{"id":52670,"date":"2025-08-01T14:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T14:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/52670\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T14:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T14:11:09","slug":"wisconsin-basketball-badgers-odds-for-2026-ncaa-title-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/52670\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Basketball: Badgers odds for 2026 NCAA title revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"YmzNVy\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buckys5thquarter.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wisconsin Badgers<\/a> had a strong 2024-25 season, earning a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament, where they bowed out to No. 6 seed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanquishthefoe.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BYU<\/a> in the Round of 32.<\/p>\n<p id=\"1OpHmb\">Nonetheless, it was one of the program\u2019s better years in recent history, but Wisconsin had a senior-laden team, which meant changes were coming this offseason.<\/p>\n<p id=\"MaGwIT\">Well, the Badgers were able to reload well in the transfer portal, landing five rotational pieces: San Diego State guard Nick Boyd, Virginia wing Andrew Rohde, Portland forward Austin Rapp, Tulsa guard Braeden Carrington, and Temple forward Elijah Gray.<\/p>\n<p id=\"GZn0eo\">That, paired with four incoming freshmen, gives Wisconsin a brand-new look in 2026, as they look to push further in the NCAA Tournament this season?<\/p>\n<p id=\"h5rJAm\">What are their current odds in the way-too-early title picture?<\/p>\n<p id=\"5ROcX1\">FanDuel Sportsbook released its latest odds, with Purdue being the favorite at +900 odds. That\u2019s an increase from its +1400 odds back in April, which was third behind Houston and Duke.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Qym9EG\">Wisconsin is tied for 25th with Baylor, Indiana, Iowa, and N.C. State at +6000 odds, which is where they also were back in April.<\/p>\n<p id=\"LkNBWh\">That ranks sixth in the Big Ten behind Purdue (+900 odds), Michigan (+1900 odds), Illinois (+3500 odds), UCLA (+3500 odds), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theonlycolors.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michigan State<\/a> (+4000 odds).<\/p>\n<p id=\"8UBxNy\">When considering long-shot teams with +6000 odds or above, CBS Sports had another Big Ten team as the team to watch: Oregon. They stand at +8000 odds, but return lead guard Jackson Shelstad and center Nate Bittle.<\/p>\n<p id=\"e3rnOd\">The Badgers overwhelmingly exceeded expectations last year, when they were projected as the 12th-best team in the Big Ten. Can they do the same this season?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wisconsin Badgers had a strong 2024-25 season, earning a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament, where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[9526,402,9530,2101,424,398,400,401,12319,9532,9529,419,99,9531,8315,1745,9533],"class_list":["post-52670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-badgers","tag-basketball","tag-bucky","tag-for","tag-front-page","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-odds","tag-quarter","tag-revealed","tag-s","tag-sports","tag-th","tag-title","tag-wisconsin","tag-wisconsin-badgers-mens-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}