California vs Kansas State 11/11/22 College Basketball Picks, Predictions, Odds

The Kansas State Wildcats and the Cal Golden Bears meet in college basketball action from the Haas Pavilion on Friday night.

The Kansas State Wildcats will be out to build on their 93-59 win over UTRGV last time out. Naeqwan Tomlin led the Wildcats with 14 points on 6 of 12 shooting with a team-high 8 rebounds while Markquis Nowell had 14 points as well with 3 threes, a team-high 7 assists and 4 steals. Keyontae Johnson added 13 points on 4 of 8 shooting with 3 threes and 4 assists. Abayomi Iyiola added 12 points on a perfect 5 of 5 from the floor while Ismael Massoud and Desi Sills each had 10 points to cap off the scoring in double figures for the Wildcats in the win.

The Cal Golden Bears will look to rebound from a 75-65 loss at the hands of UC-Davis last time out. Devin Askew led the Golden Bears with 19 points along with a team-high 4 assists while Lars Thiemann had 17 points on 7 of 11 shooting with a team-high 8 rebounds and a pair of steals. Kuany Kusny added 10 points to cap off the trio of double-digit scorers for Cal in the losing effort while Joel Brown had 7 rebounds and Sam Alajiki had 6 rebounds.

Kansas State is 0-4 ATS in their last 4 Friday games and 6-1 ATS in their last 7 games following a win while the over is 5-0 in their last 5 road games. Cal is 7-1 ATS in their last 8 games following a double-digit loss at home and 1-4 ATS in their last 5 Friday games while the over is 5-1-1 in their last 7 games following an ATS loss.

I get the case to be made for an underdog in certain spots, but this isn’t one of them. Cal may be at home, but the Golden Bears looked dreadful in their opener and I just don’t trust them here against a fairly loaded Kansas State team. The Wildcats had a lot of things going right in their game and I just think that this Kansas State team is a team to watch out for this season. Give me the Wildcats laying the points.