The Oregon Ducks and the Arizona Wildcats meet in college basketball action from the McKale Center on Saturday night.
The Oregon Ducks will try to rebound from an 81-57 beatdown loss to Arizona State last time out. Will Richardson leads the Ducks in scoring and assists with 15 PPG and 3.5 APG while Jacob Young has 11 PPG with 2.7 RPG and 2.6 APG and De’Vion Harmon has 10.8 PPG to cap off the group of double-digit scorers for Oregon so far this season. Quincy Guerrier has 8.9 PPG with 5.2 RPG while N’Faly Dante has a team-high 5.6 RPG to lead the Ducks on the glass so far this season. As a team, Oregon is averaging 72.1 PPG on 45.7% shooting from the field, 34% from three and 66.7% from the foul line while allowing 67.4 PPG on 42.8% shooting from the field and 31.4% from three this season.
The Arizona Wildcats will look to add to their seven-game winning streak after an 83-69 win over Oregon State last time out. Bennedict Mathurin leads the Wildcats in scoring with 17.2 PPG along with 5.8 RPG while Azuolas Tubelis has 15.2 PPG with 6.6 RPG. Christian Koloko has 12.1 PPG with a team-high 7.4 RPG to lead Arizona on the glass while Kerr Krilsa has 10 PPG with a team-high 4.8 APG to lead the Wildcats in assists and round out the group of double-digit scorers for Arizona so far this season. As a team, Arizona is averaging 84.8 PPG on 48.9% shooting from the field, 33.7% from three and 72.2% from the foul line while allowing 65.2 PPG on 37% shooting from the field and 31.4% from three this season.
Oregon is 0-5 ATS in their last 5 games overall and 0-4 ATS in their last 4 games following an ATS loss while the over is 5-1 in their last 6 games as an underdog. Arizona is 1-4 ATS in their last 5 home games and 5-2 ATS in their last 7 games against a team with a winning record while the under is 6-0 in their last 6 games as a home favorite.
I get the case to be made either way here, but I’m going to lean towards the under. I think this total’s just a bit too high and an overreaction to some of the scoring outputs that Arizona’s put up this season. I could see the Wildcats getting into the 70s here and for Oregon to score into the 60s but for this game to finish around 145. Give me the under here.