Despite a wave of optimism surrounding the Oregon State basketball team heading into the 2017-2018 season, the national consensus about the Beavers is that progress will happen at a gradual pace from last year’s 5-27 outing. ESPN already has failed to include Oregon State in it’s super early “Bracketology” and now, the Las Vegas Bovada has given the Beavers 500-1 odds to win the 2018 National Championship.
While it’s probably a bit premature to believe that in one season, Oregon State would go from dead-last in the Pac-12 to the champions of the NCAA Final Four, the importance of the odds is found within the teams that the Beavers are slated alongside.