2023-2024 Pac-12 Basketball Conference Championship Futures Odds

Jay Sanin on March 11, 2024

The Pac-12 has been dominated by a couple of teams in its recent history. But when looking at the college basketball betting odds for this league in the 2023-24 season, we should see an interesting competition for this league title. Here, we look at the Pac-12 basketball futures markets and determine what the best options are for bettors in this league.

Pac-12 Conference Betting Odds

Pac-12 Basketball Futures Betting Outlook

The favorite to win the Pac-12 tournament this year is Arizona, who has also become a serious contender to win the national championship. The Wildcats have a devastating offense, featuring a great combination of outside shooting and the dominant interior presence of Oumar Ballo. Defense is a legitimate concern for Arizona at this point in the season, but the Wildcats may be able to put up enough points to ease that concern against any conference foe.

Arizona won the Pac-12 regular season title as well, claiming that championship by one game despite a hard charge by a surprising Washington State team. Washington State beat Arizona late in the regular season, but they choked in their final regular season game against Washington, which cost them their shot at the regular season title. Now, the Cougars trail both Arizona and Colorado in the odds to win the Pac-12 tournament.

This year’s Pac-12 is not nearly as good as it has been in seasons past. The league is projected to get three teams into the NCAA Tournament per ESPN’s Joe Lunardi. With teams like USC and UCLA failing to live up to expectations this season, the representation of this conference in March Madness is expected to be nowhere near the level it usually is.

Pac-12 Conference History

The modern Pac-12 Men’s Basketball Tournament has run annually since 2002. All 12 teams are seeded according to their regular season schedules. The top four teams get byes into the quarterfinals while the remaining 8 teams are whittled down to four in the first round.

Of course, the Pac-12 tournament winner advances to the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Even though the modern Pac-12 is relatively new, the conference was established in 1915. Since then, the conference is tied with the ACC for the most NCAA tournament championships with 15. UCLA boasts the most NCAA tournament wins of any team with 11.

It’s been a tough millennium for the Pac-12 as no team from the conference has won an NCAA championship since Arizona edged Kentucky in 1997’s championship game. UCLA is the last Pac-12 team to appear in a championship game. They were soundly defeated by Florida in 2006.