March Madness Round 1: Yale vs Auburn Odds Analysis & Score
The Yale vs Auburn Odds Has the Fourth-Seeded Tigers As Double-Digit Favorite
Yale vs Auburn Final Score
Can Yale Hang Around with Another Power-5 Conference Team?
After rallying from six points down with less than 30 seconds to play to win the Ivy League tournament, Yale’s reward is a trip to Spokane to face an Auburn team that finished a game out of first place in the SEC during the regular season. The Yale vs Auburn odds list the Tigers as double-digit favorites.
Auburn Tigers is coming off a run to the SEC tournament title and looks to make a run in the East Region as the No. 4 seed after beating Yale by 22 points the last time the teams met.
The college basketball lines list Tigers as 13-point favorites with Auburn priced at -850 to win the game outright.
Auburn made a move in the NCAA men’s basketball rankings, going from 12th to seventh in both the Associated Press and USA Today coaches polls.
The rankings for March Madness have Auburn tied for seventh in +1800 in the odds to win the national title. Yale is well back at +50000 in the championship odds.
Keep on reading for more on the matchup between Yale and Auburn.
Yale Bulldogs vs Auburn Tigers 
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Location: Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, Spokane, WA
Streaming: TNT
More Madness for the Bulldogs
Facing a national title contender from the Power-5 conference is nothing new for Yale at this time of the year.
This will be the fifth straight NCAA tournament game against a team from one of the power conferences. While Yale had no answers for Purdue in the 2022 game, the Bulldogs threw a scare into LSU in 2019 before losing 69-74 as the seven-pint underdog.
In 2016, Yale stunned Baylor 79-75 leading to one of the most memorable post-game video clips in recent March Madness history when Baylor’s Taurean Price deadpanned an explanation of what a rebound is when he was asked how Yale outrebounded the favored Bears.
March 17, 2016: After 12-seed Yale upset 5-seed Baylor in the first round of the #NCAATournament, Baylor’s Taurean Prince gives an epic answer during the postgame presser when asked how the Bears were outrebounded.
pic.twitter.com/EizVZSkUCd— This Day In Sports Clips (@TDISportsClips) March 17, 2024
Yale threw a scare into Duke in that tournament in the next game before losing by seven.
August Mahoney and Matt Knowling each had eight points in Yale’s most recent NCAA tournament game. That could factor into the Yale vs Auburn odds.
Yale has covered in four of its last five games.
Tigers Seem Ready to Roar
When the calendar flipped from February to March, Auburn began to play some of its best basketball of the season.
Auburn is 6-0 in March with five of the wins coming by double digits. That is something to consider when it comes to the Yale vs Auburn odds.
Johni Broome is averaging 15.8 points on 51% shooting and 7.3 rebounds per game, Denver Jones is putting up 12.8 points per game while Chad Baker-Mazzara is averaging 10.5 points per game as Auburn hasn’t trailed in the second half in any of those six games.
Auburn won its only game this season against an Ivy League team as Broome had 24 points and 12 rebounds in an 88-66 win over Penn.
Auburn is 4-2 against the college basketball spread over its last six games.
Last Meeting
When looking at recent college basketball scores, Auburn never trailed in a 22-point home win over Yale in 2021 as a 15.5-point favorite. KD Johnson led Auburn with 19 points in the win while Bez Mbeng and Austin Mahoney are the only current Yale players who were on the court for at least 10 minutes in the game. The game went over the 149.5-point total on a Yale foul shot with 22 seconds to play.
Yale vs Auburn Betting Preview
Plenty of new faces have emerged since the last time that Yale and Auburn squared off. Are the Bulldogs ready to make things difficult for the red-hot Tigers?
Yale Bulldogs ranks 11th nationally with just 9.5 turnovers per game and the Bulldogs are in the top 50 in fouls per game so the Bulldogs won’t beat themselves.
Auburn senior guard Lior Berman is out with a knee injury.
Auburn has topped 80 points four times in the last five games. In Yale’s two games against ranked teams this season, the Bulldogs allowed 80.5 points per game.
The Tigers are 27-5 this season when listed as the favorite with Yale going 2-5 as the underdog.
Auburn has covered in six of its eight games played at neutral sites but just two of those games finished over the total.
Four of Yale’s last five games went over the total. The total is set at 141 points for this NCAAB matchup.
The Bulldogs have lost their last 10 games to SEC teams. However, Auburn has covered in just one of its last five matchups with Ivy League teams.
Look for Auburn to advance on to face either San Diego State or UAB in the second round with a potential matchup with defending national champion UConn looming. Yale is a solid pick as the double-digit underdog.
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