NCAAB March Madness Elite Eight UConn vs. Duke Player Props Best Bets

The 2026 March Madness tournament has already flown by. We’ve got half of the Final Four all set with Arizona and Illinois winning on Saturday, but we’ve still got two massive Elite Eight matchups on Sunday afternoon. Tennessee-Michigan is at 12:15 p.m. ET, and the final game of the second weekend of the Madness pits No. 2 UConn vs. No. 1 Duke.

The Blue Devils come in as a pretty significant favorite, but not so much that this is expected to be an uncompetitive game. But which players will carry their teams in this matchup? Which players will etch their names in March Madness lore with a big Elite Eight performance? Read on for our favorite player props as well as the top March Madness betting odds for the game.

March Madness - No. 2 UConn vs. No. 1 Duke Player Prop Best Bets - March 29, 3:05 p.m.

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Cameron Boozer, F, Duke Blue Devils - To Score 20+ Points (-182)

A shoo-in to be named this season’s Player of the Year, Duke freshman forward Cameron Boozer seems to be a generational talent. He might even be better than his NBA All-Star father, Carlos Boozer. But Boozer the elder did do one thing at Duke that the younger has not yet: win a National Championship.

If 2026 Duke wants to follow in the footsteps of that legendary 2001 team, Cameron Boozer will need to continue scoring the way he has to start the tourney. He’s gone for 22, 19, and 22, and if we’re being honest, he hasn’t even really had a great game yet.

He’s shot under 45 percent in two of his three March Madness games, but he scored 22 points in both of those games. His ability to be dangerous off the ball while also dominating the paint at 6’9” means he finds so many ways to score it’s tough to keep him below that 20-point threshold. He has hit this marker in six of his last eight games while averaging just under 36.5 minutes a game.

Tarris Reed Jr., C, UConn Huskies - To Score 15+ Points (+150)

One of several Huskies that will be looking to counter Boozer’s star power is UConn big man Tarris Reed Jr. He has arguably been one of the stars of the tournament so far. In round one, he went nuclear with 31 points and 27 rebounds, including a 12-for-15 mark from the field. He went quiet in a blowout win over UCLA in Round 2, but he had 20 massive points earlier this weekend in a win over Michigan State.

Reed has been a menace in the month of March, scoring 16+ points in five of seven games. He’s averaging 16.7 points during that span, and with a plus matchup against Duke center Patrick Ngongba II (who’s just coming back from injury) on the menu, Reed should continue his heroics in the nation’s capital on Sunday afternoon.