The BIG 12 Banger is on Texas. Game 736 at 9:30 eastern. The Long horns enter off a tough regular season ending loss to rival Texas Tech. Now they go into the first round against an average West Virginia that rose to the occasion and held off Kansas in their season finale 92-86. The Mountaineers should bounce like a Spalding here tonight. They are just 5-11 vs top 50 teams and it cannot be expected that they will win 2 straight against this caliber on Competition, especially off such a big dog win that sets then up in a first round play against system. Texas has won the last 2 meetings by double digits and is 22-1 vs teams rated 51 or higher in the RPI Scale. Texas is also 8-3 ats off 3+ ats losses. Our Simulation models have Texas as the spread winner here.