ESPN per usual has a Big Monday doubleheader this week and the marquee game tonight is the later one as No. 3 Iowa State visits No. 11 Kansas, who are favorites in the College Basketball Odds.
Iowa State at Kansas: 2025 NCAAB Expert Analysis in Week 14.
| Opening Spread/Totals Subject to Change: Kansas -3 (total 145.5) Expert Prediction: Kansas 73, Iowa State 70 |
How to Bet College Basketball Odds: Iowa State vs Kansas & TV Info
NCAAB Moneylines: Iowa State +108 / Kansas -132
When: Monday, 9 PM ET
Where: Allen Fieldhouse
TV: ESPN
Stream: ESPN+
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Iowa State Basketball Betting Insights
When the new polls come out Monday, Iowa State (17-4, 7-3 Big 12) will definitely fall out of the Top 10 as it lost a second straight game Saturday, 80-61 at home to Kansas State in a pretty big upset. The Wildcats ended a 15-game road losing streak — 12 of which occurred within the Big 12 – and snapped ISU’s 29-game home winning streak. Kansas State was the first under-.500 team to beat a team ranked in the top-5 of the AP poll by 15 or more points in the poll’s history.
KSU, which had five players in double-figures, led by Dug McDaniels’ 20 points, needed a strong shooting performance to complete the upset and they got it. The Wildcats were 10-of-20 (50 pct.) from 3-point range and 18-of-21 (85.7 pct.) at the free-throw line.
Tamin Lipsey
Lipsey led the Cyclones with 20 points, his third 20-point outing of the season. He also tied a season high with a trio of 3-pointers. Joshua Jefferson added 13 points and five rebounds, and Demarion Watson came off the bench to lead ISU on the boards with seven. The Cyclones only trailed by two at the break but couldn’t get their offense going in the second half, shooting just 22.0 pct. (9-of-33).
7-0 Run for the Good Guys.
— Iowa State Men’s Basketball (@CycloneMBB) February 1, 2025
#3 ISU 30 – KSU 28 | 3:48 1st Half#Cyclones | #C5C pic.twitter.com/BWBh6dYmq3
The Turnovers
The Cyclones tied a season-high with 18 turnovers Saturday, as they’ve gone back-to-back games with this amount of turnovers. Both games were losses. Coach TJ Otzelberger referred to the performance of his team as “extremely disappointing.” Kansas State held a plus-10 advantage on the glass, scored 30 points in the paint and scored 26 points off those 18 Iowa State turnovers.
TJ Otzelberger
“It wasn’t an effort that we’re proud of at all,” Otzelberger said. “Definitely different than our standard, what we expect and what we’ve demonstrated through the first 20 games so that one was different. Extremely disappointing because the areas that we really focus to demand on, especially rebounding, the rebounding thing was the difference in the game. There was a point in the game where it was 15-0 in second-chance points.”
It was Lipsey’s third 20-point game of the season and fifth of his career. He also dished out three assists and had a steal to give him 215 in his career, the second-most in school history.
Milan Momcilovic
ISU clearly misses injured top 3-point shooter Momcilovic. He was averaging 10 points while shooting 44 percent from the 3-point line when he suffered an injury in practice and hasn’t played since Jan. 11. That was five games ago, and he still ranks second in made triples, behind only leading scorer Curtis Jones.
The Road Games
They are 4-2 in road games this season and 6-3 in games not played in Hilton Coliseum. They lead the Big 12 in scoring offense at 83.0 points per game, which is 19th nationally, and steals per game at 9.8, which is 11th nationally. ISU is third in the league and 10th nationally in scoring margin at plus-15.5. It is second in the Big 12 in free throws attempted per game (23.4) and turnover margin (4.7, 10th nationally). The Cyclones have five players averaging in double figures, led by Jones at 17.9, which is third in the Big 12. Jones has made a team-high 56 threes and has 49 assists and 30 steals.
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Kansas Basketball Betting Insights
Kansas (15-6, 6-4) suffered an upset on Saturday, losing 81-70 to unranked Baylor despite leading 40-21 at halftime. Baylor’s Robert Wright III scored 20 of his 24 points in the second half, helping the team rally from a 21-point deficit. This marked Kansas’s biggest blown lead in program history, surpassing a previous 20-point lead loss to Arizona in 2003.
Against Baylor, the Jayhawks had a 20-0 edge in bench scoring at the break, but BU’s Jalen Celestine helped to close that gap by going 4-of-6 on 3-pointers after halftime. The final bench scoring margin was 28-12. Kansas had three fewer turnovers (14) than Baylor, but was outscored 24-11 in points off turnovers. The Bears scored 15 of those points after the break, and the Jayhawks shot 36% in the second half.
Bill Self
“They were great the second half, we were beyond pitiful,” KU coach Self said on the postgame show. Played great the first half, probably could have been up more than 19 to be honest with you, we missed some bunnies. And in the second half, we didn’t have anything going. We struggled against soft … pressure, again, and then we couldn’t guard them. And they were good. I mean, those guards were excellent. But we couldn’t guard them, and then the building got into it, and then we didn’t have any answers.”
Hunter Dickinson
Dickinson scored 20 points for Kansas, and Dajuan Harris Jr. had 12. It was Dickinson’s second-straight 20-point game, his seventh of the season and 55th of his career. Dickinson is second in the Big 12 in double-doubles with nine, which is 17th nationally. He is second in the Big 12 and 18th nationally in rebounds per game at 9.7 rpg.
Some stats at the half ⬇️
— Kansas Men’s Basketball (@KUHoops) February 1, 2025
🔴 @H_Dickinson24: 12 PTS, 2 REB
🔵 @GriffenRylan: 9 PTS, 2 AST
🔴 @DajuanH10: 6 PTS, 5 AST
Dajuan Harris Jr.
Harris recorded eight assists, placing him second on the all-time Big 12 assist list with 794, behind Aaron Miles. He also ranks second in the conference and 10th nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio at 3.37, averaging 5.9 assists per game. Senior guard Zeke Mayo scores 15.0 points per game and leads with 49 three-pointers.
Big Mondays
Another important aspect to consider in the college basketball odds, is the fact that Kansas holds a 79-23 all-time record on Big Monday, excelling with a 48-1 home record. Under Bill Self, they are 60-18 overall and 37-0 at home. Post-loss, Kansas is 127-21 in the Self era. This season, they are 2-2 against ranked teams. In Allen Fieldhouse, they are 22-3 against higher-ranked teams.
The Jayhawks leads the series with Iowa State, 189-69, which includes a 57-10 record in Allen Fieldhouse. The last Iowa State win in Lawrence was in 2017.
^Iowa State vs Kansas Last Meeting
On Jan. 15, Iowa State was ranked No. 2 and KU No. 9 when the Cyclones won 74-57 at home. Curtis Jones scored 25 points to lead ISU, made his first six shots and finished 5 of 6 on 3-pointers. Dishon Jackson had 17 points and Joshua Jefferson added a double-double of 10 points and 12 rebounds. Iowa State coach T.J. Otzelberger earned his 12th win against a top-10 opponent, tying Johnny Orr for the most in school history. The Jayhawks committed 17 turnovers and were out rebounded 43-33. All-American Hunter Dickinson had just 6 points.
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