Gonzaga vs Pacific Prediction, College Basketball Game Preview

Gonzaga vs Pacific prediction, college basketball game preview, how to watch, lines, and why each team might – or might not – win on Thursday.

Gonzaga vs Pacific prediction, college basketball game preview, how to watch: Thursday, February 10


Gonzaga vs Pacific How To Watch

Date: Thursday, February 10
Game Time: 9:00 ET
Venue: McCarthey Athletic Center, Spokane, WA
How To Watch: CBS Sports Network
Record: Pacific (7-16), Gonzaga (19-2)
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Why Pacific Will Win

Can the Tigers bring the same performance they came up with against USC?

They lost to the Trojans 74-68, but they started great, shot well from the inside, and they held on as long as possible before the talent took over and the shots started dropping.

To have any prayer, Pacific has to get Gonzaga to screw up. It only forced 11 turnovers against USC, but it might be able to make things interesting if it can generate enough easy points come close to keeping up.

The threes have to come early and often. The Tigers are 5-2 when hitting eight or more threes. Gonzaga has allowed eight or more threes eight times, but …

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Why Gonzaga Will Win

The offense continues to be unstoppable.

It’s dropping 90 a game lately like it was nothing, the threes are falling, and no one is able to keep up.

Pacific just doesn’t score enough. It doesn’t have the ability to hit from three – it’s hasn’t hit close to 30% from the outside over the las three games – and it’s struggling to get to 70 points. It was able to do it in a win over Pepperdine, but it took 23 made free throws to get there.

Worse yet, the Tigers aren’t doing enough defensively. Teams are hitting 45% from the field on a consistent basis, and Gonzaga should blow past 55% if the threes are dropping.

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What’s Going To Happen

Pacific has a way of battling with teams, and then losing. It might not get obliterated in the first ten minutes, but that tidal wave of Gonzaga points will be coming soon.

For all of Pacific’s issues, only one team – Santa Clara – has been able to score more than 80 points against it. That’s about to change.

Pacific vs Gonzaga Prediction, Lines

Gonzaga 92, Pacific 60
Line: Gonzaga -33, o/u: 155
ATS Confidence out of 5: 2

Must See Rating: 2

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Gonzaga vs Pacific Prediction, College Basketball Game Preview

Gonzaga Bulldogs vs Pacific Tigers prediction and college basketball game preview.

Gonzaga Bulldogs vs Pacific Tigers prediction and college basketball game preview.


Gonzaga vs Pacific Broadcast

Date: Thursday, February 4
Game Time: 9:00 ET
Venue: Alex G Spanos Center, Stockton, CA
Network: CBS Sports Network

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Why Gonzaga Will Win

We already did this a few weeks ago, and it wasn’t pretty.

Pacific went to Gonzaga and was obliterated from the tip in a 95-49 squeaker.  Gonzaga hasn’t slowed down since – or before.

Besides being great at basketball, how is the No. 1 team in the country doing it? The Bulldogs are hitting everything form the field stemming from assist after assist, and they’re able to dominate on the boards – they came up with 48 rebounds in the first meeting.

Pacific is really, really bad from the field, awful from three, and it can’t move the ball around, but …

Why Pacific Will Win

So how do the Tigers possibly pull this off?

They don’t turn the ball over and they don’t make a whole lot of big mistakes, but that’s not going to be nearly enough. Yes, they’re bad from the field – hitting just 40% – but that doesn’t mean they can’t get hot.

They couldn’t do anything right against Gonzaga, but they aren’t always miserable at coming up with assists – they generated a grand total of three in the first meeting – have to slow things down as much as possible, and can’t give up easy points.

Easy peasy. It’ll also help if …

What’s Going To Happen

Gonzaga has to be really, really off.

For what it’s worth, Pacific is 4-0 at home and this is the first game in Alex G. Spanos in almost a month.

It won’t matter. Gonzaga is able to find ways to score in a variety of ways, Pacific’s offense won’t do enough from three to get back in the game, and it’ll be another easy win for the No. 1 team. It won’t be as brutal as the first one, but it’ll be rough.

Gonzaga vs Pacific Prediction, Line

Gonzaga 90, Pacific 66
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Gonzaga -23.5, o/u: 152
ATS Confidence out of 5: 1.5

Must See Rating: 2

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Gonzaga Bulldogs vs Pacific Tigers prediction and college basketball game preview.

Gonzaga Bulldogs vs Pacific Tigers prediction and college basketball game preview.


Gonzaga vs Pacific Broadcast

Date: Saturday, January 23
Game Time: 10:00 ET
Venue: McCarthey Athletic Center, Spokane, WA
Network: ATSN

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Why Pacific Will Win

The Tigers are just good enough at not screwing up to potentially make this a wee bit of a fight.

They have a good presence defensively – they come up with a slew of blocks – and they don’t turn the ball over and give up a whole lot of easy points. Gonzaga scores on everyone, but Pacific has the ability to clamp down for stretches – the defense is solid.

On the other side, Gonzaga might be doing a whole lot of things right, but they give up a ton of threes and the defense isn’t quite as locked down as it should be, but …

Why Gonzaga Will Win

The Bulldogs aren’t perfect, but they do enough well to pull through game after game with ease. Why? They pass incredibly well and they always seem to create easy points.

They don’t give up the mistakes Pacific will need to have any sort of a prayer, and they’re able to step up offensively against everyone.

You don’t hang 98 on Virginia and 99 against Iowa without doing something right.

What’s Going To Happen

Pacific doesn’t shoot well enough from the outside – or anywhere – to keep up. It can’t rebound with the Bulldogs, it doesn’t move its offense around at all, and it doesn’t come up with enough turnovers.

Gonzaga vs Pacific Prediction, Line

Gonzaga 88, Pacific 63
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Gonzaga -26.5, o/u: 150
ATS Confidence out of 5: 2.5

Must See Rating: 2

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