzer Beater ($250 first prize), Entry Fee: $2
$2K Big Dance ($700 first prize), Entry Fee: $100
$1.5K Big Dance ($700 first prize), Entry Fee: $100
$1.5K Fast Break ($200 first prize), Entry Fee: $12
$1K Fast Break ($150 first prize), Entry Fee: $12
$300 Quarter Arcade ($43.50 first prize), Entry Fee: $0.25
and many more…
There are three sets of contest times with the following games included:
12pm – 2pm Eastern
Baylor at West Virginia
Creighton at Saint John's
Illinois at Michigan State
Marquette at Seton Hall
Tennessee at Georgia
Wake Forest at Georgia Tech
Notre Dame at Duke
Providence at Xavier
Temple at Memphis
Georgetown at Villanova
Kansas at Oklahoma State
Texas Tech at Iowa State
3pm-6pm
Florida State at Virginia Tech
Oklahoma at TCU
Purdue at Minnesota
North Carolina at Boston College
DePaul at Butler
Michigan State at Arkansas
Nebraska at Penn State
Syracuse at Pittsburgh
South Carolina at Vanderbilt
Texas at Kansas State
Arizona at Arizona State
Northwestern at Wisconsin
Alabama at LSU
Connecticut at Tulane
Texas A&M at Missouri
6pm-11:30pm
Alabama at LSU
Connecticut at Tulane
Texas A&M at Missouri
Mississippi at Auburn
Louisville at Virginia
SMU at Tulsa
UCLA at California
South Florida at Cincinnati
Kentucky at Florida
Utah at Colorado
Gonzaga at San Francisco
Football is now officially now behind us and full focus may be lent on basketball, specifically of the collegiate brand. We have an enormous plate of 35 games, 70 teams and some 350 players to cipher through. Few, if any, will truly have time to go through and make a fair assessment of 350 individuals. To help a bit with that, I offer you some tools that can assist.
First rule of business, laziness is often a means to and end – that end here being efficiency. There are sources that allow someone else, who's paid for what they do by the way, to make some of our decisions for us. Though not typically available until the morning of, utilizing the bookmaker over/unders and spreads are an easy means to figuring out the shape of a game. Anything over 140 points is generally considered a high over/under while anything under 120 points is generally considered low – obviously the higher the over/under, the higher the fantasy points total created within that game.
A second third party source to capitalize on would be through cross format price comparison. This method can be slightly misleading as varying fantasy formats utilize different scoring, but can nonetheless be meaningful when deciphered correctly. This being a DraftKings centered article, and FanDuel being the other large name, it will be the basis for this method in this article. FanDuel counts blocks, steals and turnovers - DraftKings does not, and players with particularly high figures in these categories will be understandably more expensive on FanDuel. Here are recommendations to target based upon this method.
Guards:
Kelly Oubre Jr., Kansas, $5900 - Oubre Jr. is 14 percent higher at $6700 on FanDuel. Coming off a 27.75 FPT performance with 26.5 FPTS in his last match-up with the Oklahoma State Cowboys in mid-January, Oubre Jr. will look to capitalize.
Alex Barlow, Butler, $5300 - I can't really tell you why Barlow is listed at the medial price of $5300 on DraftKings. Over his last four games he's averaging 28 FPTS (5.3 FPTS per dollar) and gets a favorable matchup against a DePaul team that prefers a game with some pace to it. Barlow is bordering on must-use status.
Cameron Wright, Pittsburgh, $5200 - Averaging 23 FPTS (4.4 FPTS per dollar) over his last three outings, Wright will look to capitalize on a shorthanded Syracuse backcourt.
Wes Clark, Missouri, $5700 - Clark has had two bad shooting performances over his last two games. Prior to that he put up 31.5 FPTS versus Kentucky and 30.25 FPTS (5.3 FPTS per dollar) against an A&M team he'll get a rematch with at home. A repeat performance from the last time these two teams met up would mark Clark at monstrous value.
Forwards:
Jalen Reynolds, Xavier, $5400 - Reynolds has averaged 27.75 FPTS (5.1 FPTS per dollar) over his last two games, and he posted 34.75 FPTS against Providence earlier this season. He's a nice target with a cushy home matchup.
Chris Washburn, TCU, $4800 - A matchup against the running-gunning Oklahoma Sooners make Washburn enticing. Sure he only scored 10.5 FPTS last time out, but he was 0-for-8 shooting from the floor. Given his 26.5 FPTS against Kansas a few games ago, Washburn looks likely to rebound.
J.P. Tokoto, North Carolina, $5700 - Tokoto struggled against the Virginia defense, as has every other Division I program this year. Boston College will put up no such challenge and the athletic Tokoto will look to return to the form that saw him put up 30.75 FPTS against Louisville.
Kameron Woods/Andrew Chrabascz, Butler, $6100/$5200 - Chrabascz would be the slightly more recommended of the two due to his recent surge in production that saw him put up a 42 FPTS on Marquette. Both serve as good targets.
Jamee Crockett, DePaul, $4700 - Crockett is, or maybe I should say was, a good player going through hard times. If his 28.5 FPT performance last time out is any indication to what we can look to see going forward, he's an exciting proposition.
Dwight Coleby, Mississippi, $3600 - If things run tight, and some dough needs to be set aside, Coleby is a solid option as a value pick.
Below are a few good values to help fill in those lineup gaps.
Guards:
Rysheed Jordan, St. John's, $6600
James Milliken, Creighton, $4800
Isaiah Whitehead, Seton Hall, $6500
Mitchell Wilbekin, Wake Forest, $4200
Frank Mason III, Kansas, $7000
Monte Morris, Iowa State, $7500
Trey Zeigler, TCU, $5600
Nate Britt, North Carolina, $4200
Craig Sword, Mississippi State, $5600
Josh Gasser, Wisconsin, $4300
Antoine Mason, Auburn, $5700
Forwards
Devin Williams, West Virginia, $6100
Taurean Prince, Baylor, $6300
Angel Delgado, Seton Hall, $7000
Armani Moore, Tennessee, $6400
Demarco Cox, Georgia Tech, $5000
Le'Bryan Nash, Oklahoma State, $7400
Georges Niang, Iowa State, $8500
Phil Cofer, Florida State, $3900
Brice Johnson, North Carolina, $7900
Johnathan Williams III, Missouri, $6400
Jordan Mickey, LSU, $9400
