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#1 Seed in the NCAA Tournament?

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Which of these teams get a #1 seed in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, which will be announced on Sunday?

In the unlikely event that more than one of them get a #1 seed, there will be multiple payouts.

For those wondering, these odds are mine.
 
Now that it's closed, I'll explain how I calculated these odds, since some may find it worthy of discussion.

First, I obviously assmued that Kansas, Syracuse, and Ky were locks for #1 seeds, regardless of any bad loss in their conference tournaments.

I then gave odds to each of the other 6 contenders in winning their own conference tournament as follows:

30% for Duke and tOSU (same as the odds in those vBet threads)
17% for West Va, Purdue, Kansas St and Nova

Then I made a pecking order.

If Duke wins their tournament, they're a #1, regardless of other results
If Duke loses and West Va wins, WV gets a #1
If Duke and West Va lose and tOSU wins, tOSU gets the #1
If Duke and West Va lose and Purdue wins, Purdue gets the #1 (there'd be debate due to Hummel's injury)
If the 4 already mentioned all lose and K St wins, K State gets a #1
If the 5 already mentioned all lose and Nova wins, Nova gets a #1
If the 6 already mentioned all lose, it falls to Duke

Based on those assumptions, I crunched the numbers to create the odds for this vBet.

Then I gave some long odds for any other possibility (New Mexico, Maryland, etc.).
 
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