Kentucky’s Unbeaten Season Makes Vegas Squirm

Kentucky’s Unbeaten Season Makes Vegas Squirm

Kentucky Wildcats Head Coach John Calipari

 

(Bloomberg) — The University of Kentucky’s undefeated regular season has Nick Bogdanovich sweating. If the Wildcats don’t lose this year, his employer will.The director of trading at sports book operator William Hill U.S., Bogdanovich in July listed 50-1 odds that the Wildcats would win a national title with a perfect 40-0 record.

He took about 10 bets at that price before narrowing the odds, which fell all the way to even money as Kentucky rolled through its regular-season schedule. With the 31-0 Wildcats scheduled to take the floor again this week in their conference tournament — and the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament after that — William Hill is facing a high six-figure loss on that offer if Kentucky runs the table.

“We’ve got quite a bit of danger on that go-undefeated prop,” Bogdanovich said in a telephone interview. “Not seven figures, it won’t reach that high thank goodness.”

 

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