UC San Diego vs. UC Irvine Pick – Basketball Predictions & Odds 2/2/23

The UC-Irvine Anteaters and the UC-San Diego Tritons meet in college basketball action from the LionTree Arena on Thursday night. Let’s dive into the odds, injuries, matchup history and make a prediction for this game.

Odds

UC-Irvine is a 7.5-point road favorite coming into this game with a ML price of -333. The total for this game is set at 140.5 points.

Injuries

For UC-Irvine, Bent Leuchten is out indefinitely with a knee injury while UC-San Diego has a clean injury report coming into this game.

Matchup History

UC-Irvine’s 56-50 win over UC-San Diego back on February 15^th, 2022, made the Anteaters 5-0 in all-time meetings with the Tritons.

Trends

UC-Irvine is 3-10 ATS in their last 13 Thursday games and 1-4 ATS in their last 5 road games against a team with a losing home record while the under is 7-1 in their last 8 games following a win by 20 or more points. UC-San Diego is 4-0 ATS in their last 4 games overall and 5-1 ATS in their last 6 games following an ATS win while the over is 4-1 in their last 5 games overall.

Pick

I’m sticking with UC-Irvine here. The Anteaters have earned the respect of being road favorites in this game as they’re simply the better team here. UC-San Diego’s simply had too many issues on the defensive end to feel good about backing them here and I just think this is a spot where the Anteaters are too much for the Tritons to handle. Give me UC-Irvine laying the points on the road here.