College Basketball Betting: Kentucky vs. Texas A&M Odds, SEC Championship

The top-seeded Texas A&M Aggies (26-7) used suffocating defense to get to their first-ever SEC tournament championship game and will try to finish what they started with a win over the second-seeded Kentucky Wildcats (25-8) on Sunday.

However, the Aggies are consensus three-point betting underdogs at sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark against a Kentucky team that has played in five of the past six SEC title games.

The Wildcats are the defending SEC tournament champions and have covered the spread as double-digit favorites in their first two games this year, taking out the 10th-seeded Alabama Crimson Tide, 85-59, in the quarterfinals Friday and the sixth-seeded Georgia Bulldogs, 93-80, Saturday.

Kentucky did get a scare early on against Georgia, trailing 49-44 at halftime before rolling after the intermission behind a game-high 26 points from Jamal Murray and 25 from Tyler Ulis.

Texas A&M will have a tough task trying to defend the backcourt of Murray and Ulis but should be fairly confident following a 71-38 rout of the fourth-seeded LSU Tigers in the semis.

The Aggies covered the spread easily as seven-point favorites and held LSU star freshman Ben Simmons to just 10 points. Simmons is now expected to head to the NBA, and he was the only Tiger to score in double figures.

LSU made a dismal 13 of 63 shots from the field (20.6 percent) and became the first team to total less than 40 points in the SEC tournament since Mississippi State in 1985. Texas A&M will be playing for a conference tournament championship for the first time since 1994.

The Aggies upset the Wildcats 79-77 as 1.5-point home underdogs in the only meeting between them this season on February 20. Kentucky had won the previous three games in the series straight up with a 2-1 mark against the spread, according to the OddsShark College Basketball Database.

Four of the past five meetings have gone over the total, but Texas A&M will likely need this to be a low-scoring game in order to be successful.

The Aggies are riding an eight-game winning streak overall heading into the SEC tournament championship game, going 7-1 ATS. The Wildcats have won four in a row SU and ATS, and they have taken home the title three times in the previous six years.