The No. 1 seed Kansas Jayhawks (25-6, 14-4 Big 12) are favored by 9.5 points in their Big 12 Tournament matchup against the No. 9 seed West Virginia Mountaineers (16-16, 4-14 Big 12) on Thursday at T-Mobile Center, beginning at 3:21 PM. The winner will move one step closer to earning an automatic spot in the NCAA Tournament bracket.
Rankings courtesy of the Ferris Mowers Coaches Poll powered by USA TODAY Sports.
Kansas is 13-17-0 against the spread, while West Virginia’s ATS record this season is 14-18-0. The Jayhawks are 15-13-2 and the Mountaineers are 19-13-0 in terms of hitting the over. The two teams score 147.2 points per game, 1.7 more points than this matchup’s total. Over the past 10 games, Kansas is 5-5-0 against the spread and 7-3 overall while West Virginia has gone 5-5-0 against the spread and 3-7 overall.
Here is what you need to prepare for Thursday’s college hoops action in Big 12 play.
West Virginia at Kansas odds, spread and lines
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- Spread: Kansas -9.5
- Total: 145.5
- Moneyline: Kansas -531, West Virginia +389
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West Virginia at Kansas odds, spread, & more
Prediction
Kansas 77, West Virginia 65
Moneyline
- The Jayhawks have won 24 of the 29 games they were the moneyline favorite this season (82.8%).
- Kansas is 15-1 (winning 93.8% of its games) when playing as a moneyline favorite of -531 or shorter.
- The Jayhawks have an implied moneyline win probability of 84.2% in this matchup.
- The Mountaineers have won two, or 12.5%, of the 16 games they’ve played as underdogs this season.
- West Virginia has been at least a +389 moneyline underdog three times this season, and lost all of those games.
- The implied probability of a win by the Mountaineers based on the moneyline is 20.4%.
Against the spread
- The 78.6 points per game the Jayhawks average are 10.2 more points than the Mountaineers allow (68.4).
- When Kansas scores more than 68.4 points, it is 13-12 against the spread and 23-3 overall.
- When West Virginia allows fewer than 78.6 points, it is 10-15 against the spread and 15-10 overall.
- The Mountaineers score an average of 68.6 points per game, the same as the Jayhawks give up.
- When it scores more than 68.6 points, West Virginia is 9-5 against the spread and 9-5 overall.
- Kansas is 11-6 against the spread and 17-0 overall when it allows fewer than 68.6 points.
- The Jayhawks have put up a total of 309 more points than their opponents this year (an average of 10 per game), and the Mountaineers have out-scored opponents by just seven points on the season (0.2 more per game).
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Over/Under
- The Jayhawks have an average implied point total equal to their implied total in Thursday’s game (78).
- So far this season, Kansas has scored more than 78 points in 13 games.
- The Mountaineers’ implied point total in this matchup (68 points) equals the team’s season average.
- So far this season, West Virginia has scored more than 68 points 17 times.
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