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Apr. 3, 2012 7:58 am
I don't know. If I knew things like that, I'd be doing this blog from Monte Carlo. And I'd be using lots of blue language, because I'd be so rich no one would dare tell me to clean it up.
Just kidding. I don't work blue. But that Monte Carlo thing, that would work.
Even though no one knows who will even be starting (or coaching) for Kentucky next season, my man RJ Bell of Pregame.com says the Wildcats are 6-1 to repeat as NCAA champions, the lowest odds of any team right now.
Next: Baylor at 8-1. Then ...
Louisville: 9 to 1
Indiana: 10 to 1
Ohio State: 10 to 1
North Carolina: 10 to 1
Syracuse: 11 to 1
Michigan: 12 to 1
Wisconsin: 14 to 1
NC St: 15 to 1
Duke: 15 to 1
San Diego St: 18 to 1
Kansas: 18 to 1
Michigan St: 20 to 1
Memphis: 20 to 1
Kansas St: 25 to 1
Florida St: 30 to 1
Maryland: 30 to 1
Creighton: 30 to 1
Texas: 30 to 1
Florida: 35 to 1
Notre Dame: 35 to 1
St. Mary's: 35 to 1
Marquette: 38 to 1
Gonzaga: 40 to 1
New Mexico: 40 to 1
Georgetown: 43 to 1
Clemson: 45 to 1
UCLA: 45 to 1
UNLV: 45 to 1
VCU: 45 to 1
I think Iowa and Iowa State have just as good a chance of cutting the nets in Atlanta in a year than St. Mary's or Kansas State or, dare I say it, New Mexico.
Indiana and Ohio State at 10-1 and Michigan at 12-1 have to assume key underclassmen are returning, which is a big assumption at this point. No Wisconsin at 14-1? No. Definitely not.
But somebody's got to win it and we have no idea who it will be. Which makes it nothing like football, which will have an LSU-USC national-title game in January if many are to be believed.
Baylor's Quincy Miller (AP photo)