Exploring NCAA Tournament Betting: Duke and Alabama Odds

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00:00And you have a future on Duke, if I remember correctly, right?

00:02So maybe it's just a factor of people moving or hedging out

00:07a future, potentially, because this is the time to do it.

00:09A Final Four future and a championship future

00:12for a team like Duke, which I have to assume is very popular,

00:15there's many people moving to Alabama

00:17just to get some action on the other side to secure a profit.

00:22Yeah, I decided to take a leap of faith

00:23with those scrappy Blue Devils just

00:25to see if they were going to be decent here in the tournament.

00:28Turns out, they're OK.

00:30But you know what?

00:31Honestly, like, mockery aside, we always

00:34talk about value in the number.

00:35Like, I got Duke pre-tournament at plus 4-something, anyway.

00:42And right now, it's plus 170, looking at the FanDuel

00:45National Championship odds.

00:47So that's fairly considerable movement for a team

00:49that I realized was a betting favorite going into the tourney,

00:52but it's still a much better number than exists right now.

00:55And you've got Florida plus 320, and then you

00:57get to Auburn at 5-to-1, Houston 6-to-1,

01:00Bama at 13-to-1, Tennessee at 15-to-1

01:03before you start to get to a pair of 24-to-1s

01:06in Michigan State and Texas Tech.

01:09Is there value in any of these numbers

01:11that you would be interested in investing in now?

01:14Yeah, I said this the other day to Ben and Donnie

01:16on the early line.

01:17I think the play is still Alabama at 13-to-1,

01:19solely due to leverage.

01:21This is not saying, like, I believe

01:22they're going to beat Duke, they're, like, the best team.

01:24But if they do happen to beat Duke,

01:26and theoretically Tennessee beats Houston,

01:30those two teams are lopped off in front of them,

01:32and you would have great close in the lineup.

01:34That's simply just based on where the odds are,

01:35not saying that I'd like them to beat Duke, I don't.

01:37We just have to look at the odds

01:38and what they're presenting us.