Kansas State vs. Iowa State: College Basketball Best Bets, Picks & Predictions (Tuesday)
Kansas being dealt its second-worst home loss in the Bill Self era (83-60 to TCU) and Arizona staying alive for a Pac-12 regular-season title with a home win over UCLA were some of the weekend’s highlights around the college basketball landscape.
Here are our best bets for Tuesday’s college basketball action. Below is a closer look at Kansas State vs. Iowa State.
YTD (as of 1/21): 1-2
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Best College Basketball Bets for Tuesday: Kansas State vs. Iowa State
Odds courtesy of DraftKings
Kansas State vs. Iowa State
Iowa State is the country’s seventh-best team in adjusted defensive efficiency and the Division I leader in turnovers forced (28.4%). That is a big reason the Cyclones are the Big 12 leaders in scoring defense (58.6 points per game allowed) by a wide margin. In addition, Kansas State is the perfect opponent for the style of defense the Cyclones want to play. The Wildcats are a rim-reliant team that ranks in the top 16 in close shot rate (per Haslam), and Iowa State allows the 350th-lowest percentage of opponents’ points to come inside the arc. Thus, Kansas State’s lead guard tandem of Markquis Nowell and Keyontae Johnson will not be able to penetrate as often as they would like, and the Wildcats rank outside the top 100 in 3-point shooting. On the other side, Iowa State’s league-best 40.3% shooting from beyond the arc should be negated by Kansas State’s 26% allowed from 3-point range in league play.
This play opposes the trend that the Over is 4-0 in Kansas State’s last four road games as well as Iowa State’s last four at home.
Bet: Kansas State-Iowa State UNDER 134.5 (-110 at DraftKings)
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