Matt Youmans

1 month ago | vsin.com | Matt Youmans

No grades will be handed out for the 2025 NFL Draft. No teams will be labeled as losers. My mission in evaluating the NFL Draft each year is to identify the biggest winners.  ***Top NFL Resources****Join thousands of other sports bettors and unlock access to picks, public betting splits data, & the VSiN live video broadcast by upgrading to VSiN Pro.

2 months ago | vsin.com | Matt Youmans

With so much media hype and speculation surrounding the NFL Draft, the event has turned into a soap opera of sorts. The most polarizing characters, aside from Mel Kiper Jr., are typically the quarterbacks, with this draft’s most dramatic actor being Shedeur Sanders. As the betting world turns, quarterbacks are often the key to the action. The most popular prop most years — how many quarterbacks will go in the first round — is not an especially hot one this year.

Mar 19, 2025 | vsin.com | Matt Youmans

Instead of avoiding the elephant in the room, it’s best to immediately confront it. A college basketball team that many of us despised for many years has suddenly become likable. That team, of course, is Duke. The player who makes that team possible to admire and even root for is freshman phenom Cooper Flagg. As a longtime critic of Mike Krzyzewski, it’s not easy for me to write nice things about the Blue Devils. However, Coach K retired in 2022, and a dark cloud lifted.

Mar 10, 2025 | vsin.com | Matt Youmans

At this time a year ago, absolutely no one was talking about North Carolina State, which finished the college basketball regular season on a four-game losing streak. However, Kevin Keatts coached the Wolfpack to five wins in five days — upsetting Duke and North Carolina — to win the ACC tournament and reach the NCAA tournament as a No. 11 seed. Some will say Championship Week, with all of the major conference tournaments in action, is the best week of the year for college basketball betting.

Feb 13, 2025 | vsin.com | Matt Youmans

As a sharpshooting guard at Cal Poly from 1993 to 1995, David Dineen was money from the 3-point line. Last year, Dineen was the sharpest handicapper in the Circa College Hoops Challenge, a VSiN-produced contest that is returning for the third consecutive season. A field of 15 contestants will compete in a college basketball contest that begins this weekend and extends to the NCAA championship game on April 7.