The Washington Huskies and the Arizona Wildcats meet in college basketball action from the McKale Center on Saturday afternoon.
The Washington Huskies will try to bounce back from an 80-72 loss to Arizona State last time out. Quade Green leads the Wildcats in scoring and assists with 14.7 PPG and 3.5 APG while Marcus Tsohonis has 10.5 PPG and Jamal Bey ha 10 PPG with 3.5 RPG to make up the trio of double-digit scorers for Washington so far this season. Nate Roberts has a team-high 5.9 RPG while Erik Stevenson has 9 PPG for the Huskies this season. As a team, Washington is averaging 66.3 PPG on 41.6% shooting from the field, 33.1% from 3-point range and 70% from the foul line while allowing 76.6 PPG on 45.3% shooting from the field and 34.3% from 3-point range this season.
The Arizona Wildcats will look to build off of a 69-53 win over Washington State last time out. James Akinjo leads the Wildcats in scoring and assists with 15 PPG and 5.3 APG while Azuolas Tubelis has 12 PPG with a team-high 6.9 RPG while Bennedict Mathurin has 10.9 PPG with 4.3 RPG to make up the group of double-digit scorers up to this point in the season while Jordan Brown has 9.9 PPG with 5.4 RPG as well this season. As a team, Arizona is averaging 75.7 PPG on 45.1% shooting from the field, 37.9% from 3-point range and 72.2% from the foul line while allowing 67.9 PPG on 42.6% shooting from the field and 33.5% from 3-point range this season.
Washington is 6-15 ATS in their last 21 road games and 9-23 ATS in their last 32 games overall while the under is 5-0 in their last 5 games following a loss. 2-5 ATS in their last 7 home games and 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games as a favorite while the under is 5-0 in their last 5 games following a win. The road team is 4-1 ATS in the last 5 meetings between these two teams.
This feels like a ton of points considering that Arizona hasn’t been overly convincing lately and the Huskies just got a cover against Arizona State. However, the Wildcats continue to get blasted more often than not on the road and you have to imagine that Arizona will look to put the boots to whoever’s in front of them as there’s not many chances left to do so. I think This is a spot where Arizona just shows up and shows off so I’ll lay it with the Wildcats here.