College Basketball Picks: Kansas Betting Favorites in Odds vs Missouri

The #2 Kansas Jayhawks and the Missouri Tigers will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday afternoon at 2:00pm EST when they meet at the Mizzou Arena in a game that can be seen on CBS. College basketball picks have the Jayhawks listed as 3-point favorites against the Tigers while the game's total is sitting at 146. Xavier Henry dropped 19 points as Kansas downed Kansas State 82-65 on Wednesday night. Kansas covered as 8.5-point home favorites in college basketball odds while the game played UNDER the 150-point total set at online sportsbooks.

The Jayhawks dropped 45 points in the first half and never looked back to record another Big 12 championship. Sherron Collins netted 17 points in his final home game with Kansas to win their sixth straight title. "This is it, it's the last one," said Collins after the game. "I didn't want to get off the court. I wanted it to go on all night, but it couldn't." Heading into today's match-up, Kansas is 28-2 straight up on the season, 11-15-1 against the spread as favorites in college basketball picks and 9-1 after playing Kansas State.

J.T. Tiller dropped 17 points to lift Missouri past Iowa State 69-67 in overtime on Tuesday night. Missouri failed to cover as 5-point road favorites while the teams played UNDER the 145-point total listed by odds makers. Missouri was able to defeat Iowa State as Zaire Taylor went coast to coast for a buzzer beating layup in overtime. Tiller tied his season high while Marcus Denmon netted 16 points to lift the Tigers to their fourth win in the past five games.

Heading into today's match-up, Missouri is 22-8 straight up on the season, 14-10 against the spread as underdogs in college basketball picks and 4-6 after playing Iowa State. The Tigers are 13-1 straight up in their last 14 games at home while Kansas is 7-1 straight up in their last 8 games when playing Missouri. The basketball betting total has gone OVER in 6 of Missouri's last 8 games when playing at home against Kansas and OVER in 6 of Kansas's last 8 games when playing on the road against the Tigers. Vegas odds at the MGM Mirage sportsbook have Kansas -3 favorites against Missouri with a total of 145.5.