One Vegas Bookie Is Rooting Heavily for Wisconsin to Beat Kentucky

The Westgate SuperBook in Las Vegas has made the Kentucky Wildcats a -120 favorite to win it all. But that's not what has the sportsbook wringing its hands.

Back at the season's beginning, the sportsbook posted the odds of Kentucky going undefeated at 50-1.

Anyone who bets now when the odds are 1-1.2 will actually lose a little money if the 'Cats cut down the nets.

But those who took the action last summer stand to clean up if that happens.

Kentucky has opened as a 6.5 point favorite against Wisconsin. By the way, the Badgers are no slouches in Vegas either. Like Duke, their odds to win the championship are 7-2. Not bad.

If you want to wade through an ESPN blog on the subject--which actually comes off sounding like a college level math course on the subject--I guess you can click here.

But here's my two cents.

I don't gamble. I have in the past. It hasn't worked out. I'm not good at it. And that's fine.

And when I say "not good at it" I mean Bingo, scratch-offs, you name it. Even flipping a coin I get wrong.

But I did find it interesting that folks who made, essentially, the exact same bet will find themselves at wildly different ends of the good fortune scale if it all pans out...just because they bet several months apart.