Kentucky Wins It All; Can Go $^&@ Itself - 2013 NCAA Tournament Odds
Well, I was wrong.
I was one of the few people in the country that wasn’t enamored with the Kentucky Wildcats this year. I didn’t doubt their talent. But I definitely did not think that they were the slam-dunk, no-doubt national champion that everyone else in the bobblehead media did.
Kentucky demolished Kansas last night in a national championship game that wasn’t nearly as close as the 67-59 final score indicated. They are the kings of the college basketball world and their scumbag coach and obnoxious, self-important fan base get to rub peanut butter all over themselves and ‘gasm all offseason while thinking about this team.
Well, chalk up a victory for the squares. It does happen sometimes.
(Although, in a way, I was still right about Kentucky this year. They were overrated. This team went just 16-22 against the spread this year against the college basketball odds. And that includes a 5-1 ATS run in the NCAA Tournament. They were just 11-21 ATS entering The Big Dance and I can say that I made a decent chunk betting against them this season.)
But me, I’m on to next year.
Since it is not a sportsbook affiliated with Doc’s Sports Services I’m not going to post the name or the link to the site where I got these. (Hint: it rhymes with The Bleek.) And I, personally, feel like college basketball futures betting this far out is only for people that don’t like money. We still don’t know who is leaving for the NBA and who is staying, as well as how the coaching/recruiting carousels are going to end up or which players are going to blow out their ACL or get busted with weed this offseason, so it is next to impossible to accurately gauge the landscape of the sport.
But I need to do something to start looking forward and try to put the images of Syracuse getting screwed out of the Final Four and Coach Cal cutting down the nets out of my memory bank.
Here are the odds to win the 2013 NCAA tournament, some March Madness odds, and odds to win the 2012-13 college basketball national title:
Alabama +3000
Arizona +2000
Arizona State +10000
Baylor +2500
Butler +5000
BYU +8000
California +5000
Clemson +7500
Colorado +3000
Creighton +2000
Duke +1500
Florida +1200
Florida State +2000
Georgetown +3000
Georgia +10000
Georgia Tech +10000
Gonzaga +5000
Illinois +6000
Indiana +650
Iowa +10000
Kansas +2000
Kansas State +12500
Kentucky +850
Louisville +600
LSU +12500
Marquette +5000
Maryland +3000
Memphis +1500
Miami Florida +5000
Michigan +1500
Michigan State +2500
Mississippi +10000
Mississippi State +12500
Missouri +10000
North Carolina +1000
North Carolina State +1500
Notre Dame +5000
Ohio State +1500
Oklahoma +6000
Oklahoma State +8000
Oregon +5000
Pittsburgh +3000
Purdue +10000
San Diego State +3000
Seton Hall +10000
Southern Cal +12500
Stanford +2500
St Johns +2000
Syracuse +1800
Tennessee +3000
Texas +3000
Texas A&M +5000
UCLA +1500
UNLV +1200
Vanderbilt +10000
Villanova +6000
Virginia Tech +10000
Wake Forest +12500
Washington +6000
Washington State +8000
West Virginia +5000
Wisconsin +3500
Xavier +15000
Field +1500
