Colorado vs Kansas Prediction 2/24/25 College Basketball Picks Today

The Kansas Jayhawks and the Colorado Buffaloes meet Monday in college basketball action from Coors Events Center. Here’s a Colorado vs Kansas prediction. We will look at this from a betting perspective and determine the best Colorado vs Kansas pick.

Kansas Jayhawks Betting Preview

The Jayhawks started out on a great run this year, but they’ve been quite choppy in the record column since mid-January. Kansas opened with a 14-4 stretch, taking wins over Howard, North Carolina, Michigan State, Oakland, UNC Wilmington, Duke, Furman, NC State, Brown, UCF, Arizona State, Cincinnati, Kansas State, and TCU during that time. The Jayhawks would go just 3-5 over their next eight games, though. The wins in that run were over UCF, Iowa State, and Colorado. Otherwise, it was losses to Houston, Baylor, Kansas State, Utah and BYU. That would give Kansas a 17-9 overall record through their first 26 games of the season.

In the Saturday matchup with Oklahoma State, the Jayhawks jumped out to a commanding lead 52-23 after the first half. Kansas kept it up with a 44-41 run the rest of the way and ended up winning 96-64 in the end. Leading the team in scoring was Hunter Dickinson with his double-double of 16 points, 11 boards, and two steals. David Coit came off the bench to provide 15 points with four assists, one rebound, and one steal. Zeke Mayo added 15 points with three rebounds and two assists in 26 minutes of work on the floor as well.

Colorado Buffaloes Betting Preview

Over on the Colorado side, they were looking great in the record column themselves back in late December, but since then the Buffaloes have struggled mightily. A 9-2 record awaited Colorado in their first 11 games with wins over Eastern Washington, Northern Colorado, Cal State Fullerton, Harvard, UConn, Pacific, Colorado State, South Dakota State, and Bellarmine. The Buffaloes would win just one of their next 15 games though, taking out UCF on February 15. Otherwise, it was losses to Iowa State, Arizona State, UCF, West Virginia, Cincinnati, Oklahoma State, BYU, Arizona, Arizona State, TCU, Utah, Houston, Kansas, and Iowa State in that time. The result through 26 games was a 10-16 overall run for the Buffaloes.

Matched up against Baylor on Saturday, the Buffaloes held a modest deficit 32-30 by the break. Colorado came back on a 46-42 run in the second half though, and took the eventual victory 76-74. Leading the team in scoring was Andrej Jakimovski with 17 points, seven rebounds and five assists. RJ Smith added 13 points with two rebounds and two assists in 26 minutes of work as well.

Why the Colorado Buffaloes will win

• The home team has won each of Kansas’ last eight games.
• Kansas has lost each of its last four road games.
• The home team has won the first half in each of Kansas’ last six games.

Why the Kansas Jayhawks will win

• Colorado has lost each of its last eight night games.
• Kansas has won 34 of its last 42 night games against non-AP-ranked opponents.
• Colorado has lost the first half in each of its last eight games against AP-ranked opponents.

Colorado vs Kansas Prediction

I’ll stay with Kansas here. You could probably argue this one either way, though. The Jayhawks got a much-needed dominant home effort over the weekend versus Oklahoma State. Kansas shot a nice 52.1 percent from the field in that one along with a 48-28 rebounding advantage. The only blemish was Kansas’ 18 turnovers that resulted in 17 Cowboys points. The Jayhawks countered that with 27 points off 17 OSU turnovers in a pretty sloppy overall game ball-control-wise, though. In any case, the 96 points were Kansas’ highest total since scoring 99 in a win over UCF back on January 5, and it comes after just 124 combined points in the last pair.

These teams last saw each other recently, during a 71-59 home victory for the Jayhawks back on February 11. In that one Kansas played a pretty solid all-around game, notching 46.6 percent from the field, a 39-33 rebounding edge, 18 team assists, and just eight turnovers. Colorado shot 38.6 percent on the other side with just nine assists and eight turnovers of their own. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a more competitive game from the Buffaloes in the home rematch, but Kansas should still be in control here.