Vermont Catamounts

The Catamounts won 22 of 34 games in 2025-26 and covered only 13 of 31 spreads, five of them in 15 road games. They were favored 26 times, and laying the price in those games still lost 1.51 units.

Winning without covering

Vermont went 22-12 and was the favorite in 26 of its 34 games. Against the spread it covered 13 of 31 lined games, 41.9%, a rate 299 Division I teams bettered. As favorites the Catamounts covered 11 of 26. No month finished in profit on the moneyline: November lost 1.19 units, December 1.16, January 0.53, February 1.07 and March 0.55.

The road number

At home they covered 7 of 13. Away it was 5 of 15, 33.3%: only 31 Division I teams posted a lower road cover rate, and 12 more sat level with it. Straight up they were 13-3 at home, 8-7 away and 1-2 at neutral sites.

Blind support lost

We would not have backed them blind: one unit on Vermont in each of the 31 priced games lost 4.51 units, 3.24 of it away from home. The shortest price that failed was a 77-79 home loss to NJIT at -1450 on 31 January. As underdogs they won once in six, 85-74 at Northeastern at +100.

NJIT, Bryant, UMBC

Three meetings with NJIT: Vermont won two and covered none, including a 63-54 conference semifinal win laid at 10.5. Three with Bryant: three wins, three covers, the last a 77-57 America East quarterfinal laid at 11.5. The conference final went the other way, a 59-74 loss at UMBC as +124 underdogs.

The total

Vermont games went over 17 times and under 15, with no lean in either direction.

Points

The Catamounts allowed 68.53 points a game, a figure 49 programs bettered, and scored 73.41. Their longest winning run, five games, went from 21 February to the 10 March semifinal.

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