Early Look at 2025-2026 NCAA Basketball Betting Odds

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00:00Is it ever too early to look at next year's college basketball odds

00:04in a 2025-26 campaign?

00:07Maybe it's way too early we do so anyway.

00:10Where do the reigning national champs, the Gators,

00:12check in in next year's national championship prices?

00:16Not inside the top 10 DRS.

00:18A 25-to-1 number that is currently the 12th best price

00:23on the FanDuel Sportsbook alongside a host of others,

00:27including Texas Tech, Michigan, Eric Patino, and St. John.

00:32So who is next year's national championship favorite?

00:35This year's preseason national championship favorite as well in Duke.

00:39A 10-to-1 number on the Blue Devils.

00:41Of course, the team could look very, very different from how it did this year,

00:46but plenty more talented freshmen making their way to Durham

00:48to start next season as well.

00:50You're number four under John Shire.

00:52Here's the tough part about it, right?

00:53Because you do see a lot of clusters there.

00:5510-to-1, 20-to-1, 25-to-1, because it used to be, okay,

00:59who are they coming back as seniors?

01:01And also on top of that, who is that recruiting class?

01:03Now that you have obviously the transfer portal,

01:05we don't know who any of these players will be.

01:07Like look at Kansas, 16-to-1 price.

01:08Hey, they might be really good.

01:10Who's staying on that team?

01:11Who are they going to pay to come in on that team?

01:13That's what we don't understand.

01:14But it is fun to try to analyze where certain teams would be

01:17and teams that we're used to not seeing up top, like BYU at 16-to-1,

01:21maybe having the best overall player coming into town,

01:23into their camp for next year.

01:25But it is fun because you get a lot of teams, Ben,

01:27let's just say 35-to-1 or less, that if you know,

01:31I'm not saying like inside information,

01:32like I know exactly the starting five is going to be next year.

01:34You hit it right, man.

01:36Probably the same thing we talked about the Florida Gators to open.

01:38If you pick the Florida Gators from jump last year

01:41and you're sitting at the tournament at a plus 320 price entering in it,

01:44it's one of the best numbers you're going to see.

01:45If you have a lot of conviction about any of these teams,

01:48maybe you can get it now.

01:50Of course, you'd be holding on to a national championship for about a year.

01:53As next year, college basketball's Final Four

01:55in the men's NCAA tournament will be in DRS's favorite city.

01:59That is Indianapolis.

02:01But Donnie, these odds are going to change so much in the next few weeks.

02:06For these teams that just played in a Final Four this weekend in San Antonio,

02:10now they have to deal with the transfer portal.

02:12Players exiting, players declaring for the NBA draft,

02:15and of course those they hope to retain

02:17and then bring in through the transfer portal this offseason as well.

02:22We do think many of those talented freshmen for the Blue Devils,

02:25Cooper Flagg, Con Knipple, come on, Malawatch,

02:28are going to go to the NBA draft.

02:30Who returns and who is coming?

02:32Cameron Boozer, the third best recruit nationally,

02:35and yes, the son of Carlos Boozer,

02:37who played his college hoops in Durham as well.

02:40Might have even been John Shire's teammate under Coach K.

02:43But regardless, Cam Boozer makes his way to Duke.

02:47As you look at the rest of the national championship prices,

02:50Houston will have some experience coming back.

02:52A 12-1 number on the Cougs.

02:54Louisville and Pat Kelsey in a very successful opening year there for the Cards.

02:59Already the best transfer portal class in the country as of this moment.

03:03They've been attacking it in Purdue

03:05with the man you see on your screen right there.

03:08Big Ten Player of the Year in Brayden Smith.

03:10He is expected to return to West Lafayette,

03:13as is Trey Kaufman-Wren,

03:15and they add in one of the best bigs in the transfer portal

03:18in Oscar Clough from South Dakota State,

03:21who averaged 17 points and more than 12 boards per game.

03:24Donnie, I'll say this.

03:25Based on retention and what I know is returning for the Boilers,

03:28I think the number I'm most confident in,

03:31if I had to bet it right now, would be Purdue at a 14-1 price.

03:34That's pretty crazy at that point, too,

03:35because you take a look at the SEC,

03:37we're not expecting a fall-off from them.

03:38Look at the 18-1s coming in.

03:40Coach Cal in Arkansas, 18-1 Auburn,

03:4318-1 Connecticut there out of the Big East,

03:4418-1 for Alabama, and then 20-1 sitting there for Kentucky.

03:48And then, of course, we just talked about the national champion,

03:50the Florida Gators.

03:51So much money to go around now.

03:52It's going to be interesting to see where some of these kids

03:54actually wind up.

03:55But as Ben points out,

03:56right now you're looking at flyers here.

03:58Let me take a couple pieces for a team that I think is going to come back

04:01and I know has some NIL money to spend,

04:02because you might take a look and say,

04:04well, hey, I like Houston,

04:05and they lose three starters there,

04:06and they drop back to 36-1.

04:08But you might take a look at Tennessee at 30-1,

04:10get a couple key transfers.

04:11Now all of a sudden, they're 15-1.

04:13It's a fun market.

04:14It's almost like the stock market this early,

04:16because you don't know how it's going to play off.

04:18You're just trying to take a really good, educated guess.

04:20So,

04:21okay,

04:21let's go,

04:21one of the items in go so you can go.

04:24Schweiz,

04:25would I in-

04:39to be if you don't want to go on,

04:40excuse me.

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