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West Virginia sports betting is in full bloom. The Mountain State, one of the earliest adopters of wagering on sports after the fall of PASPA, is now home to both online and retail sports betting. West Virginia sports betting became legal in March 2018, making it the fifth state in history to allow it. The new law also brought West Virginia online sports betting on board. Players in the state can now bet real money on their favorite team online and offline. West virginia sportsbook The Sportsbook is here, and Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races is your 50-yard-line ticket to odds, point spreads and over/unders. Betting on sports has never been easier.

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The No. 18 West Virginia Mountaineers (12-5, 5-3 Big 12) host the No. 22 Kansas Jayhawks (12-6, 6-4) Friday at WVU Coliseum. Tip-off is scheduled for 2 p.m. ET. Below, we analyze the Kansas-West Virginia college basketball odds and lines, with picks and predictions.

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Kansas at West Virginia: Odds, spread and lines

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Money line: Kansas +120 (bet $100 to win $120) | West Virginia -145 (bet $145 to win $100)Against the spread/ATS: Kansas +2.5 (-110) | West Virginia -2.5 (-110)Over/Under: 141.5 (O: -110 | U: -110)

Kansas at West Virginia: Three things to know

The Jayhawks won their last game vs. Kansas State 74-51 but have struggled on the road recently. Kansas has lost four in a row (3-1 ATS) as the visitor, including a 19-point loss to No. 10 Tennessee last Saturday.West Virginia beat Iowa State 76-72 the last time out and is 3-1 overall (2-2 ATS) following a 14-day layoff because of COVID-19 issues. Mountaineers junior F Derek Culver leads West Virginia in player efficiency rating, and he leads the Big XII in rebounds per game.Kansas beat the brakes off of West Virginia 79-65 earlier this season as a 2-point home favorite. The Jayhawks have dominated the Mountaineers since they joined the Big 12 in 2012, winning five in a row and nine of their last 10 meetings (7-3 ATS).

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Kansas at West Virginia: Odds, lines, predictions and picks

Prediction

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West Virginia 71, Kansas 64

Money line (ML)

PASS with a slight lean toward West Virginia (-145) only because this money line is a little more expensive than I'd like to pay.

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Against the spread (ATS)

Neither the market nor BetMGM is being heavily influenced by the first Kansas-West Virginia result. You can tell because the Jayhawks crushed the Mountaineers while laying only 2 points; however, WVU was actually leading at halftime of that game before it got out of hand in the second half.

WVU has been steamed up from a 1.5-point favorite on the opener to the current price. If the bookmakers and/or the market thought these teams weren't evenly matched then Kansas would be favored on the road.

Also, aside from consecutive wins over Texas Tech and WVU in mid-December, Kansas has gotten punched in the mouth when it has stepped up in competition.

The Jayhawks' last four losses have come against ranked competition on the road and the only cover was against No. 2 Baylor. Kansas covered by only a half-point by scoring seven points in the final 63 seconds to sneak in the backdoor.

TAKE WEST VIRGINIA -2.5 (-110) for 1 unit.

Over/Under (O/U)

I lean UNDER 141.5 (-110) for a half-unit because Kansas was lights out from three in the first game between these two and I think the Jayhawks' 3-point shooting will regress back to their regular-season average in the second game.

Plus, since the beginning of last season, West Virginia is 8-13-1 O/U as a home favorite.

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West Virginia officially has sports betting, including online wagering, in 2020.

Mountaineer Sportsbook West Virginia

FanDuel Sportsbook is live with its sports betting app in West Virginia as of August 2019. DraftKings Sportsbook joined FanDuel a few days later and is live as well, giving West Virginians access to two of the most popular sportsbooks outside of Nevada. Most recently, BetMGM joined the market.

West Virginia Sports Betting App

West Virginia Sportsbook App

The Mountain State became the fifth in the US to offer legal sports betting in August 2018, following New Jersey, Delaware, Mississippi, and Nevada. It became the third with legal online sports betting as of December 2018, though it endured a six-month outage in 2019 before finally returning to service.

West Virginia Sports Betting in 2021

Casino	Operator	Online / Mobile	Retail offered?
Hollywood Casino at Charles Town	DraftKings Sportsbook	Live as of Aug. 2019	Yes
The Greenbrier (private)	FanDuel Sportsbook	Live as of Aug. 2019	Yes
The Greenbrier (private)	BetMGM Sportsbook	Live as of Jan. 2020	No
Mardi Gras	IGT	Suspended since March 2019	Yes
Wheeling Island	IGT	Suspended since March 2019	Yes
Mountaineer Casino	William Hill	Not yet	Yes

Legal sports betting options in West Virginia

Draftkings Sportsbook West Virginia

If you want to bet on sports in West Virginia, you have a variety of options:

WV sports betting apps

There are currently three online sportsbooks available in the state:

Charlestown West Virginia Sportsbook

• DraftKings Sportsbook: One of the top betting options in several states, the daily fantasy sports and sportsbook offers a full sports betting app in West Virginia.
• FanDuel Sportsbook: Another DFS company and a top competitor of DraftKings, FanDuel is the leading sportsbook brand across the country right now in terms of amount wagered.
• BetMGM Sportsbook: The app from MGM Resorts International, which operates casinos and sportsbooks around the country, is now live in the state.

Sportsbooks at WV casinos

There are five casinos that can offer WV sports wagering at retail locations

• Hollywood Casino was the first to go live and is the online partner of DraftKings.
• FanDuel is operating the sportsbook at the private resort, The Greenbrier.
• Mountaineer Casino in New Cumberland launched a sportsbook in 2019, but does not have an online platform.
• Mardi Gras Casino and Wheeling Island launched their retail sportsbooks in 2018. They also launched a now-defunct app available via BetLucky.com. After being shuttered for most of 2019, the two properties finally reopened their betting windows in 2020.

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