How to bet the National Championship?

John Martin of the BetMGM Network helps us pick which teams to bet on to win the 2025 Tournament!

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00:00Is this a year, John, where you would look down the board or is it you look at this season?

00:05I know it's college basketball, but you think the list of potential champions is a fairly

00:12short one.

00:13It depends on what you define as short.

00:16I mean, I think I could get you to 10, you know, really short.

00:21I'd say I'd say that's yeah, I think 10 is probably and honestly, like Clemson wasn't

00:28an elite eight team last year.

00:31They were beating Alabama in the first half in that game.

00:33I know they don't like they have to have to play two halves.

00:37That's the problem.

00:38I mean, how much better would most of us be if they just played one half?

00:43You know, we would all be rich, but now they have to play two.

00:48And so but now I mean, and they returned most of those guys, right?

00:51They return Ian Sheffield, they return, you know, the Hunter brothers, you know, Jaden

00:56Zachary's coming into his own.

00:58And they have the ingredients that you need to have to make another run like that.

01:02So listen, is it going to be one of those bets that like is sitting pretty in your account

01:07because you got it at 250 to one and, you know, we get to the end of, you know, conference

01:12tournaments and it's 45 to one, but it loses probably.

01:16But I think you're alive.

01:18I do.

01:19I mean, I, I think you're alive because you have that good balance between, you know,

01:24big play.

01:25I mean, lock in stepping out and hitting threes last night.

01:27If he can do that with any consistency, they're impossible to guard, man.

01:32They really are.

01:33So I think Clemson on that group, you know, I think Iowa State at 16 to one, you know,

01:39Florida, they're 13 to one and then obviously the top three.

01:42I mean, Houston, man, if this can be a year where they can can stay healthy by the end

01:48of it.

01:49And that's always been a problem.

01:50But if they do, I mean, folks, they can shoot the ball.

01:54Their bigs are as physical and tough as it gets.

01:57And nobody is going to want smoke with that front court.

02:00So I think Houston at nine to one, if they're healthy, definitely got a chance.