Free NCAA Hoops Pick: Utes vs. Wildcats CBB Odds
Looking for Utah Utes vs. Arizona Wildcats NCAA basketball free picks & CBB odds? CBB betting sees the Utes taking on the Wildcats on Thursday January 16 at the McKale Center on the campus of the University of Arizona. Cappers Picks provides complimentary expert handicapping picks on all college basketball matchups all season long so stay tuned for more FREE daily basketball predictions like this Utah Arizona matchup.
2019-2020 NCAA Basketball
(10-5) Utah Utes vs. Arizona Wildcats (11-5)
Date: Thursday January 16
Time: 8:30 PM ET
Venue: McKale Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
CBB Moneyline Odds: TBA
CBB Betting Odds: TBA
CBB Betting Total: TBA
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Utah Utes
Utah shot just thirty-five percent to Colorado’s sixty in Sunday’s 91–52 loss in Boulder.
Sophomore forward Riley Battin led the Utes with just eight points. Timmy Allen, who averages better than twenty on the season had just seven on one-of-eleven shooting.
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Utah isn’t a bad offensive team. It is well inside the top-100 in all sorts of shooting percentages and turnover numbers. It scored 143 points earlier this season against Mississippi Valley State and hit 102 in an overtime win against BYU last month.
It’s lost two in a row, however, and has dropped to just 1–2 in conference play after defeating Oregon State at home in its Pac-12 opener.
Arizona Wildcats
Arizona has also lost two in a row and four out of its last five.
But the Wildcats shouldn’t lose their heads. The losing began with an 84–80 loss to Gonzaga at the McKale Center when the ‘Zags were on their way to becoming the No. 1 team in the country. It is Arizona’s only home loss.
A week after the Gonzaga loss and with no game in-between, Arizona lost by three to St. John’s in San Francisco at the home of the NBA’s Golden State Warriors.
The ‘Cats returned home and squashed Arizona State before going on the road and losing to both Oregon (by one in overtime) and Oregon State (by seventeen).
Nico Mannion shot just three-of-ten for nine points but did add nine assists. His fellow freshmen Zeke Nnaji and Josh Green are putting up big numbers too but the Wildcats go as Mannion does.
The 6’3” guard was born in Italy and lived there in his early years before his family settled in America (his father, Pace, is American and played for the Warriors, Jazz, Nets, Bucks, Pistons and Hawks throughout the 80s before finishing his career in Italy and eventually meeting Nico’s Italian-born mother).
He isn’t a great three-point shooter yet (.333) but he’ll continue to improve. He’s a tremendous ball-handler and passer who averages 6.3 assists to 2.7 turnovers per game. And he can score inside. To this handicapper, he has the look of a freshman capable of leading his team to the Final Four, if he has enough help around him.
He has that in Zeke Nnaji, the 6’11” power forward who fell a rebound shy of his fifth consecutive double-double in the loss to Oregon State. He’s shooting just shy of two-out-of-three from the field on the season.
The talent, which has kept Arizona’s losses close and made its wins big, has the ‘Cats ranked fourth in Sports-Reference’s Simple Rating System, despite the five losses.
CBB Betting Trends:
- UTAH are 10-4 ATS in their last 14 road games.
- Over is 11-5 in UTAH last 16 vs. Pacific-12.
- ARIZ are 3-7 ATS in their last 10 games overall.
- ARIZ are 5-11 ATS in their last 16 vs. Pacific-12.
- Under is 26-12-1 in ARIZ last 39 home games.
Free Utah Utes vs. Arizona Wildcats NCAAB Prediction: Arizona wins, Utah never quite goes away.
Arizona will respond to what has been a tough stretch with a win against a quality opponent at home. That doesn’t mean the ‘Cats are an automatic back.
They will struggle to pull away from Utah in this game and probably never will. This handicapper likes U of A to win this game by about eight or nine.
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