{"id":621727,"date":"2026-02-24T11:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/621727\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T11:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:09:12","slug":"kentucky-vs-south-carolina-prediction-odds-spread-time-2026-college-basketball-picks-from-proven-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/621727\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky vs. South Carolina prediction, odds, spread, time: 2026 college basketball picks from proven model"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kentucky Wildcats<\/a> look to snap a three-game losing streak when they take on the South Carolina Gamecocks<\/a> in an SEC matchup on Tuesday night. Kentucky is coming off a 75-74 loss at Auburn on Saturday, while South Carolina downed Mississippi State 97-89 that same day. The Wildcats (17-10, 8-6 SEC), who are tied for sixth in the conference, are 3-5 on the road this season. The Gamecocks (12-15, 3-11 SEC), who are tied for 13th in the league, are 11-6 on their home floor.<\/p>\n

Tipoff from Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, S.C., is set for 7 p.m. ET. Kentucky leads the all-time series 55-15, including 21-10 at Columbia. Kentucky is a 6.5-point favorite in the latest Kentucky vs. South Carolina odds from DraftKings Sportsbook, while the over\/under for total points scored is 150.5. Before making any South Carolina vs. Kentucky picks,\u00a0check out the men’s college basketball predictions and betting advice from the SportsLine Projection Model<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The SportsLine Projection Model simulates every college basketball game 10,000 times and it entered Week 17 on a sizzling 11-1 run on its top-rated over\/under\u00a0college basketball<\/a>\u00a0picks<\/a>\u00a0dating back to last season, and is on a 20-11 run on top-rated CBB side picks. Anyone following its\u00a0college basketball<\/a>\u00a0betting<\/a>\u00a0advice at\u00a0sportsbooks<\/a>\u00a0and on\u00a0betting apps<\/a>\u00a0could have seen strong returns.<\/p>\n

Now, the model has simulated Kentucky vs. South Carolina<\/a>\u00a010,000 times and just revealed its coveted men’s college basketball picks and betting predictions. You can head to SportsLine now to see the model’s picks<\/a>. Here are several men’s college basketball odds<\/a> and men’s college basketball betting lines for South Carolina vs. Kentucky:<\/p>\n

Kentucky vs. South Carolina spread:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kentucky -6.5 at DraftKings Sportsbook<\/p>\n

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150.5 points<\/p>\n

Kentucky vs. South Carolina money line:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kentucky -307, South Carolina +245<\/p>\n

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See picks at SportsLine<\/a><\/p>\n

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Top Kentucky vs. South Carolina predictions<\/p>\n

SportsLine’s model is going Over on the total (148.5 points). The Over has hit in seven of the past 10 matchups between the schools. The Over has hit in four of the past six Kentucky games and five of the last nine South Carolina games.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The model projects the Wildcats to have three players score 10.3 points or more, including Otega Oweh’s<\/a> projected 21.1 points. The Gamecocks are projected to have three players score 11.8 or more points, led by Meechie Johnson<\/a> Jr., who is projected to score 18.4 points. The model is projecting 155 combined points as the Over clears in nearly 70% of simulations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

How to make South Carolina vs. Kentucky picks<\/p>\n

The model also says one side of the spread hits more than 50% of the time.\u00a0You can only see that pick at SportsLine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So who wins South Carolina vs. Kentucky and which side of the spread hits more than 50% of the time?\u00a0Visit SportsLine now to see which side of the Kentucky vs. South Carolina spread to back, all from the advanced model that has simulated this game 10,000 times<\/a>, and find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kentucky Wildcats look to snap a three-game losing streak when they take on the South Carolina Gamecocks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,59401,59378,81870,81872,81871,3075,231,772,1544,4252],"class_list":{"0":"post-621727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-college-basketball-odds","11":"tag-college-basketball-picks","12":"tag-kentucky-south-carolina-odds","13":"tag-kentucky-south-carolina-picks","14":"tag-kentucky-south-carolina-prediction","15":"tag-kentucky-wildcats","16":"tag-ncaa","17":"tag-ncaa-basketball","18":"tag-ncaab","19":"tag-south-carolina-gamecocks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116125300397656961","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}