College basketball betting really has four different segments within the entire season. You have the preseason, the conference season, conference tournaments and then March Madness. Each segment on the basketball schedule is different and must be handicapped accordingly. Today we want to look at early season NCAA basketball betting. College basketball betting early in the season consists of non conference games and the early preseason tournaments like the preseason National Invitational Tournament, the Maui Classic and others. Many times you will have some of these smaller tournaments where the home team is hosting the tournament. Handicapping the early stages of a NCAA basketball schedule is difficult for NCAA basketball betting players. You don’t have a good handle on teams early in the year because of the roster turnover and the fact that many of these teams treat these early season games as tune-ups for the regular season.