Texas Tech vs. West Virginia prediction: Why Texas Tech is favored to win men's college basketball matchup [2/8/2026]

Men's college basketball action continues on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET as the favored Texas Tech squares off with West Virginia in men's college basketball action at Hope Coliseum.

Based on updated simulations, Dimers' advanced college basketball model predicts Texas Tech as the most likely winner of the Texas Tech vs. West Virginia game.

This article offers a closer look at Sunday's matchup, including an expanded look at the predicted score, best bets and picks.

Texas Tech vs. West Virginia prediction: Who will win and cover?

Using trusted machine learning and data, we have simulated the outcome of Sunday's NCAA basketball matchup between Texas Tech and West Virginia 10,000 times as part of our men's college basketball predictions coverage.

Our independent predictive model currently gives Texas Tech a 68% chance of beating West Virginia. Our predicted final score has Texas Tech winning 71-66.

According to our model, the bookmakers have got it right, and Texas Tech and West Virginia each have a 50% chance of covering the spread, while the over/under total of 136.5 points has a 52% chance of going over.

Texas Tech vs. West Virginia odds

We have researched the best men's college basketball odds in America for this game, which are listed here:

All odds are correct at the time of publication and are subject to change.

Texas Tech vs. West Virginia picks and best bet

After matching our probabilities against the best available odds, we can reveal our picks for each of the major markets. Plus, find our best bet for the game below: