With the 2023-24 college basketball season ending Monday, various sports betting companies are already looking ahead to next year.
With the 2023-24 college basketball season ending Monday, various sports betting companies are already looking ahead to next year. BetOnline Sportsbook, in particular, recently released its gambling odds for the 2025 NCAA Tournament winner.
Texas A&M is tied with Missouri, Mississippi State and Memphis for the 36th-best national title odds, coming in at +9000 (bet $100, win $9,000). For comparison, DraftKings Sportsbook last October gave the Aggies +5500 odds to win the 2023-24 national championship. Those odds brought them to a tie with Indiana and West Virginia for the 29th-best nationally.
When including soon-to-be Southeastern Conference member Texas, the SEC has seven teams with better 2025 national championship odds than A&M: T-3. Kentucky (+1400), T-6. Alabama (+1800), T-10. Auburn (+2000), 13. Arkansas (+2500), T-16. Texas (+4000), T-17. Tennessee (+5000) and T-17. Florida (+5000).
The Aggies are coming off a 21-15 season and posted a 9-9 mark in SEC action. They received a nine seed in the NCAA Tournament and advanced to the second round before falling to one-seed Houston, 100-95, in overtime last month.
Only one major contributor from that A&M team, shooting guard Tyrece Radford, saw his eligibility expire following the season. Two role players who saw minimal action, guard Eli Lawrence and big man Wildens Leveque, were the other contributors who exhausted their eligibility.
Whether the Aggies will retain their top players from last season remains to be seen, but theiroffseason has been encouraging so far. No A&M player has declared for the 2024 NBA Draft or entered the NCAA Transfer Portal since it opened on March 18 (closes on May 1). The Aggies also remain active in pursuing players from the portal but have yet to land a verbal commitment from a transfer.
Four A&M players – guard Hayden Hefner and power forwards Henry Coleman III, Andersson Garcia and Julius Marble (away from the team due to a "university process") – have a final COVID year available. In a post via X on March 30, Garcia announced that he will return to the Aggies. Though, he has since deleted that post.
