The UCLA Bruins and the Arizona Wildcats meet in college basketball action from the T-Mobile Arena on Saturday in the Pac-12 conference championship game. Let’s dive into the odds, injuries, matchup history and make a prediction for this game.
Injuries
Arizona comes into the Pac-12 championship game with a clean injury report while UCLA has Jaylen Clark listed as out for the season with an achilles injury and Evan Manjikian is out indefinitely with an arm injury.
Matchup History
UCLA’s 82-73 win over the Wildcats back on March 4th, 2023, snapped Arizona’s three-game head-to-head win streak against the Wildcats.
Pick
I’m backing UCLA here. Arizona looked mighty impressive in the win over Arizona State, but UCLA woke up in a big way the last time these two teams met and UCLA just looks motivated and determined to finish the job. Arizona looked like they were struggling at times to put away Arizona State, and Stanford kind of lingered around in that game a lot more than I’d like them to if I’m going to feel comfortable backing Arizona here. I’ll side with UCLA to win this one and hoist the conference tournament trophy.