Michigan vs Texas A&M Odds & Betting Lines – Aggies Open as Slight Chalk
By Sascha Paruk in College Basketball
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- The #4 Texas A&M Aggies will meet the #5 Michigan Wolverines in the second round of the 2025 NCAA Tournament
- The Aggies are coming off a nine-point win over Yale, while UM took down UC San Diego 68-65
- See the opening odds and betting lines for Michigan vs Texas A&M
The #4 Texas A&M Aggies (23-10, 16-13-3 ATS) and the #5 Michigan Wolverines (26-9, 17-18 ATS) will meet on Saturday, March 22, at Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado. The winner will advance to the Sweet 16 where either #1 Auburn or #9 Creighton will be waiting. According to the latest college basketball odds, the Aggies slight favorites to advance to the second weekend.
Opening Michigan vs Texas A&M Odds
Texas A&M has opened as a -1.5 point favorite over the Wolverines and slight -125 chalk on the moneyline. The Wolverines come back as +105 underdogs in the round of 32. The game total has opened at 139.5 with -110 odds on both the over and the under.
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Neither team is seen as much of a threat in the odds to win March Madness. Michigan is +6000 while Texas A&M is longer at +10000, despite being favored in their head-to-head matchup.
Aggies Get by Yale
Texas A&M earned a comfortable win over #13 Yale, leading by 11 at halftime and never allowing the Bulldogs within six points in the second. Junior forward Pharrel Payne (9.4 PPG, 4.9 RPG) finished with a game-high (and career-high) 25 points and 10 rebounds in an 80-71 win for Texas A&M.
The Aggies won comfortably despite hitting just 25% of their shots from three (6-of-25). They dominated the post, finishing with a 48-32 edge in points in the paint and a 37-29 edge in rebounds.
MICH vs TEX A&M Ratings Comparison
Michigan’s ratings are from prior to Thursday’s games.
Michigan Puts Tritons Upset Bid to Rest
The Wolverines looked to be on their way to an easy win as well in the first round, taking a 14-point lead into halftime against #12 UC San Diego. But the Tritons came almost all the way back, pulling within a single point (45-44) less than six minutes into the second half.
Dusty May’s team showed its mettle by immediately stretching the lead back to double-digits over the next three minutes, only to give it all back and find itself trailing by one with under two minutes to play. But as they’ve done all season, Michigan came out on the right side of a hyper-close game. would end up on the right side of a 68-65 win65. Michigan has now won 12 games this season by four points or fewer.
Vladislav Goldin had a team-high 14 points while Danny Wolf’s game-high 11 rebounds helped the Wolverines finish +6 on the glass.
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Sascha has been working in the sports-betting industry since 2014, and quickly paired his strong writing skills with a burgeoning knowledge of probability and statistics. He holds an undergraduate degree in linguistics and a Juris Doctor from the University of British Columbia.
