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

The homecoming season for the first year Kentucky Wildcats men’s basketball head coach Mark Pope has stabilized itself a bit of late, with the SEC powerhouse winning three of the team’s last four games against South Carolina (80-57), No. 5 Tennessee (75-64) and unranked Vanderbilt (82-61), offset by Saturday’s poor showing on the road against unranked Texas.

Overall, Kentucky’s record stands at 18-8 with just under a month to go in the regular season, fresh off UK’s 21-point home win over the Commodores on Wednesday night, with a game against No. 2 Alabama (away on Feb. 22) awaiting them this week before heading to Norman to play Oklahoma on Feb. 26.

For now, Kentucky is currently ranked 17th on KenPom.com and pinned as a third seed in ESPN bracket guru Joe Lunardi’s most recent mock field of 68, though much is left to be decided in the Bluegrass State as Pope and company look to get hot at the right time.

BetKentucky.com, as part of our Kentucky sports betting coverage, broke down odds on where the blue-blooded power stands entering the final full month of the NCAA basketball season, anticipating March Madness.

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What Seed Will Kentucky Be In NCAA Tournament?

Seed	Percentage Chance	Odds
1 Seed	+7500	1.3%
2 Seed	+900	10.0%
3 Seed	+425	19.1%
4 Seed	+365	21.5%
5 Seed	+415	19.4%
6 Seed	+585	14.6%
7 Seed	+1100	8.3%
The Field	+1625	5.8%

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Where Will UK Be Seeded?

As of this week, we’re giving Mark Pope’s squad the best odds for the Wildcats to land on the fourth seed line, at +365, though UK has solid odds of either dropping to the fifth seed line (+415) or climbing to the third seed line (+425).

There’s also a +585 chance that UK drops to the sixth seed line and a +900 shot that the Wildcats get back up to the second seed line, to go with +1100 odds that UK plummets down to a seven seed by mid-March.

The longest odds of all for Kentucky right now are to climb all the way to the sport’s summit and secure a top seed in March Madness for the first time since 2015, at +7500, as the Wildcats look to pick up another win when they head to Tuscaloosa to play the fourth-ranked Crimson Tide at 6 p.m. Eastern time on Saturday.

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Christopher Boan

Christopher Boan is a staff writer for BetKentucky.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.