College Basketball: Who's Likely to Win the Championship?
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00:00 Winning a national championship certainly hard to do. We got a long way to play, but even before heading into the new year, we take a look at the fans of sportsbook and some of the odds listed under 15 to one, which includes Houston Marquette, Kansas, Connecticut, Arizona and Purdue. If we're looking at those odds with Purdue being the favorite of plus 850 here. Is there anybody that you like and let you say that top six to top 10 that you're saying? You know what? They're playing really good basketball right now. I expect this to continue and big things could happen here with the national championship.
00:28 Connecticut, and I've said for a long time that rankings are one of the most overrated things that we look at in college basketball because you have a sport that is decided by a 68 team tournament.
00:40 Nobody was really concerned a year ago or gave too much thought where Miami, San Diego State, Florida Atlantic were ranked all three of those teams wound up in the final four.
00:51 Dan Hurley has Yukon in a situation right now where it is one jump shot away, which was missed against Kansas from being undefeated entering Big East play Wednesday night against Seton Hall after losing a domicile.
01:05 No go Jordan Hawkins, Joey Calcutta, Tara and Andre Jackson from last season's team that won the national championship.
01:14 Yukon is winning games by an average of 25.9 points per game.
01:20 The Huskies aren't just dominating people.
01:23 They are dominating people with regularity.
01:26 And I'll say this.
01:27 What Dan Hurley is doing right now at Yukon is on a Jim Calhoun level.
01:33 Yukon has never went to back to back final fours in its storied history.
01:39 That could change this year.
01:40 We can debate about rankings.
01:42 We can talk about different storylines.
01:45 But here's one thing. Okay, as we approach Christmas and Big East play that I don't think can be debated.
01:51 The highest ceiling in college basketball resides in Storrs, Connecticut.