UCLA Bruins vs Arizona Wildcats NCAAB Lines
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UCLA vs. Arizona NCAAB Matchup
Date/Time: Thursday, January 27, 9 PM ET
Venue: McKale Center, Tucson, AZ
Broadcast: ESPN2
UCLA Bruins vs. Arizona Wildcats Betting Lines from JustBet.com
Money Line: OFF
Spread: Arizona -8
Over/Under: 142
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UCLA Bruins vs. Arizona Wildcats Preview
Tonight in the desert in a Pac 10 match up the Arizona Wildcats (16-4) host a hot UCLA Bruins (13-6) squad. NCAA lines have Arizona as 8-point favorites in this game with a total of 142.
The Bruins have won 4-straight Pac 10 games and the winner of tonight’s contest will take over sole possession of 2nd place in the conference. The Wildcats have won 4 of their last 5 games and they have yet to lose a conference game at home this season.
In their last games both teams played on Saturday with Arizona beating Washington State 65-63 and ULCA beating Stanford 68-57.
This season the Wildcats have been a better betting team going 10-8 ATS while the Bruins are at 8-10-1 ATS. In the last 7 games between these 2 Pac 10 rivals the home team has covered the spread 5 times.
Arizona has yet to lose at home this season and one of the main reasons they have been winning in their house is that they are shooting 40% from 3-point range. Leading scorer F Derrick Williams (19.7 ppg) has only taken 27 3-point bombs, but he has hit 19 of them and if the Bruins can shut him down on offense they will be in good shape since he is the only player for the Wildcats that is averaging in double figures.
The frontcourt trio of UCLA in Reeves Nelson, Tyler Honeycutt, and Joshua Smith are each averaging around 7 boards per game and the Wildcats cannot let these guys dominate the glass tonight.
UCLA has a good inside-outside game with F’s Nelson and Honeycutt each averaging around 14 ppg and G’s Malcolm Lee and Lazeric Jones each averaging around 12 ppg, so the Wildcats will have to play a good all-around defensive game. In their 11 home games this season the Wildcats have held opponents to 27% shooting from 3-point land.
Arizona is not a high scoring team, but they are solid on defense. They will hold the Bruins in check tonight, but this game will be close and UCLA will cover the 8-point spread.
Betting Trends
UCLA is 3-7 ATS in their last 10 road games vs. a team with a home winning percentage of more than 60% and Arizona is 1-5 ATS in their last 6 games and 0-5 ATS in their last 5 home games.
Pick: UCLA +8
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