The rest are here.Most of these are terrible. I'm pretty sure Alabama at 10:1 is a typo. They must mean +10000. I wouldn't take anyone at +650 at this point, especially a team that's going to lose their two best players. With Florida and Ohio St. you're paying for the name; there's no way those two should be so high on this list based on merit.
Teams like Texas and Connecticut are intriguing at 15:1, but there are just too many question marks. If Augustin/Thabeet go to the NBA, those become terrible odds. That's the problem with looking at these so early- not only do we not know who is coming back, it's also hard to be sure of how good the incoming freshmen are. Is Samardo Samuels going to be Kyle Singler (#5 on last year's Rivals 150) or Kevin Love (#6)? I have no idea.
Texas A&M loses Kirk and Jones, but if Jordan comes back, they'll have him, Carter, Davis, Sloan and Roland. 50:1 wouldn't be bad in that scenario. I'm not sure how Kansas St. is at 30:1- they're losing Beasley, Young, Stewart, and possibly Walker. They have no Top 150 freshmen coming in. How are they even going to make the tournament?
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I'm confident that these bets could onlyl be educationally wagered on by people who read Rivals 24/7. With the impact of freshmen in the tournament the last few years, you have to already know who will be that Greg Oden or Derrick Rose, and that's simply too hard to do right now. Betting on these just don't make any sense at all AT LEAST until every has decided on the NBA Draft and the new freshmen arrive on campus.
I'm confident that most of these odds are designed to sucker people into betting on bad future odds early.
Well that is certainly an accurate assessment, bstone. They add up to 210%, and this only includes 58 teams.
Agree w/ Black n Gold. I'm looking forward to seeing Baylor's odds after the dust settles. They should have everyone back, while the rest of the Big12 should have some big losses. Obviously their D was horrible, so who knows if I'd pull the trigger anyway.
It seems weird to read that Singler was #5 and Love #6 on last year's Rivals 150. I don't follow recruiting at ALL, yet before the season started I still was very familiar with Love, Mayo, and Beasley. I couldn't have even told you what team Singler would be on.
Singler did get some preseason hype. You're right though, not nearly as much as Love. For good reason.
You can pretty much cross of louisville, clark and caracter both declared
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