The No. 2 seed Villanova Wildcats (24-7, 16-4 Big East) are favored by 2.5 points in their Big East Tournament matchup against the No. 3 seed UConn Huskies (23-8, 13-6 Big East) on Friday at Madison Square Garden, starting at 9:00 PM. The winner will move one step closer to earning an automatic spot in the NCAA Tournament bracket.
Rankings courtesy of the Ferris Mowers Coaches Poll powered by USA TODAY Sports.
Villanova has compiled a 14-14-2 record against the spread this season, while UConn is 11-17-1. In terms of going over the point total, games involving the Wildcats are 16-14-0 and the Huskies are 17-12-0. The teams score 149.2 points per game, 17.7 more points than this matchup’s total. In the past 10 contests, Villanova is 3-5-2 against the spread and 9-1 overall while UConn has gone 2-7-1 against the spread and 7-3 overall.
Here’s everything you need to get ready for Friday’s college hoops action in Big East play.
UConn at Villanova odds, spread and lines
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- Spread: Villanova -2.5
- Total: 131.5
- Moneyline: Villanova -141, UConn +118
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UConn at Villanova odds, spread, & more
Prediction
Villanova 71, UConn 68
Moneyline
- The Wildcats have been the moneyline favorite 25 total times this season. They’ve gone 22-3 in those games.
- Villanova has a 21-3 record (winning 87.5% of its games) when it has played as a moneyline favorite of -141 or shorter.
- The Wildcats have an implied moneyline win probability of 58.5% in this contest.
- This season, the Huskies have been listed as the underdog in four games and failed to win any of those contests.
- UConn has been at least a +118 moneyline underdog three times this season, and lost all of those games.
- The sportsbooks’ moneyline implies a 45.9% chance of a victory for the Huskies.
Against the spread
- The Wildcats score 73.5 points per game, 8.3 more points than the 65.2 the Huskies give up.
- Villanova has a 13-10-2 record against the spread and a 22-4 record overall when putting up more than 65.2 points.
- UConn is 9-13-1 against the spread and 19-5 overall when allowing fewer than 73.5 points.
- The Huskies score an average of 75.7 points per game, 12 more points than the 63.7 the Wildcats give up to opponents.
- UConn is 11-10-1 against the spread and 20-3 overall when it scores more than 63.7 points.
- Villanova is 13-8-2 against the spread and 21-3 overall when it gives up fewer than 75.7 points.
- The Wildcats have totaled 306 more points than their opponents this season (9.8 per game on average), and the Huskies have scored 324 more points than their opponents (10.5 per game).
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Over/Under
- The Wildcats have an average implied point total equal to their implied total in Friday’s game (67).
- So far this season, Villanova has outscored its implied point total for this matchup (67) 25 times.
- The average implied point total on the season for the Huskies (75.8) is 10.8 more points than the team’s implied total in this matchup (65).
- So far this season, UConn has outscored its implied point total for this matchup (65) 22 times.
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