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Best bets for 2016 NCB title

The Mayor might be gone from Ames, but Iowa State is in good hands with Georges Niang. Joe Robbins/Getty Images

LAS VEGAS -- Whenever we do one of these "best bets" columns for the next year right after a season ends, the comments tend to have a common theme.

"It's foolish to bet these so far in advance. There's too much uncertainty." And so on.

That's true to a certain extent, and maybe never more so than with college basketball, which is what we're looking at with the release of the 2015-16 NCAA men's basketball title odds. As of now, we don't have a full list of which underclassmen are going to declare for the NBA draft, and it's hard to project which incoming freshmen will have the biggest impact on their teams, among other factors to consider.