The Ohio State basketball season came to an abrupt end with a thud heard around the college basketball universe. The Buckeyes became just the ninth No. 2 seed in the history of the NCAA Tournament to lose to a No. 15 seed. This, after it looked like the Buckeyes were finishing with a strong kick by making a run to the Big Ten championship game.
And, now that the season has finished with Baylor cutting down the nets, we’re starting to get some future odds for teams expected to be in contention next season. OSU has a significant amount of talent coming back as long as both Duane Washington and E.J. Liddell put off dreams of grandeur in the NBA and come back to Columbus for another season. The Buckeyes should be able to build on what occurred this year and are getting a lot of attention in all the way-too-early predictions for the 2021-2022 season.
Count the popular BetMGM Sportsbook in that camp as well. It has released future odds for next year’s national champion and Ohio State is right on the mix, with a tie for the sixth-best odds to take home the title at +1600.
The five teams ahead of the Buckeyes are Gonzaga (+600), Michigan (+800), Baylor (+1200), Duke (+1200), and Florida State (+1200). Rounding out the top ten includes a couple of teams tied with OSU with the same odds — UCLA (+1600) and Villanova (+1600), followed by Alabama (+2000) and Illinois (+2000).
Odds courtesy of BetMGM Sportsbook.
We must note that there are still a lot of unknowns with all the players opting to go through the NBA draft process and what happens from there, so this can (and will) most likely change as we sort all of that out and rosters become more of a definitive thing.
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