What Seed Is Kansas For March Madness? Odds of Kansas Men’s Basketball Seed In 2025 NCAA Tournament

The springtime rite of passage in the Sunflower State – which is Kansas Jayhawks men’s basketball reaching the NCAA Tournament field of 68 – will likely roll on unimpeded this March.

KU has made the field in each of the past 34 tournaments, with No. 35 a near lock. The NCAA later vacated the school’s 2018 berth but there’s no erasing the two national championships and six trips to the Final Four between 2002 and 2024. Additionally, KU has been a top-four seed in every tournament since 2001.

So BetKansas.com, as part of our Kansas sports betting coverage, broke down the odds on where KU will be seeded in this year’s NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, with everything from a one to an eight seed being in play for KU right now.

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What Seed Will Kansas Be In NCAA Tournament?

Seed	Percentage Chance	Odds
1 Seed	+10000	1.0%
2 Seed	+1100	8.3%
3 Seed	+525	16.0%
4 Seed	+450	18.2%
5 Seed	+475	17.4%
6 Seed	+600	14.3%
7 Seed	+835	10.7%
8 Seed	+1300	7.1%
The Field	+1300	7.1%

This year, coach Bill Self and the Jayhawks are 17-8 overall and 8-6 in Big 12 play, five games behind Houston in the conference standings. KU’s second leg of a Wasatch road trip comes tonight with a showdown at unranked BYU, then the Jayhawks return home to host Oklahoma State on Saturday afternoon.

Going into tonight’s game against the Cougars in Provo, Utah (8 p.m. Central, ESPN), DraftKings Kansas Sportsbook has KU as a 2.5-point road underdog with a +136 moneyline on the Jayhawks compared with -162 odds that BYU moves to 9-6 in conference play on Tuesday night.

As of Feb. 18, KU is ranked 16th on KenPom.com and 15th on the NCAA’s NET rankings. ESPN bracket expert Joe Lunardi has Kansas as a fifth seed, facing 12th seeded McNeese in the first round.

Kansas NCAA Tournament Seed Scenarios

These odds are exclusive to betKansas.com but you can find of NCAA basketball lines, props and futures at Kansas sports betting apps.

This week, we’re giving KU +400 odds of landing on the sixth seed line, ranking just ahead of the Jayhawks’ +425 odds of entering March Madness as a fifth seed. A 74-67 loss at unranked Utah on Feb. 15 has dented the team’s chances of landing a higher seed, but the Jayhawks have six games left to boost their standing. We give +500 odds that KU drops to a seventh seed and +600 odds on a climb to No. 4 for March Madness.

Kansas also has +875 odds of plummeting to the eighth seed line come Selection Sunday, with +1100 odds of climbing to the third seed line and so on.

For reference, the last time that Kansas was lower than fourth seed in the tournament was in 2000, when head coach Roy Williams got KU into the Big Dance as an eighth seed after going 24-10 overall, illustrating how far the Jayhawks have fallen this basketball season.

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Christopher Boan

Christopher Boan is a lead writer at BetKansas.com specializing in covering state issues. He covered sports and sports betting in Arizona for more than seven years.