NCAA Basketball Futures Odds - Bet on College Basketball

With Wild-Card Weekend set to kick off and Super Bowl LVII soon to follow, it’s time to start paying a bit more attention to what’s going down on the college basketball hardwood so as to make sure you’re not clueless once March Madness arrives. College basketball betting has been going down since early November with conference play picking up in early December. That means the online sportsbook has been offering up daily betting odds for over two months now. The futures odds were made available immediately after the Kansas Jayhawks cut the nets down back in early April, and I’m here to tell you which teams to add to the portfolio now before any more value is sucked out of the offerings.

With this being my first deep dive of the College Basketball futures odds, I wanted to take more of a lay of the land approach and break down some of the bigger surprises and disappointments through the first two-plus month of the CBB betting season. Next week’s article will offer up my initial fliers to take on a favorite, underdog, and long shot. We situated ourselves very nicely for the playoffs this past NFL season. Here’s to the good times continuing in the college ranks!

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2022-2023 NCAA Tournament Odds

*Odds as of Monday, January 9, 3:00 PM ET

Purdue Boilermakers

Marr Painter’s Boilers have made a serious and unforeseen run to the top of the leaderboard. After initially opening 45-1 choices to be the last team standing, Purdue now offers up the fourth lowest rate of return at 15-1 by bolting out to a 15-1 SU record through its first 16 games. It however still hasn’t made a believer of CBB bettors in managing a 6-9-1 record against the closing college basketball betting lines. The team is led into battle by the current frontrunner to win the Wooden Award in Zach Edey who’s looked much improved in his junior campaign averaging 21.9 points and 13.2 rebounds per game. Running the second most efficient offense in the country per KenPom, Purdue could become even scarier if the long range shots start dropping (No. 275). Negative regression is bound to hit in the near future, so a juicier return on investment will be made available if interested.

TCU Horned Frogs

Provided the Big 12 doesn’t cannibalize itself once March Madness arrives, the Horned Frogs look to be a team you’ll want futures of to make some noise in the seventh season of the Jamie Dixon regime. The guard tandem of Mike Miles Jr. (19.5 PPG) and David Baugh (5.5 APG) is one of the best in the country. The Horned Frogs also possess a pair of solid bigs in Emanuel Miller (14.1 PPG) and Eddie Lampkin Jr. (7.3 RPG). This team’s motor never stops! Futures bettors will get a juicier price on this squad shortly after it just dropped back-to-back heartbreakers to Iowa State and Texas. TCU will make a run in the Madness, and you’re going to want a piece of it in some way, shape, or form when it does!

Xavier Musketeers

The only thing holding the X-Men from making a run come March is its limited bench. I’m not sure there’s a better team in the nation than Sean Miller’s Musketeers one through five. Seriously, this team can do it all! Having won 14 of its first 17 games and going unblemished through its first six Big East Tussles, Xavier has gotten in the good graces of its supporters by covering at a 10-6-1 clip. Injuries saw it drop games against Gonzaga, Duke, and Indiana early on, but the team has been nothing if not a steamroller since in rattling off 10 straight victories (7-3 ATS). Souley Boum and co. have already seen their odds to win it all get cut from 85-1 to 50-1. If this veteran laden team continues to play like it has, their rate of return will get slashed even more!

Kentucky Wildcats

John Calipari’s Wildcats have been the biggest disappointments to this point of the season. You’ll notice Kentucky initially hit the board with the third shortest odds to cut the nets down along with the reigning champion Jayhawks. Having gone 10-6 SU and managing just one win through four SEC matchups, Oscar Tshiebwe and co. have demolished their wagering supporter’s bankrolls by going a grotesque 4-11-1 against the spread. The Pomeroy Ratings currently have the Wildcats ranked No. 43 overall which still feels a bit high considering it just lost outright to South Carolina as whopping 20-point home favorites! It won’t get any easier in the short term either with games scheduled against @Tennessee, Georgia, Texas A&M, and @Vanderbilt leading up to that January 28 clash with Kansas in Rupp Arena. It’s now or never for the Cats to save their season!

St. Mary’s Gaels

Gonzaga has long been the alpha of the West Coast Conference. That however isn’t the case in 2022-23. I’ve already slammed Randy Bennett’s Gaels to win the regular season title at 5-1 when the offering first hit the board. Their odds to do so have been cut in half since! I’ll bet them to win the WCC tournament come early March as well. Houston and Tennessee – two teams currently sitting atop the futures odds – rank out as the two best defenses in the country per the most up to date Pomeroy Ratings. Rutgers clocks in at No. 3 with the Gaels chiming in right behind them.

And it’s not like Aidan Mahaney and his mates have taken on a joke schedule either. They’ve already run up against Houston and lost 53-48 in a defensive grinder but covered as 9.5-point dogs. It also upended No. 21 San Diego State. This is one of those teams that slows games to a crawl, is efficient at both ends of the court, doesn’t turn the ball over, and hits the glass. In other words, it’s a team nobody will want to run up against once the Field of 68 is locked in.

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