Maryland vs Wisconsin Prediction, Picks & Odds for Tonight's College Basketball Game

Farmer's Prediction: Some Wisconsin shooting struggles linger as season wraps up.

Douglas Farmer - Betting Analyst at Covers
Douglas Farmer • Betting Analyst
Mar 4, 2026 • 16:12 ET • 4 min read

NCAAB

Match starts: 2 hrs
MD
42 %
WIS
58 %
EXPERT PICK - PROP
Nick Boyd u1.5  3 Point FG (+110) Nick Boyd u1.5 3 Point FG (+110)
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Nicholas Boyd Wisconsin Badgers NCAAB
Photo By - Reuters Connect. Nicholas Boyd drives against Iowa.

The Wisconsin Badgers are in a ripe lookahead spot tonight, in part because the Maryland Terrapins are so bad in nearly every way.

My Maryland vs. Wisconsin predictions and these college basketball predictions put no faith in the Terps, but they also doubt the Badgers to stay focused at tip at 8 p.m. ET on Wednesday, March 4.

Maryland vs Wisconsin prediction

Maryland vs Wisconsin best bet: Nicholas Boyd Under 1.5 3-pointers (+110)

While the Wisconsin Badgers should rout the Maryland Terrapins and in large part thanks to their sharpshooting offense, lead guard Nick Boyd has been in a shooting slump of late.

Boyd has gone just 2-of-14 from deep in his last four games, despite playing at least 32 minutes in each of them.

Boyd may, quite frankly, ease off the minutes tonight. Wisconsin would be wise to give his legs a bit of a rest before March begins in earnest. Logic wonders if fatigue is leading to his poor shooting.

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Maryland vs Wisconsin same-game parlay

Boyd’s poor shooting has kept him below 15 points in two of his last four games, but no amount of poor shooting should keep Maryland in this game.

Maryland vs Wisconsin SGP

  • Nicholas Boyd Under 1.5 3-pointers
  • Nicholas Boyd Under 20.5 points
  • Wisconsin First Half -7.5

Our beyond the arc SGP: On Wisconsin

Wisconsin is coming off a two-game road trip to the Pacific Northwest. Some rest in the closing minutes would help the Badgers recover a bit.

Maryland vs Wisconsin SGP

  • Nicholas Boyd Under 1.5 3-Pointers
  • Nicholas Boyd Under 20.5 Points
  • Wisconsin First Half -7.5
  • Maryland +14.5

Maryland vs Wisconsin odds

  • Spread: Maryland +14.5 | Wisconsin -14.5
  • Moneyline: Maryland +850 | Wisconsin -1400
  • Over/Under: Over 154 | Under 154

Maryland vs Wisconsin betting trend to know

Maryland has gone 5-2 against the spread in its last seven games, including 5-0 ATS as a multi-bucket underdog. Find more college basketball betting trends for Maryland vs. Wisconsin.

How to watch Maryland vs Wisconsin

Location Kohl Center, Madison, WI
Date Wednesday, March 4, 2026
Tip-off 8:00 p.m. ET
TV FS1

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Douglas Farmer
Betting Analyst

Douglas Farmer spends his days thinking about college football and his nights thinking about the NBA. His betting habits and coverage follow that same pattern. He covered Notre Dame football for various outlets from 2008 to 2024, most notably spending eight seasons as NBC Sports’ beat writer on the Irish. That was also when his gambling focus took off. Knowing there were veteran beat writers with three decades more experience than he had, Douglas found his niche by best recognizing Notre Dame’s standing in each year’s national landscape, a complex tapestry most easily understood and remembered via betting odds.

In 2021, that interest created a freelance opportunity with Covers, a role that eventually led to Douglas joining the company full-time in 2023. In the fall, Douglas will place five or six dozen bets each week, a disproportionate amount via BetRivers because the operator tends to have lines slightly different than the rest of the market. The same can be said of Circa Sports’ futures markets.

While Douglas is an avid NBA fan and covers the league throughout the year, the vast majority of his bets are on college football, because that is the biggest key to sports betting: Know what you do not know.

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