College Basketball Odds To Win the 2025 National Championship

Before you know it, another season of college basketball will be here again. Fortunately, the college basketball odds table never went anywhere.

BetMGM opened a fresh market for the 2025 college basketball national championship just minutes after UConn cut down the nets in April.

So for ambitious handicappers who like to establish early positions, here’s a look at next year’s NCAAB odds for the 2024 national championship, as well as a few notes and numbers to consider before betting.

Odds to Win NCAA Tournament 2025

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Based on the current futures market, the UConn Huskies both have an implied 10% chance to win the national championship. 

Kansas and Duke (+1000, 9.1%) are the next most likely to win March Madness.

College Basketball National Championship Odds: Early Contenders to Know for 2025

After UConn won the 2023 national championship last April, the Huskies were priced as the team to beat in the early 2024 championship market.

Pretty soon, though, it was clear that the market actually preferred Kansas. The Jayhawks spent most of the 2023 offseason as the early national championship odds favorite, with legal betting in Kansas backing up a national market that was happy to bet a traditional blueblood that scored a commitment from a top transfer (Hunter Dickinson) in the portal. 

As it turns out, the market’s move away from UConn was a bad move. Head coach Dan Hurley lost Jordan Hawkins and Andre Jackson Jr. to the NBA Draft and still had the best team in college basketball in 2023-24. 

At the beginning of this offseason, bettors are seeing a similar set of events play out. Donovan Clingan, Stephon Castle, and Tristen Newton are all potential first-round picks in the 2024 NBA Draft, and so the opening 2024-25 market preferred Kansas (+1100) and Duke (+1100) over UConn (+1200).

That could prove to be a foolish mistake next spring after Hurley reloads again. Indeed, UConn is already down to +900.

But on the merits, Duke and Kansas do make some sense. Dickinson is returning to Kansas, and a healthy run for the Jayhawks (who always recruit well) could put them right back in the thick of March Madness. 

Duke is probably the top option. The Blue Devils lost Kyle Filipowski and Jared McCain to the NBA Draft, but No. 1 recruit Cooper Flagg is set to take the college basketball world by storm in Durham next season. His freshman hype compares favorably to former Blue Devil Zion Williamson. 

As for the other top teams in the table, many of them have gone to the Final Four (or further) in recent cycles. That includes North Carolina (+1800), Baylor (+2000), Alabama (+1200), Gonzaga (+1800), Purdue (+4000), and Auburn (+3000).