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Big 12 Tournament Basketball Fearless Predictions, Game Previews: First Round


Iowa State vs. Oklahoma State, Kansas State vs. TCU college basketball fearless predictions and Big 12 Tournament game previews.


TCU vs. Kansas State

Iowa State vs. Oklahoma State Broadcast

Date: Wednesday, March 11
Game Time: 7:00 ET
Live Stream: fuboTV (click to watch for free)
Venue: Sprint Center, Kansas City, MO
Network: ESPNU

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Iowa State (12-19) vs. Oklahoma State (17-14) Game Preview

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What’s Going To Happen

The two split the regular season matchups with Iowa State winning 89-82 at home back in January and Oklahoma State taking the 73-61 game a few weeks ago.

The Cyclones are struggling, coming in losing five of the last six games and ten of the last 12 since beating the Cowboys. They can shoot, and they can move the ball around, but they can’t stop anyone from the outside and the offense hasn’t been able to keep up in blowout loss after blowout loss.

On the flip side, Oklahoma State has played well over the last few weeks. The defense has been solid, it’s great at stopping teams from getting into a groove from the outside, and the scoring punch has been just enough to pull away against the weaker teams.

The Cowboys will come up with their second double-digit win over Iowa State in the last five games.

Iowa State vs. Oklahoma State Prediction, Line

Oklahoma State 77, Iowa State 66
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Oklahoma State -6, o/u: 142.5
Live Stream: fuboTV (click to watch for free)
ATS Confidence out of 5: 3
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Must See Rating: 2

Kansas State vs. TCU Broadcast

Date: Wednesday, March 11
Game Time: 9:00 ET
Live Stream: fuboTV (click to watch for free)
Venue: Sprint Center, Kansas City, MO
Network: ESPNU

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Kansas State (10-21) vs. TCU (16-15) Game Preview

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What’s Going To Happen

It’s been a rough run for a Kansas State team that lost ten straight before finally beating up a bad Iowa State team. Along the way, it was rocked on the road by TCU in a 68-57 loss.

The first meeting – a 59-57 TCU win – was a lot more fun in early January, but since then the Wildcats have been miserable on the boards, awful from the field, and it has too many problems with turnovers.

The defense is just good enough to come up with a slew of takeaways, but TCU moves the ball around way too well.

The Horned Frogs shoot a whole lot of threes, and they should be able to come up with just enough big runs – and enough offensive rebounds when they aren’t on – to get into the second round without too much of a problem.

Kansas State vs. TCU Prediction, Line

TCU 67, Kansas State 60
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TCU -1.5, o/u: 127
Live Stream: fuboTV (click to watch for free)
ATS Confidence out of 5: 3.5
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Must See Rating: 2

5: (As long as everyone is as safe as possible) Keeping morale up by keeping games going, even if there aren’t any fans
1: Serie A being postponed

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