When high altitude NCAA teams come down

Some articles have been written about the value of playing at high altitude. But what happens when those teams come down to face teams at sea level? Some people have come up with the idea that high altitude teams might be overvalued when they play on the road. Why is this the case? Well, if you think about it logically, you can come to the conclusion that thin-air teams often perform better at home than they should. They have better results at home, which makes people think they are better than they are actually are.

With this in mind, when those teams go out on the road, it can sometimes come back to haunt them. They can run into problems and the spread will be inflated already. This is why these teams often struggle to cover spreads away from home. Think about this the next time you go to make your college basketball picks. You might find that there is some value in betting against the thin air teams when they come to play the teams at sea level. This is not always true, but it is true in enough settings for it to be useful to sports bettors out there.