Kentucky is the 5/1 favorite to win 2010 Championship

If you've followed the site in the past month, you know I've followed the odds for the 2010 NCAA Championship. BBB's first post in this area found the Cats as the co-third choice at 15/1, behind only Kansas (7/1) and Louisville (8/1).

I wanted to keep a running tally of how things went down only because everyone knew the kind of news we would be hearing in the late spring signing period. Not to mention whether or not Pat and Jodie would be back in the fall. BBB's second post checked the odds after Pat announced he would be coming back. The sportsbook had given us some love cutting us to 10/1, tied with Louisville, and behind only Kansas at 6/1.

To keep things going, we check again to find out after news of John Wall's decision, SuperBook.com has officially made Kentucky the clear cut favorite to win the 2010 NCAA Basketball Championship at 5/1. Kansas held steady at 6/1, being the second choice to cut down the nets next April.

This means two things:

• We are now paper champions of not only recruiting, but the Las Vegas strip.
• Kentucky is the lone talk of the college basketball world since one John Calipari has taken the reigns.

Any money coming in for this bet is going straight to Kentucky. No other team's odds have changed remotely close to that of Kentucky. While the John Wall and Pat news has done wonders for these imaginary numbers, Vegas is trying to tell us they've had enough of it. By draining the odds of the Cats, they're telling us, "We're trying everything we can to get people to stop betting on UK. We're tired of you backing Kentucky." It's unheard of for a team to have not even made the NCAA Tournament the previous year to pull a complete 180 and become the favorite two months after the end of the season.

The only thing left to see is whether or not they take us off the board if Jodie decides to come back. If there is one thing Vegas knows about sports, it's the teams they know will be there at the end. And for 2010 college basketball, Kentucky is at the top of the list for now.

Updated odds:

Kentucky (5/1)
Kansas (6/1)
Louisville (12/1)
Duke (15/1)
Michigan State (15/1)
North Carolina (25/1)
Wake Forest (25/1)

Who else is ready for this season to start?