NC State vs Kansas Game Information

NC State vs Kansas Preview

No. 10 Kansas (7-2, 5-0 at Home) plays host to NC State (7-3, 0-0 on Road) on Saturday afternoon in a nice ACC-Big 12 matchup on a day filled with an abundance of great NCAA Basketball games. The Jayhawks head in here losers of 2 straight, falling at Missouri (78-67) and at Creighton  (76-63), after beating UNCW (84-66), Duke (75-72), and Furman (86-51). The Wolfpack are just the opposite in that they have won 2 straight, topping Coppin State in their last game (66-56) and Florida State (84-74, OT) after losing 3 straight to Texas (63-59), BYU (72-61), and Purdue (71-61). The 2025 NCAA Tournament Futures market at DraftKings shows Kansas at 17/1 to win it all this year with NC State priced at 130/1.

NC State Playing its First True Road Game Here

NC State (4-6-0 ATS, 3-7-0 O/U) averages 74.7 ppg (#216) while allowing 65.4 ppg and average 34.5 rpg (Tied #292) and 13.1 apg (Tied-#263) and this is their first true Road game and will be a true test with the Preseason No. 1 ranked team. The Wolfpack are led by G Marcus Hill (13.0 ppg, 3.3 rpg), G Jayden Taylor (12.5 ppg), G Dontrez Styles (10.6 ppg, 4.7 rpg), F Ben Middlebrooks (9.2 ppg, 4.3 rpg), F Brandon Huntley-Hatfield (8.7 ppg, 5.5 rpg), and G Michael O’Connell (6.8 ppg, 4.2 apg). Last year in ACC play, NC State (+800 Moneyline) went just 9-11 in conference but an impressive 26-15 overall and had a Cinderella season in the Big Dance (Final Four) behind big man DJ Burns and DJ Horne, both now long gone with Burns playing for the Goyang Sono Skygunners in the Korean Basketball League (KBL) and Horne with the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA.

NC State Betting Trends

• NC State is 7-3 SU in its last 10 with 2 of its last 3 losses to Purdue
• The Wolfpack are 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games overall 
• NC State was 20-20-1 ATS last season (50%)
• The Under is 7-3-0 in the last 10 NC State games overall
• NC State is 324-326-17 ATS since 2003 (49.9%)

Kansas Looking to Get Off a 2-Game Schneid

Kansas (4-5-0 ATS, 1-8-0 O/U) has been a profitable Under team this 2024-25 NCAA Basketball season, with only one Jayhawks game to date going Over the closing Total, a 92-89 win over North Carolina (160) on November 8. The Jayhawks are led by big man (7-2, 265) and key cog Hunter Dickinson (15.0 ppg, 9.6 rpg), G Zeke Mayo (10.9 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 3.3 apg), Dajuan Harris Jr. (10.7 ppg, 5.9 apg), F KJ Adams Jr. (9.8 ppg, 3.8 rpg, 2.6 apg), G AJ Storr (8.4 ppg), G Rylan Griffen (7.5 ppg), G David Colt (6.8 ppg), and F Flory Bidunga (6.6 ppg, 5.0 rpg). Kansas (-1400 Moneyline) had a below average by its own lofty standards in the Big 12 last year, finishing 10-8 SU in Conference and 23-11 overall. This is a game they need to win.

Kansas Betting Trends

• Kansas is 7-3 SU in last 10 games overall 
• The Jayhawks have been Favorites in 8 of their last 10 games
• The Under is 7-0-0 in Kansas’s last 7 games
• The Over is 2-8-0 in the Jayhawks last 10 games overall
• Kansas is 17-3 in the last 20 on the First Half Moneyline (+10.30 Units, 3% ROI)

NC State vs Kansas Prediction

The Jayhawks are 2-0 vs NC State, winning 60-57 in 2012 but failing to cover ATS as 8.5-Point Favorites in a game that went Under the closing Total (143) by 10 points and winning 80-74 in 2022 in a game that pushed the Total of 154. With the Jayhawks on a run of 7 straight Unders and NC State 7-3-0 to the Under in its last 10 dribbles, this NC State vs Kansas NCAAB pick will look to the Totals market and will keep riding the Under until it goes Over. This is a Site the Wolfpack players will be unfamiliar with and NC State lost too many key players from last year’s Miracle of March Madness squad like Horne (16.9 ppg), Burns (12.9 ppg), Casey Morsell (8.2 ppg), and Mohammed Diarra (6.3 ppg)—four of their top 5 scorers—and could only muster 66 points against an 0-12 Coppin State team in its last game at historic Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh, a team whose last win came almost a year ago (January 8, 2023 vs Maryland-Eastern Shore). That speaks volumes.

Kevin’s Pick: NC State-Kansas Under 144.5