A Sweet 16 battle features the No. 1 seed Arizona Wildcats (33-3) and the No. 5 seed Houston Cougars (31-6) meeting with a place in the South Regional Region bracket final on the line on Thursday at AT&T Center. Arizona is a 2-point favorite in the NCAA Tournament matchup, which starts at 9:59 PM on TBS.
Arizona has a 21-17-1 record against the spread this season compared to Houston, who is 27-12-0 ATS. In terms of going over the point total, games involving the Wildcats are 24-14-1 and the Cougars are 17-23-0. The two teams score 158.3 points per game, 13.3 more points than this matchup’s total. Over the past 10 contests, Arizona is 4-6-0 against the spread and 10-0 overall while Houston has gone 9-1-0 against the spread and 9-1 overall.
Before this matchup, here is everything you need to get ready for Thursday’s college hoops action.
Houston at Arizona odds, spread and lines
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- Spread: Arizona -2
- Total: 145
- Moneyline: Arizona -133, Houston +110
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Houston at Arizona odds, spread, & more
Moneyline
- The Wildcats have been the moneyline favorite 37 total times this season. They’ve gone 35-2 in those games.
- Arizona has a 34-2 record (winning 94.4% of its games) when it has played as a moneyline favorite of -133 or shorter.
- The Wildcats have an implied moneyline win probability of 57.1% in this matchup.
- The Cougars lost the only game they’ve played as the underdog this season.
- Houston has been at least a +110 moneyline underdog two times this season, and lost all of those games.
- Sportsbooks have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Cougars have a 47.6% chance to win.
Against the spread
- The Wildcats average 27.2 more points per game (84.6) than the Cougars give up (57.4).
- Arizona has an 18-12-1 record against the spread and a 28-3 record overall when putting up more than 57.4 points.
- Houston has a 19-11 record against the spread and a 26-5 record overall when giving up fewer than 84.6 points.
- The Cougars average 5.8 more points per game (73.7) than the Wildcats give up (67.9).
- Houston is 17-7 against the spread and 22-2 overall when it scores more than 67.9 points.
- Arizona has an ATS record of 15-6 and a 21-0 record overall when its opponents score fewer than 73.7 points.
- The Wildcats have out-scored their opponents by a total of 601 points this season (16.7 points per game on average), and the Cougars have put up 603 more points than their opponents on the year (16.3 per game).
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Over/Under
- The Wildcats’ average implied point total this season is 7.7 more points than their implied total in Thursday’s game (81.7 implied points on average compared to 74 implied points in this game).
- So far this season, Arizona has recorded more than 74 points in 33 games.
- The 73.1-point average implied total on the season for the Cougars is equal to the team’s implied total in this matchup.
- This season, Houston has scored more than 72 points in 24 games.
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How to watch Arizona vs. Houston
- Game Day: Thursday, March 24, 2022
- Game Time: 9:59 PM ET
- Live Stream: Hulu
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