How to Pull College Basketball Odds and Player Props

If you have already built against the NBA, most of your college basketball integration is done. One thing will break, though, and it breaks quietly rather than loudly: college basketball is played in halves, not quarters.

This guide covers the query patterns. For coverage and pricing, see the college basketball odds API page.

The leagueID is NCAAB

College basketball is NCAAB, and it sits under sportID=BASKETBALL alongside the NBA.

curl "https://api.sportsgameodds.com/v2/events?leagueID=NCAAB&oddsAvailable=true&limit=10" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

That returns upcoming college basketball events with every open market attached.

Halves, not quarters

Here is the thing that catches people porting NBA code across.

An oddID built with -1q- has no college equivalent. The request does not error — it comes back empty, which is harder to debug than a failure would be. If a first-quarter query that works for the NBA returns nothing for college, this is why.

# First-half points total for a college game
curl "https://api.sportsgameodds.com/v2/events?leagueID=NCAAB&oddsAvailable=true&oddIDs=points-all-1h-ou-over&includeOpposingOdds=true" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Full-game markets use game and behave identically across both leagues. It is only the period splits that differ.

Player props

The stat vocabulary is shared with the NBA, so props port straight across:

curl "https://api.sportsgameodds.com/v2/events?leagueID=NCAAB&oddsAvailable=true&oddIDs=points-PLAYER_ID-game-ou-over,rebounds-PLAYER_ID-game-ou-over,assists-PLAYER_ID-game-ou-over&includeOpposingOdds=true" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Common basketball statIDs are points, assists, rebounds, threePointersMade, blocks, steals, fieldGoalsMade and freeThrowsMade, plus the combination markets points+rebounds+assists, points+assists, points+rebounds, rebounds+assists and blocks+steals.

Two details worth pinning down, because both cost people time:

• Combination stats use plus signs, not underscores. It's points+rebounds+assists, not points_rebounds_assists.
• Three-pointers are threePointersMade, in camel case.

PLAYER_ID is a wildcard for any player; swap in a specific player ID to narrow to one.

Pulling the NBA and college board together

Drop leagueID and pass sportID=BASKETBALL to get both in one request:

curl "https://api.sportsgameodds.com/v2/events?sportID=BASKETBALL&oddsAvailable=true&limit=25" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Each event carries its own leagueID, so you can split them apart on your side. Just remember the period difference when parsing: NBA markets come back on quarters, college markets on halves. If you are normalising both into one schema, that is the field to branch on.

Coverage varies by game

As with college football, market depth is not uniform. Ranked and major-conference matchups carry the most markets; smaller games reliably carry spread, moneyline and total, with props where individual books price them. Check byBookmaker on each odd rather than assuming a market is present.

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