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Kentucky among best tourney title bets

Parity was the buzzword during the college basketball regular season and it hasn't gone away during the postseason.

It was a rotating carousel for the No. 1 spot in the AP poll all year long, as No. 1 seeds went down time and again in conference tournaments. And the four No. 1 seeds in the NCAA tournament this year have combined to lose a record 23 games.

So, this year's tourney is wide-open and worth a shot at some long shots in the future books, especially with no prohibitive odds-on favorite as we had with Kentucky last year (though the Wildcats didn't eventually complete their perfect season). An argument can be made for at least 20 teams being capable of winning the national title, and I tend to think that's a conservative number.

I'm going to focus on three value bets from the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook futures board, but first a few caveats: Oddsmakers tend to shade each team's odds lower than their true odds, so usually the best way to bet a team to run the table is to bet each of its games on the money line, parlaying the winnings from game to game. If you decide to still go ahead and bet the fixed-odds futures, odds will vary from book to book, so it pays to shop around for the best price.

With that being said, here are my three best value bets using the Westgate's adjusted odds after the brackets were announced late Sunday afternoon.