The No. 9 ranked Kansas University Jayhawks, (23-4, 8-4 Big 12 ) travels to Manhattan, Kan., to take on in-state rivals Kansas State University Wildcats (19-8, 8-4 Big 12) at Bramlage Coliseum in a college basketball game to be nationally televised by ESPN with tip-off at 9 p.m. EST.
The Jayhawks are favored in the game by a -5-point chalk offshore at most sportsbooks with a 135 point total.
Kansas has won eight of its last 10 games straight up and covered four of its last five games against the spread including defeating the Wildcats 97-70 and easily covering the -10 ½ point line at Fog-Allen field house in Lawrence on Feb. 7. The OVER has cashed in totals betting in eight of the last 10 games the Jayhawks played.
The Wildcats have won eight of their last 10 games SU and cashed in their last 8-of-10 games ATS while the OVER/UNDER split 5-5 in the last ten games in totals betting.
Kansas State has made Bramlage Coliseum one of the toughest home venues in the Big 12, as the Wildcats have posted a 12-1 mark at home this season, including a perfect 7-0 mark in non-conference games. The team has tallied an impressive 73-24 (.753) mark at home since the start of 2001-02 season, including 10 or more wins each of the past six years.
Kansas enters Monday’s contest as perhaps the hottest team in the country with a 23-4 overall record and 10-2 mark in Big 12 Conference play after dismantling Nebraska, 92-39, on Saturday afternoon at home. The Jayhawks are a riding a four-game winning streak, in which the team has won by an average of 31.8 points, including a 97-70 win over Kansas State on Feb. 7. Kansas shot 58.3 percent from the field, including an astounding 66.7 percent in the second half, as it handled the Cornhuskers the second-worst defeat in their 110-year history. Eight players scored in six or more points in the game, including five in double figures, led by 13 apiece from sophomore guard Brandon Rush and freshman guard Darrell Arthur.
