2019 Naismith College Basketball Player of the Year Odds
By Mitch Robson
Updated:
- Zion Williamson was the runaway winner of the 2018-19 Naismith POY
- Williamson’s win pushed Duke’s total of Naismith Award Winners to 8
- See the Current Naismith Odds here
We tracked the odds for the Naismith award for the entirety of the 2018-19 college basketball season, in which Zion Williamson was a dominant force throughout. Williamson had a historic season at Duke, and here you can see how his odds moved throughout the course of the season.
The graphs on this page are generated by calculating the average from many of our most trusted sportsbooks.
2019 Naismith Top Contenders
Odds On Zion Williamson Winning the Naismith Award
| Will Zion Williamson Win the Naismith Award in 2019? | Odds |
|---|---|
| Yes | -300 |
| No | +200 |
Odds taken on March 1, 2019
As you can see, the 2019 Naismith Award race turned into a case of Zion Williamson and “everybody else.”
The freshman phenom saw his opening odds of +450 get progressively shorter, peaking at -700 on February 15th before suffering a mild knee sprain in a game against North Carolina.
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Mitch graduated from Ryerson University's Sport Media program in June of 2018, and has been with SBD since 2019. He's worked in broadcast and digital for the Score, Sportsnet, TSN & CBC and has done play-by-play work for basketball at all levels including NCAA, Pan Am Games & U Sports.
