Utah vs Arizona State Prediction 3/1/25 College Basketball Picks Today

The Arizona State Sun Devils and the Utah Utes meet Saturday in college basketball action from Jon M. Huntsman Center. Here’s a Utah vs Arizona State prediction. We will look at this from a betting perspective and determine the best Utah vs Arizona State pick.

Arizona State Sun Devils Betting Preview

The Sun Devils started out the year on a pretty nice clip, but they’ve struggled since early January. Arizona State went 10-3 over their first 13 outings, beating Idaho State, Santa Clara, Grand Canyon, St. Thomas MN, Cal Poly, New Mexico, Saint Mary’s, San Diego, UMass and Colorado in that time. The Sun Devils would go just 2-5 over the next seven with wins over West Virginia and Colorado among losses to Kansas, Baylor, UCF, Cincinnati and Iowa State. Another losing streak began from there versus Arizona, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, TCU and Houston, but was stopped by a win over Kansas State. That would give the Sun Devils a 13-14 overall record across their first 27 games this season.

In their Wednesday matchup with BYU, Arizona State was down by 10 points at halftime. The Sun Devils kept the pace on a 44-44 run from there but ended up losing 91-81 in the end. Basheer Jihad topped the team in the defeat with 19 points and four rebounds.

Utah Utes Betting Preview

Over on the Utes’ side, they’re doing a bit better record-wise but they’ve also had a pretty choppy run overall. Utah kicked things off with an 8-2 run featuring wins over Alcorn State, Central Arkansas, Queens U, Utah Tech, MS Valley State, Eastern Washington, Radford and Florida A&M. A 3-6 stretch came next with wins over Oklahoma State, TCU and BYU among losses to Iowa, Baylor, Texas Tech, Iowa State, Houston and Baylor again. The next eight were a 4-4 run with wins versus Cincinnati, Colorado, Kansas and Kansas State among losses to Oklahoma State, West Virginia, Cincinnati and UCF in that time. In total across 27 games that would give the Utes a 15-12 overall record.

Matched up against Arizona on Wednesday, the Utes were down 46-32 going into the second half. Utah was outscored 37-34 the rest of the way, finishing off an 83-66 loss in the end. The Utes’ leading starter was Ezra Ausar with 18 points, five rebounds and one steal in 37 minutes on the floor. Gabe Madsen added 10 points with seven assists, three rebounds and two steals. Keanu Dawes was the team’s leading bench contributor on 18 points with 10 rebounds, one assist and one block in 26 minutes of work. Lawson Lovering chipped in with six points, four assists and 10 rebounds in 29 minutes as well.

Why the Utah Utes will win

• The home team has won each of Utah’s last nine games.
• Arizona State has lost seven of its last eight games.
• The home team has won the first half in eight of Utah’s last nine games.

Why the Arizona State Sun Devils will win

• Utah has lost eight of its last nine day games.
• The road team has won each of Arizona State’s last four games.
• The road team has won the first half in eight of Arizona State’s last nine games.

Utah vs Arizona State Prediction

I’ll lean toward Utah, but there’s not a lot to get excited about here with both teams struggling lately. The Utes were blitzed on the road versus a good Arizona team in their last game, posting just 33.9 percent shooting from the field with a 45-39 rebounding deficit. Utah also notched 12 turnovers for 19 Wildcats points, but did hold Arizona to a modest 41.3 percent shooting on the other side. The Utes have now lost consecutive games, giving up a combined 159 points in that pair. The good news for Utah is that they’re still scoring well lately with 72 or more points in four of the five games during this current 2-3 run.

As for Arizona State, they shot well (47.4 percent) and had just nine turnovers in their latest loss at home to BYU. Trouble is, the Sun Devils gave up 54.8 percent shooting from the field and 50 percent (17-of-34) from 3-point range while getting outmuscled on the boards 36-30. This matchup could go a lot of different ways, but I’m leaning slightly toward Utah at home.