Big 12 Tournament Betting Preview: Kansas, Oklahoma, West Virginia Odds

The top-ranked and top-seeded Kansas Jayhawks (27-4) clinched at least a share of the Big 12 regular-season title for the 12th consecutive year, making them +130 favorites on the odds to win the Big 12 tournament at sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark.

However, that stellar track record has not led to the same kind of success in the Big 12 tournament, as Kansas has won it just once in the past four years.

The Jayhawks went 15-3 in Big 12 play this season and have vaulted to the No. 1 spot in the polls thanks to a current 11-game winning streak that has seen them also go 9-2 against the spread, according to the OddsShark College Basketball Database.

Kansas last won the Big 12 tournament in 2013, beating the second-seeded Kansas State Wildcats 70-54 as 5.5-point favorites in the title game. The Jayhawks have taken home six Big 12 tourney titles in the previous 11 years they won the regular-season title.

Kansas State (16-15) is the No. 8 seed in 2016 after playing in the Big 12 tournament championship game twice in the past six years and a member of the field at +3300 to win it for the first time ever.

The two other teams in the field include the ninth-seeded Oklahoma State Cowboys (12-19) and 10th-seeded TCU Horned Frogs (11-20).

The second-seeded West Virginia Mountaineers (24-7) are the other team in the conference to earn a bye, as they will take on the winner between the seventh-seeded Texas Tech Red Raiders (19-11) and the Horned Frogs in the quarterfinals on Thursday.

The Mountaineers are the +225 second choice on the college basketball betting lines to win the Big 12 tournament, while the Red Raiders might as well be a member of the field too at +3300.

The third-seeded Oklahoma Sooners (24-6) will try to spoil West Virginia’s shot at getting to the championship game for the first time as the +400 third choice to win it.

The Sooners went 5-4 straight up but 2-7 against the spread in their last nine games after becoming the No. 1 team in the nation, and they will face the sixth-seeded Iowa State Cyclones (21-10) in the quarters.

Iowa State won the Big 12 tournament each of the past two years under former head coach Fred Hoiberg and is +800 to do it again.