{"id":16673,"date":"2025-04-06T10:23:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T14:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/?p=16673"},"modified":"2025-10-17T12:59:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:59:50","slug":"march-madness-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/march-madness-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida vs. Houston March Madness national championship odds: Gators are slight favourites to win 2025 NCAA title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a pair of epic Final Four matchups on Saturday, the stage is set for Monday&#8217;s March Madness national championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The latest:<\/strong> The No. 1 Florida Gators face the No. 1 Houston Cougars in what practically equates to a pick&#8217;em. Houston is a slight underdog despite its stunning comeback win over tourney favourite Duke in the semifinal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/online.northstarbets.ca\/page?key=ej0xMzUyNDU3MiZsPTEzNTc4NzIyJnA9MjM3NzA%3D\">March Madness odds<\/a> for the 2025 national championship on April 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading insights\" id=\"march-madness-odds\">March Madness odds<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"insights\"><em>Check out the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/sports-hub\/basketball\/ncaab\">odds to win March Madness<\/a>.<\/em> <em>Click linked odds to add selection to your betslip<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"cacheembed:112172\">Embed: #112172<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"best-odds-to-win-march-madness\">Best odds to win March Madness<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/sports-hub\/basketball\/ncaab\"><strong>Full March Madness Markets<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/march\"><strong>PLAY NOW: Un-Bustable Bracket Challenge<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The favourites: <a href=\"https:\/\/online.northstarbets.ca\/page?key=ej0xMzUyNDU3MiZsPTEzNTc4NzIyJnA9MjM3NzA%3D\">Florida Gators (-114)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The all-chalk Final Four delivered, with a pair of 1-vs.-1 matchups that went right down to the wire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First up was Florida over Auburn in a battle between the two best teams from NCAA Division I&#8217;s best conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Gators trailed by as many as nine early in the second half. Then Walter Clayton Jr. took over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clayton finished with 34 points on 11-of-18 shooting (5-for-8 from 3-point range). His shooting numbers since the start of the SEC tournament are off the charts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>23.1 PPG<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>49.1 FG%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>49.2 3PT%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>90.4 FT%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone in San Antonio&#8217;s Alamodome on Monday will know that he&#8217;s the man to stop. But his ability to create off-balance shots \u2014 and his confidence to shoot from wherever, whenever \u2014 means he&#8217;s a threat at all times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Florida is 15-4 in Quad 1 matchups, according to BartTorvik.com, with a 28-1 record in home or neutral games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">March Madness odds: The underdogs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/online.northstarbets.ca\/page?key=ej0xMzUyNDU3MiZsPTEzNTc4NzIyJnA9MjM3NzA%3D\">Houston Cougars (-106)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s probably not fair to call Houston an underdog given how tight the odds are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, both KenPom.com and BartTorvik.com project the Cougars to win outright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That has a lot to do with Houston&#8217;s stifling defence, which ranks No. 1 in the country in scoring (58.5 PPG) and efficiency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nobody in the Cougars&#8217; rotation is taller than 6-foot-8, while the Gators have three rotational bigs standing 6-foot-9 and above. But the scrappiness of Houston makes up for its vertical shortcomings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And coming off a shocker over Duke, this is a tough squad to bet against.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How quickly things can change \ud83e\udd2f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MarchMadness?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MarchMadness<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5NcPPIqrSI\">pic.twitter.com\/5NcPPIqrSI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessMBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarchMadnessMBB\/status\/1908744580515701012?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Houston will want a rock fight, but if it needs buckets, LJ Cryer is the guy to watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cryer played every minute against Duke, canning 6-of-9 threes in a 26-point performance. He paced the Big 12 this year with a 42.7 3PT%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Betting notes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Florida is 28-11-0 ATS, per Team Rankings, covering by an average of 5.1 points per game. Also, overs are 10-1 for the Gators since the beginning of March.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Houston enters on an 18-game win streak. Unders are 9-3-1 in Cougars games since Feb. 22.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Neither team has any reported injuries entering the national championship game as of Sunday morning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"thestar\">Looking to get started? <a href=\"https:\/\/online.northstarbets.ca\/page?key=ej0xMzUyNzQxMyZsPTEzNTI3NDExJnA9MjMyNDM%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a pair of epic Final Four matchups on Saturday, the stage is set for Monday&#8217;s March Madness national championship. The latest: The No. 1 Florida Gators face the No. 1 Houston Cougars in what practically equates to a pick&#8217;em. Houston is a slight underdog despite its stunning comeback win over tourney favourite Duke in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":338491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sidebar_plugin_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[75,76],"tags":[149,21,226,22],"class_list":["post-16673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-ncaab","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball-betting","tag-ncaab","tag-ncaab-betting"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>March Madness odds and 2025 betting favourites | NorthStar Bets<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out the March Madness odds for the 2024-25 NCAA basketball season. 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