Sunday second-round action from Greensboro, so clearly a pro-UK crowd (again). If you throw out two perplexing losses to Vanderbilt recently, the Cats are starting to play to expectations. National rebounding leader Oscar Tshiebwe was a vacuum on the boards in Round 1 against Providence with 25 rebounds (most by any NCAA Tournament player in a couple of decades) and should dominate the glass again as KSU was last in the Big 12 in rebounding. Kentucky is 22-6 this season when winning the rebounding battle. It absolutely should do that Sunday.

Shop this line while you can as I've played this -1.5 personally. Kentucky has a pretty clear rebounding edge in this game, and ranks as a top three team in terms of generating second chance points. Kansas State is very likely to struggle with foul trouble dealing with the size and strengths of this Kentucky team. It's been one heck of a season for K-State, but the run ends here. My sims make Kentucky -5.5 in this matchup.