College Basketball Odds: California at No. 1 Kansas

Kansas is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home. (AP Images)

The Cal basketball team was considered a preseason Pac-10 favorite yet has been uneven in the early part of this season, but all that will be forgotten if the Bears can pull a huge upset of No. 1 Kansas on Tuesday night – the Jayhawks are 13-point favorites on Bodog’s college basketball odds.

Cal (6-3, 4-4 ATS) hasn’t beaten a top-ranked team since 1994 and is 2-23 all-time against No. 1 teams. The Bears have never beaten a top-ranked team in a true road game, with their last away from home win coming way back in the 1960 NCAA Final Four.

Good luck tonight as Kansas (10-0, 4-3 ATS) has a national-best 48-game home winning streak and has won a ridiculous 226 of its past 238 games at Allen Fieldhouse. KU hasn’t been challenged at home this year, with Saturday’s 15-point win over Michigan being the only home victory by less than 25 points. Overall, seven of Kansas’ 10 victories this season have been by 25 or more points with six of those by 30 points or more.

KU, one of eight unbeaten teams left in the country, leads the Big 12 in scoring (88.8 ppg, No. 2 in nation), scoring margin (+30.5, No. 1 in nation), assists (19.3 apg), blocked shots (7.3) and assist-to-turnover ratio (1.6).

Cal is coming off its two best wins of the season, over Iowa State and Pacific, and the Bears have key forward Theo Robertson back after he missed six games with an injury – not coincidentally, the team lost three of the six games he missed. Robertson was fourth in the nation in 3-point shooting last season and is the school’s career percentage leader.

The only chance Cal has tonight, when making that college basketball bet at Bodog, is to shoot incredibly well from behind the arc. The Bears led the nation in 3-point shooting in 2008-09 but are just 66th so far this season.

Get all your NCAA basketball betting lines at Bodog!