Who’s Taking part in
Pacific Tigers @ Colorado Buffaloes
Present Data: Pacific 5-4, Colorado 5-2
How To Watch
What to Know
If the oddsmakers’ predictions maintain true, the close to future appears to be like brilliant for Colorado. They’ll look to defend their dwelling courtroom on Monday towards the Pacific Tigers at 9:00 p.m. ET at CU Occasions Middle. The timing is bound within the Buffaloes’ favor because the staff sits on seven straight wins at dwelling (relationship again to final season) whereas the Tigers have been banged up by 16 consecutive losses on the highway additionally relationship again to final season.
Colorado is headed into the contest having simply suffered their greatest defeat since January 4th on Wednesday. They had been utterly outmatched by Iowa State on the highway and fell 99-71.
The shedding aspect was boosted by Julian Hammond III, who went 6 for 11 en route to twenty factors plus two steals. He’s trending in the suitable route contemplating he is improved his level manufacturing for 3 straight video games. The staff additionally received some assist courtesy of Andrej Jakimovski, who had 18 factors.
In the meantime, Pacific earned a 64-55 win over CS Fullerton on Saturday.
Lamar Washington was the offensive standout of the recreation as he went 5 for 8 en path to 17 factors plus seven assists. One other participant making a distinction was Jazz Gardner, who virtually dropped a double-double on 9 factors and 11 rebounds.
Colorado’s loss dropped their document right down to 5-2. As for Pacific, they now have a successful document of 5-4.
Keep watch over the arc in Monday’s matchup: Colorado has been dynamite from deep this season, having made 39.7% of their threes per recreation. It is a totally different story for Pacific, although, as they’ve solely made 28.7% of their threes this season. Given Colorado’s sizable benefit in that space, Pacific might want to discover a approach to shut that hole.
Odds
Colorado is an enormous 16.5-point favourite towards Pacific, in line with the most recent college basketball odds.
The oddsmakers had been proper according to the betting neighborhood on this one, as the sport opened as a 16.5-point unfold, and stayed proper there.
The over/beneath is 144.5 factors.
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