Free NCAA Hoops Pick: Wildcats vs. Mountaineers CBB Odds
Looking for Kansas State Wildcats vs. West Virginia Mountaineers NCAA basketball free picks & CBB odds? CBB betting sees the Wildcats taking on the Mountaineers on Saturday February 1 at the WVU Coliseum. Cappers Picks provides complimentary expert handicapping picks on all college basketball matchups all season long so stay tuned for more FREE daily basketball predictions like this Wildcats Mountaineers matchup.
2019-2020 NCAA Basketball
(9-11) Kansas State Wildcats vs. West Virginia Mountaineers (16-4)
Date: Saturday February 1
Time: 2:00 PM ET
Venue: WVU Coliseum, Morgantown, WV
CBB Moneyline Odds: OFF
CBB Betting Odds: West Virginia -12
CBB Betting Total: 131.5
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Big 12 basketball. Two defensive-minded teams. One top-25 team. 2:00 PM start time!
I finished January at 13-3 on my CBB picks posted here on CappersPicks! I hope to start February off just as hot, so let’s get into it…
Kansas State Wildcats
K State is coming off of a solid home win against Oklahoma, who is a KenPom top-50 team.
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However, they’ve struggled in recent weeks. They’ve lost six of their last eight, and have dropped to 2-5 in conference play. They did, however, obliterate West Virginia at home on Jan. 18th, winning by 16 after being pinned as 6.5-point underdogs.
They have a solid defense. Top-50 in KenPom adjusted defense, and they’re top-10 in the nation in turnover%. Oddly, though, they don’t really rebound well, and they fall outside the top-100 in effective FG% against.
Additionally, they are awful offensively. They score only 65.5 points/game, which falls outside the top-300 in the nation. 180th in KenPom adjusted offense, 226th in effective FG%, 290th in offensive rating, et cetera.
They have two guys that score more than 10 points/game, in Xavier Sneed and Cartier Diarra. However, Diarra is shooting 40.4% from the field and Sneed is shooting 39.2% from the field. Their three-point shooting splits are even worse. This team has offensive issues in spades.
West Virginia Mountaineers
West Virginia is the best defensive team in the nation, bar-none.
However, that loss against Texas Tech should raise some concerns. Personally, I think TTU is… kind of overrated. However, it’s worth noting that the Red Raiders shot 65% from deep that game (11-17) to the Mountaineer’s 22% (4-18).
That seems to be the one problem that WVU has. Their 3PA/FGA is 320th in the nation (30%), and their 3P% is 313th in the nation (30.1%). Long-range shooting doesn’t seem to be their game.
The Mountaineers also have a poor effective FG% (48.1%, 232nd in the nation) and a poor turnover% (20.5%, 260th in the nation). However, they do excel in two areas offensively: Offensive rebounding, where their Off. Reb% is first in the nation (40.3%) and they get to the line at the fourth-highest rate in the nation (FTA/FGA% of 43.1%).
More importantly, the Mountaineers are a unit defensively. Third overall in KenPom adjusted defense, second overall in effective FG% against (41.8%), fourth overall in 3P% against (27.2%) and 11th overall in 2PT% against (42.5%). They allow only 61.5 points/game, which is good for 23rd in the nation.
CBB Betting Trends:
- KSU are 5-12 ATS in their last 17 games overall.
- WVU are 7-2 ATS in their last 9 games overall.
- WVU are 6-0 ATS in their last 6 games at home.
- Under is 9-4 in KSU last 13 vs. Big 12.
- The total has gone UNDER in 4 of WVU’S last 6 games against KSU.
- The total has gone UNDER in 6 of WVU’s last 7 games played on a Saturday.
Free Kansas State Wildcats vs. West Virginia Mountaineers NCAAB Prediction: Mountaineers in a low-scoring affair.
Both these teams, as I wrote above, have offensive issues in spades. Both the Wildcats and the Mountaineers are inefficient on the offensive end, and (logically) they both don’t score a lot.
They also both rely heavily on their defense. KSU has a pretty good defense, but as I mentioned above, WVU’s defense is the best in the nation (in my not-so-humble opinion).
As an aside, early tip-off times (2pm in this case) scream Under at me. These two teams are bad on offense, good on defense, and are playing wicked early on a Saturday. Feed me the under.
These two have a bunch of similarities. However, the biggest difference here, and why i’m betting WVU, are the rebounding stats. WVU is a really good rebounding team (1st in Off. Reb. %), while KSU is a really bad rebounding team (122nd in Off. Reb. %, 275th in Def. Reb. %). In what I expect to be a physical game, I see the Mountaineers having a clear advantage in this regard.
4* Free CBB Betting Pick: West Virginia -14.5 & Lean Under.
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