Kansas State-Baylor, Kentucky-South Carolina, West Virginia-DePaul, Michigan-Michigan State are some of the biggest bets by sports handicappers on tonight’s college basketball card. Bodog gives us the rundown.
The Kansas State Wildcats look to remain perfect against ranked teams as they visit the Baylor Bears tonight, trying to end the Bears’ school-record 11-game home winning streak.
College basketball betting odds have the Bears listed as 2.5-point home favorites.
The Wildcats are averaging 81.7 points, but they were held below 70 points for the second time on Saturday in a 73-69 loss to Oklahoma State. Leading scorer Jacob Pullen was held to 11 points, shooting 2 of 15 for a second straight game.
For Pullen and the Wildcats, a visit to Baylor won’t be easy. The Bears began their current home win streak with a win over Georgetown in last year’s NIT, and Kansas State has lost its last two visits to Waco, Texas.
The Bears lost their only game against a ranked opponent, falling 81-75 to Kansas last Wednesday. The series between Kansas State and Baylor is tied at 10 games apiece.
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The Michigan State Spartans have matched the best Big Ten start in school history and are aiming to repeat as conference champions and to win one more game than they did last season when they were runner-up to North Carolina in the national title game.
The Michigan Wolverines are hoping to make it back to the NCAA tournament after earning the school’s first bid since 1998 last season.
The two square off tonight in Ann Arbor.
College basketball betting odds have the Spartans listed as 4-point road favorites.
Michigan State has had its way with Michigan, winning 16 of the last 19 games in the series.
Michigan’s chances to pull off an upset improved when coach John Beilein decided to reinstate star guard Manny Harris after a one-game suspension for an undisclosed incident in Friday’s practice.
The Wolverines are 5-0 ATS in their last five games as an underdo
For the first time in almost seven years, the Kentucky Wildcats play as the nation’s top-ranked team when they try to avoid a third consecutive loss to the South Carolina Gamecocks tonight in an SEC matchup.
College basketball betting odds have the Wildcats listed as 7-point road favorites.
Averaging 84.5 points and shooting 48.4 percent through four conference games, Kentucky faces an immediate challenge as the country’s new No. 1 team.
Though South Carolina is mired in a season-high three-game losing streak, the Gamecocks snapped a four-game skid in the series and won both meetings last season.
Devan Downey had 23 points in South Carolina’s 78-77 win at Kentucky on Jan. 31, and he scored 21 in a 77-59 home rout of the Wildcats on Feb. 25.
South Carolina, 0-2 against Top 25 teams this season, is 0-7 all-time when facing the nation’s No. 1 team.
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Tuesday night’s game at DePaul is what you would call a potential trap game for No. 9 West Virginia. Here are the reasons why: The Mountaineers expended a lot of energy on Saturday in rallying from 14 points down at home to beat ranked Ohio State; challenging games with Louisville and Pittsburgh follow this game for WVU, but both of those are back at home; and while DePaul appears to be not much of a threat, conference road games can always be tricky. Still, WVU is -15.5 on Bodog’s NCAA Basketball Odds
DePaul (8-11, 7-7-1 ATS) is probably the worst team in the Big East and has won just three times overall in the past 13 games this season and dropped 24 of its past 25 regular-season conference games. DePaul is 1-3 (2-2 ATS) since Tracy Webster was named interim head coach replacing the fired Jerry Wainwright. Since joining the Big East in 2005, DePaul is 0-3 against West Virginia. The Blue Demons are led by guard Will Walker, who is the only starter averaging double-figure points (16.0). He had 31 in a 19-point loss to WVU last year, but he’s about the only threat DePaul has right now.
West Virginia (15-3, 7-10 ATS) has had a troubling habit of starting slow and digging a hole in the past five games, and it is 3-2 in those (2-3 ATS). The Mountaineers are shooting just 44.7% as a team overall, which is ninth in the Big East. Da’Sean Butler, Kevin Jones and Devin Ebanks have scored 53.2 percent of the team’s points this season. Those three should have their way tonight against the small Blue Demons – Butler in particular has torched DePaul in the past.
When making your college basketball bet on this one, know that WVU is unbeaten in 22 games all-time under Bob Huggins when shooting better than 50 percent. And the Mountaineers have won 38 of their past 42 against unranked teams. DePaul has lost its past 19 against ranked foe.
