Iowa State vs. Oklahoma Pick – Basketball Predictions & Odds 2/25/23

The Oklahoma Sooners and the Iowa State Cyclones meet in college basketball action from the Hilton Coliseum on Saturday afternoon. Let’s dive into the odds, injuries, matchup history and make a prediction for this game.

Odds

Iowa State is listed as a 7.5-point favorite with a total for this game set at 127.5 points.

Injuries

For Oklahoma, Bijan Cortes is out indefinitely with a personal matter while Caleb Grill is questionable for this game for Iowa State with a back injury.

Matchup History

Iowa State’s 63-60 win over Oklahoma back on January 4^th, 2023, made it back-to-back wins for Iowa State in this matchup.

Trends

Oklahoma is 3-8-1 ATS in their last 12 games overall and 1-4 ATS in their last 5 road games while the over is 6-1-1 in their last 8 games overall. Iowa State is 5-2 ATS in their last 7 home games and 2-8 ATS in their last 10 games overall while the under is 4-0 in their last 4 games overall.

Pick

I’m backing the under here. I don’t expect Oklahoma to have a ton of success against the most efficient defense in the Big 12 in Iowa State but as bad as Oklahoma’s defense has been, I also don’t think that Iowa State is going to run up the score in this one. This has the feeling of a first to 65 wins kind of game regardless of who gets the cover here, so give me the under here.