Kansas vs West Virginia +5 O/U 146.5
The Big 12 has all good teams this year and seeing Kansas as only a 5 point favorite vs maybe the worst team in the big 12 is really something. Now to be honest, I do not know what to do with the side in this game. Kansas coach Bill Self and West Virginia coach Bob Huggins have a great respect for one another. What I do know is that both of these teams like to play fast. West Virginia runs the court ranking 1st in the conference at 69.5 possessions per game while Kansas is second at 68.2. Now that is saying something because these teams play in an overall slow paced conference. Neither defense is really that good with Kansas’s ranking 37th in all of basketball while West Virginia’s ranks dead last in the Big 12. Now West Virginia isn’t the best shooting team out there only ranking 297th in FG% but they at least get a lot of fast break points ranking 12th at Haslametrics at potential quick points off of breakaway steals. Kansas ranks 67th right there and number 1 in FG% in the Big 12. I think that the 1st half over is worth a look. I would take the whole game but there could be a blow out here if Kansas really steps it up second half.
1st half over 68.5 – 2 stars
