College Basketball Odds: Pittsburgh vs West Virginia Lines

ESPN will feature two top 25-games on Monday evening as the #4 Pittsburgh Panthers travel to take on the West Virginia Mountaineers with a scheduled start time of 7:00pm EST. Following the Big East battle in college basketball odds between Pittsburgh vs West Virginia, ESPN will also feature a Big 12 battle when #15 Missouri vs #2 Kansas tips-off at 9:00pm EST. Both prime time games can be seen on ESPN, online at ESPN3.com or on ESPN Mobile TV. Online sportsbooks have opened with the Mountaineers as a 1-point favorite in college basketball lines vs the Panthers for Monday’s game.

Sportsbooks also favor West Virginia at WVU Coliseum -120 in money line college basketball odds vs Pittsburgh EV for tonight’s game on ESPN. The Panthers head will head into the “Backyard Brawl” as underdogs when they face the Mountaineers on Monday after two straight wins vs Rutgers and Cincinnati. Pittsburgh easily took down the Bearcats 71-59 to win by 12-points and cover the spread as 9.5-point favorites in college basketball lines to go 8-8 ATS for the season. Pittsburgh is currently a top five ranked team but has had miserable performances at West Virginia only winning 8-times in their last 32 match-ups at WVU Coliseum but has gone 5-0 recently when playing on the road.

The Mountaineers will be trying to get back into the top 25 after falling to the #12 Villanova Wildcats last Saturday. West Virginia went on the road looking to take down a top ranked team but instead fell apart losing by 16-points and didn’t even come close to covering the spread in college basketball odds as 4.5-point underdogs to go 8-10 ATS for the season. Casey Mitchell had been leading the Panthers with an average of 15.7-points per game but came off the bench vs the Wildcats and was held scoreless in his first nine minutes. The rest of the squad couldn’t support Mitchell’s poor shooting and responded by missing 7-of-12 from the line and were beat up on the boards being outrebounded 35-29. Bet on West Virginia -1 vs Pittsburgh tonight on ESPN with up to a 30% bonus.

College Basketball Picks: Pittsburgh Panthers +1