Kansas Jayhawks vs. Texas Longhorns
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The second leg of ESPN’s Big Monday telecast takes us to Austin, TX where the Texas Longhorns (19-4, 8-11 ATS) will look to secure their 20th win of the season when they host the #1 ranked Kansas Jayhawks (22-1, 9-10-1 ATS). The Jayhawks most recently sleepwalked to a 75-64 home win against the Nebraska Cornhuskers, but failed miserably for their betting backers by never coming close to covering the 21-point closing pointspread. Texas failed to sweep its two-game road stint through Oklahoma, as it was outhustled from the opening tip against the Sooners on Saturday and ultimately fell by an 80-71 final tally as 6.5-point road chalk.

KU enters tonight’s stiff road test winners of eight in a row after fending off the Huskers last Saturday, but they haven’t been kind to their CBB betting backers of late. The pointspread loss to Big Red marked the third straight contest in which they failed to get the job done against the closing pointspread. It’s hard to fault HC bill Self’s club though, as the Jayhawks have gone through the ringer in terms of a rough schedule. It also hasn’t helped that they’ve been taken to overtime in each of their L/2 road contests (@ K-State & Colorado). Thankfully for the city of Lawrence, their team is very deep this season. C Cole Aldrich only played 21 minutes against Nebraska, which should have the teams leading rebounder ready to bang with Texas’ “Bigs” tonight.

As for Texas, it’s alternated SU wins and losses its L/4 times out and enters tonight’s battle with the country’s top ranked team just 2-4 SU & 1-5 ATS its L/6 games. That said; they’re 12-1 SU at home this season with the lone loss occurring in OT to Baylor the last time they took to the Erwin Center hardwood. Their defense has been a problem of late (78.2 PPG allowed L/5), but with the home crowd enthusiastically backing them, look for them to pick it up at that end of the court tonight. They have the big men and depth to go toe-to-toe with the Jayhawks.

KU has taken each of the L/2 in this series both SU & ATS, but the Horns had covered 6 of the previous 8 meetings. Texas is also a solid 5-1 ATS the L/6 times it was dogged at home, so it’s highly possible the Horns protect their house and upend a Jayhawks team that comes into this battle running on fumes.

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