{"id":590620,"date":"2026-04-07T05:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590620\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T05:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:42:08","slug":"2027-mens-college-basketball-title-odds-duke-favored-ahead-of-newly-crowned-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590620\/","title":{"rendered":"2027 men\u2019s college basketball title odds: Duke favored ahead of newly crowned Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posting the favorites for the following season\u2019s champion as soon as the current season ends is a near-impossible task. So much changes during an offseason. That is especially true in college sports and even more so in recent years with the explosion of the transfer portal.<\/p>\n

With the transfer portal not opening until April 7, which is later than last year, most teams are still roughly just ideas and can drastically change in the next month. Throw in the coaching carousel and declarations for the NBA Draft, and many rosters will undergo significant change between now and the start of next season.<\/p>\n

That said, the sportsbooks posted odds for next year\u2019s men\u2019s college basketball national champion, and the favorites are the same teams that were at the top of this year\u2019s bracket. Duke leads the way as the favorite on both FanDuel and DraftKings, followed by newly crowned champion Michigan and the other No. 1 seeds, Arizona and Florida.<\/p>\n

At the same time that Duke coach Jon Scheyer is seeing a pattern of his teams blowing leads<\/a> in the NCAA Tournament, his teams continue to enter every season with high expectations. Scheyer\u2019s team is expected to lose national player of the year Cameron Boozer and potentially sophomore guard Isaiah Evans to the NBA, but could return the bulk of the roster while adding two McDonald\u2019s All-Americans in 6-foot-11 Cameron Williams and guard Deron Rippey Jr. Williams is regarded as a top-five recruit in the 2026 class.<\/p>\n

Is that enough to be the favorite to win next year\u2019s national title? Well, that goes back to the point of these teams still largely being ideas.<\/p>\n

Duke is +700 (7-to-1) on FanDuel and +800 (8-to-1) on DraftKings. Michigan is next (+800 on FanDuel and +1200 on DraftKings). Leading scorer Yaxel Lendeborg is a senior, but Michigan\u2019s next five leading scorers have eligibility remaining, and coach Dusty May also has two high school All-Americans coming in.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s equal parts unsurprising and unimaginative that the top four teams in the odds to win next year\u2019s title are also the four teams that were No. 1 seeds in the 2026 NCAA Tournament. Arizona and Florida are in the top four behind Duke and Michigan. The next five teams are the same at both sportsbooks, albeit in a different order: Houston, Michigan State, UConn, Kansas and Arkansas. Michigan State, Kansas and Arkansas have top-five recruiting classes coming in.<\/p>\n

How much confidence is being shown in Mike Malone as North Carolina\u2019s coach<\/a>? A pretty good amount, actually. UNC is 22-to-1 on FanDuel and 25-to-1 on DraftKings, which puts the Tar Heels in the top 15 on the odds board.<\/p>\n

For now, it appears the board is a mix of this year\u2019s success and the incoming recruiting classes. It will be interesting to see how things move after the transfer portal plays out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posting the favorites for the following season\u2019s champion as soon as the current season ends is a near-impossible…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[1414,45580,64,63,726,1403,1407,1226,1404,1412,1418,712,713,1406,85,23371],"class_list":{"0":"post-590620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-arizona-wildcats","9":"tag-arkansas-razorbacks","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-basketball","13":"tag-connecticut-huskies","14":"tag-duke-blue-devils","15":"tag-florida-gators","16":"tag-houston-cougars","17":"tag-kansas-jayhawks","18":"tag-mens-college-basketball","19":"tag-michigan-state-spartans","20":"tag-michigan-wolverines","21":"tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-sports-betting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}