#659 ASA PLAY ON Kansas State +6 over Baylor, Wednesday at 7 PM ET - KSU started the Big 12 season with a 1-6 record but they’ve since won 9 of their last 14 games including wins over Kansas, Arizona, and Iowa State. They are getting healthy with starter Hawkins is back in the line up after missing 3 games and 2 of those were losses. Since late January, KSU rates better than this Baylor team at 29th in the country compared to 33rd (per Bart Torvik). The Wildcats have been lock down defensively during that stretch with the 2nd best defensive efficiency numbers in the country since January 24th. It took the Cats and head coach Jerome Tang some time to get their talented transfers on the same page but now they are humming and can make a run in this tourney. Baylor has limped into this tournament losing 5 of their last 8 games since losing starting center Ojianwuna for the season to an injury. Two of those three wins came by 3 points. In their lone meeting this season @ Baylor, the Bears won by 8 points but made 12 more FT’s and only had 4 turnovers in the game. With those numbers they should have handled KSU easily by double digits but they never led that game by more than 9 points (KSU had a 12 point lead at one point). The Bears continue to be overvalued by the markets with an 0-6-2 ATS run and a spread record of 9-18-2 on the season. Too many points here as we give Kansas State a decent shot at winning this game outright.