What Seed Is Michigan In The NCAA Tournament? Odds of Michigan Basketball’s Seed For 2025 NCAA Tournament

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The first season of head coach Dusty May’s run in Ann Arbor has gotten off to a resounding start for Michigan Wolverines basketball betting and the team’s fans. UM is 15-5 overall and 7-2 in Big Ten play, while ranking 20th in the latest batch of KenPom.com rankings and in the NCAA’s NET ratings.

With that in mind, BetMichigan.com broke down the odds on where Michigan will be seeded in the 2025 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, with seeding that ranges from No. 1 to missing out on the Big Dance altogether.

What Seed Will Michigan Be In NCAA Tournament?

Seed

Percentage Chance

Odds

1 Seed

+2750

3.5%

2 Seed

+565

15.0%

3 Seed

+415

19.4%

4 Seed

+450

18.2%

5 Seed

+565

15.0%

6 Seed

+800

11.1%

7 Seed

+1200

7.7%

8 Seed

+2000

4.8%

9 Seed

+3500

2.8%

10 Seed

+6500

1.5%

11 Seed

+14000

0.7%

12 Seed

+50000

0.2%

Miss Tournament

+50000

0.2%

These odds are provided by BetMichigan.com, where real money Michigan sportsbook promo codes are available any time.

The Wolverines seek to return to the promised land of March Madness after missing out in each of Juwan Howard’s last two seasons as coach with the program. Making the 68-team field looks eminently doable for UM given how well the program’s started the year.

Now, it’s onto bigger and better things in Ann Arbor, with DraftKings Michigan Sportsbook giving UM the third-best odds of winning the Big Ten title (at +600) and +5000 odds of winning the national championship in 2025.

Will Michigan Make NCAA Tournament?

Our top pick for Michigan when it comes to seeding is +415 odds (or a 19.4% implied probability) as a third seed in the Big Dance, which would represent a huge glow-up for a program that went 8-24 last season under Howard.

Our second-most likely scenario for the Wolverines is to be a No. 4 seed – we list that as an 18.2% probability, which would translate to +450 odds if it were offered as a prop with Michigan sports betting outlets. We have +565 odds on UM either surging to a No. 2 seed or dropping to a No. 5 seed. Any other scenario would either require an incredible run over the next six weeks (the No. 1 seed is at +2750 odds) or a bad slump (starting with +800 odds on a No. 6 seed and odds getting longer after that).

The Bracketmatrix.com website aggregates dozens of bracket projections and averages out the seedlings from each one. There, Michigan rates as a No. 5 seed, with projections as high as No. 4 and as low as No. 7 across 86 selectors making projections.

We rate Michigan’s chances of missing the tournament entirely at +50000, meaning that we have them pegged as a 99.8% probability to make the field for March Madness, the biggest wagering events of the year for college basketball betting in Michigan.

For now, May and company will look to pick up an eighth conference win when they head to Piscataway to play Rutgers at 3:30 p.m. Eastern on Saturday. After that, UM hosts 16th ranked Oregon in a resume-building opportunity on Feb. 5.

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Author

Christopher Boan

Christopher Boan is a staff writer for BetMichigan.com. He has covered sports and sports betting for more than seven years and has worked for publications such as ArizonaSports.com, the Tucson Weekly and the Green Valley News.

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