The 2021-21 men’s college basketball season is over, which means it’s time to place your bets on the 2022-23 season.
Although Mike Krzyzewski has retired from coaching, Duke is the betting favorite to win the 2023 National Championship on two of the four websites we cite, with Arkansas and Kansas being the favorites in the other two.
We are more interested in the odds for Pac-12 schools, and UCLA has the shortest odds in the conference at three of the four venues, while Arizona is the favorite at fourth.
Meanwhile, Cal has the longest odds in Pac-12 on either side. One of the four venues did not even have the Golden Bears on the board, the only Pac-12 team to receive the OTB designation at any of the four betting venues. Or you can look at it this way: If you bet $ 100 on Cal winning the national championship with Caesars Sportsbook, you’d take $ 75,000 home if the Bears make it. Remember that St. Peter’s reached Elite Eight this year, so nothing is impossible.
Of course, these odds are likely to change significantly after all the players who have the opportunity to become pro have made their decisions. For example, Arizona’s odds will be longer if Christian Koloko, Dalen Terry and Bennedict Mathurin all become pros, and UCLA’s odds will be longer if Johnny Juzang, Jaime Jaquez and Peyton Watson join the 2022 NBA draft. But this is what it looks like now. (Of those six players, only Mathurin is sure to be a first-round pick in 2022, and is the only one almost certain to become a professional.)
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But this is what it looks like now.
The four pages we use are BetOnline.ag, BetMGM, Casears Sportsbook and DraftKings Sportsbook. We note the odds for the top five overall favorites (plus draws) from each side, and then post the odds for each Pac-12 school to win the national title in 2023. You can see that there are significant differences in the teams’ odds on the four places:
Betonline.ag
Total odds
Arkansas – 10-to-1
Duke – 11-to-1
Gonzaga – 11-to-1
Kentucky – 11-to-1
Houston – 14-to-1
Kansas 14-to-1
North Carolina – 14-to-1
Pac-12 Odds
UCLA – 16-to-1
Arizona 18-to-1
Oregon – 50-to-1
USC – 50-to-1
Colorado – 150-to-1
Arizona State – 200-to-1
Washington State – 300-to-1
Oregon State – 500-to-1
Stanford – 500-to-1
Utah – 500-to-1
Washington – 500-to-1
Cal – 500-to-1
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BetMGM
Total odds
Duke – +800 (8-to-1)
Kentucky – +1000 (10-to-1)
Arkansas – +1000 (10-to-1)
Kansas – +1200 (12-to-1)
Gonzaga – +1200 (12-to-1)
Pac-12 Odds
UCLA – +1400 (14-to-1)
Arizona – +2000 (20-to-1)
Oregon – +2500 (25-to-1)
USC – +3000 (30-to-1)
Washington State – +8000 (80-to-1)
Arizona State – +10000 (100-to-1)
Utah – +12500 (125-to-1)
Stanford – +12500 (125-to-1)
Colorado – +15000 (150-to-1)
Washington – +15000 (150-to-1)
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Oregon State – +20000 (200-to-1)
Cal – Off the board
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Caesars Sportsbook
Total odds
Kansas – +1000 (10-to-1)
Kentucky – +1200 (12-to-1)
Gonzaga – +1200 (12-to-1)
Duke – +1500 (15-to-1)
Arizona – +1500 (15-to-1)
Pac-12 Odds
Arizona – +1500 (15-to-1)
UCLA – +2000 (20-to-1)
USC – +6000 (60-to-1)
Oregon – +10000 (100-to-1)
Arizona State – +15000 (150-to-1)
Colorado – +20,000 (200-to-1)
Utah – +25000 (250-to-1)
Stanford – +25000 (250-to-1)
Washington State – +30000 (300-to-1)
Washington – +50000 (500-to-1)
Oregon State – +50000 (500-to-1)
Cal – +750000 (750-to-1)
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DraftKings
Total odds
Duke – +900 (9-to-1)
North Carolina – +1100 (11-to-1)
Kansas – +1200 (12-to-1)
Kentucky – +1200 (12-to-1)
Gonzaga – +1400 (14-to-1)
Arkansas – +1400 (14-to-1)
Pac-12 odds
UCLA – +1600 (16-to-1)
Arizona – +1800 (18-to-1)
Oregon – +5000 (50-to-1)
USC – +5500 (55-to-1)
Colorado – +16000 (160-to-1)
Arizona State – +20000 (200-to-1)
Washington State – +30000 (300-to-1)
Washington – +40000 (400-to-1)
Utah – +50000 (500-to-1)
Stanford – +50000 (500-to-1)
Oregon State – +60000 (600-to-1)
Cal – +60000 (600-to-1)
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