Current Top Contenders for NCAA #1 Tournament Seed

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00:00Here are the odds right now to be a number one seed in the NCAA

00:05tournament. Auburn, a very hefty, hefty favorite minus

00:0920,000. Donnie, I would be absolutely stunned if something

00:14happened down the tail end of this season for Auburn, SEC

00:18regular season, SEC tournament for the Tigers not to be on the

00:21one line or even in fact, the number one overall seed in the

00:25tournament. Duke, a hefty favorite. Alabama, a big

00:29favorite as well. Donnie, you see five teams with a minus 20

00:33price. Houston, not necessarily chalky, but I'll tell you this

00:37right now. The value on the board is in one spot. It's the

00:41Florida Gators playing like a one seed deserving of the one

00:45line and you don't have to lay a lot of money for it on Florida

00:49right now at minus 115. I'm interested to see too because

00:52you look at that graphic and you know, it's SEC heavy, which

00:55means heading down the stretch. These teams will play each

00:57other a lot and to the victor goes the spoils as we like to

01:00say, but you still then have to play them in conference play.

01:03If we do shift our odds down the board, Ben, you take a look

01:05at Iowa State getting over 10 to one currently at a 16 to one

01:08price say, well, that's interesting. Like a top 10 team.

01:11What do they have to do? They do play at Houston coming up,

01:14which is on February 22. If they can win that game, obviously

01:18that would be massive. But understand this, they're going

01:21to play Colorado who's bad. Oklahoma State on the road. Not

01:23that great. Arizona, who's a quality team, but where they got

01:26a bed at home and then BYU at home and then on the road in the

01:29octagon of doom at Kansas State. Then of course, they're going to

01:32have to play the big 12. But if there's a chance where those SEC

01:35teams just beat each other and play a little round Robin and

01:38you get an Iowa State victory on the road against Houston and

01:41then somehow maybe play for the big 12 championship, let's just

01:45say it's against Houston, lose that game. There's still a

01:47chance you can get that number one seed. I'm just looking at

01:49price points. If I had to bet on a number one, I actually think

01:52Houston at minus 110 makes a lot of sense to be on that one

01:55line because they're supposed to win that game on the 22nd

01:57going head to head with Iowa State, which would be a nice

01:59win on their marker as well. But if I'm looking just for that

02:02bigger price, give me Iowa State at this point.

02:06Yeah, listen, I don't mind the look DRS, but there's not a ton

02:10of quad one opportunities that remain for the Cyclones in this

02:14regular season stretch. I don't say ton. I mean, they're not

02:17playing a gauntlet where five of their final six games are all

02:20quad one spots as of right now, the road game at Houston, a home

02:25game against Arizona in barely barely barely the road test in

02:30the Little Apple against K State in the octagon of doom, Kansas

02:34State right now, 75th in the net, that would be your final

02:39line of a quad one road opportunity. I don't know how

02:44much this changes, unless to your point, one of those SEC

02:48teams really takes a slide down the homestretch of this regular

02:52season, or is ousted one and done in the SEC tournament. And

02:56you're right, they could, but I wonder how that works against

02:59them. If you are playing the best in the SEC, does it really

03:04hurt your resume, at least based on the metrics the committee

03:07uses to knock you off that one line based on what you have

03:11proven so far. Again, I think Florida is a really good bet in

03:16that market, if you can get it. But as we see there, five of

03:21those 10 best prices to be a one seed from the SEC. St. John's is

03:26an interesting one, Donnie 250 to one, the Johnny's on Saturday

03:30in that early bracket preview, checked in as the fourth and

03:34final four seed, that would be 16. Overall, that would be a

03:38very large rise to be on the one line come selection Sunday.

03:43No, you're right. And you look at the remaining games, too. We

03:45love that victory in the garden against Creighton. But then it's

03:48the Paul, it's UConn, it's Butler, it's Seton Hall, and

03:50then finally a top 22 in Marquette, as long as they can

03:53hold on and not lose any games over the next what week to week

03:55and a half at this point, then you head into the Big East

03:57tournament, it would be a long shot at that point. But hey,

03:59we've seen crazier things happen. You run the table, then

04:02run the table through the Big East, a couple of those teams

04:04struggle, the conversations do have to be had, which is fun to

04:07talk about it about a month out.

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