The odds of winning the NCAA tournament are always long, but Vegas likes the Cougars more than most.
Brigham Young Cougars forward Noah Waterman , Mark Pope, and Brigham Young Cougars forward Fousseyni Traore celebrate the win as BYU hosts Baylor, NCAA basketball in Provo on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024.There are a thousand different ways to fill out your NCAA Tournament brackets, and the thousandth probably has as good a chance of doing it right as the first. That’s the beauty of it.
It’s just the way this thing works. Nobody knows nothing about nothing, not with any exactness. But, again, there is beauty all around when everyone’s guessing at home.— and complained about — after the selections were revealed on Sunday that BYU, according to the selection committee’s own rankings, should have been a No. 5 seed possibly playing in, not as it turned out a No. 6 playing in Omaha, the opening odds for which teams have the best chance of winning the tournament were released.
That list had BYU ranked as having the 15th-best odds of all teams in the tournament — not of winning a first-round game or a second-rounder or making the Sweet 16 or even the Elite Eight or the Final Four. No. It had the Cougars as the team — tied with Duke and Alabama — of having those odds of winning the entire tournament. You read that right.
Well. There are a lot of voices to listen to when it comes to not just picking which school will dance away with the national title, but how to fill out all the slots in your brackets. Everybody who’s ever participated in office pools and pools of other kinds is fully aware that this deal is a total crapshoot. Many well-informed folks really like the Huskies to hoist the trophy at the end, and the odds reflect that, but even that is a reach.
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