Princeton vs Arizona NCAA Tournament odds, tips and betting trends
The No. 2 seed Arizona Wildcats (28-6) will try to defeat the No. 15 seed Princeton Tigers (21-8) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday at Golden 1 Center. Watch this matchup at 4:10 PM on TNT.
The Wildcats are a double-digit favorite against the Tigers when the Wildcats and the Tigers meet. The Wildcats are favored by 14.5 points. The point total for the game is set at 154.
Arizona has gone 17-16-1 against the spread, while Princeton’s ATS record this season is 15-12-0. The Wildcats have an 18-16-0 record hitting the over, while games involving the Tigers have a record of 15-11-1 when it comes to hitting the over. The teams average 158.7 points per game, 4.7 more points than this matchup’s total. Arizona is 6-4 against the spread and 7-3 overall over its last 10 games, while Princeton has gone 7-3 against the spread and 7-3 overall.
Here is everything you need to prepare for Thursday’s college hoops action.
Princeton at Arizona odds, spread and lines
- Spread: Arizona -14.5
- Total: 154
- Moneyline: Arizona -1048, Princeton +675
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Arizona vs. Princeton prediction
Arizona 82, Princeton 67
Moneyline
- Arizona has a 27-5 record in games when it was listed as the moneyline favorite (winning 84.4% of those games).
- The Wildcats have played 10 times as a moneyline favorite with odds of -1048 or shorter, and earned a victory in each game.
- The implied moneyline probability in this matchup gives Arizona a 91.3% chance to win.
- Princeton has entered the game as underdogs six times this season and won four of those games.
- The Tigers have not entered a game this season with longer moneyline odds than +675.
- The implied probability of a win by Princeton based on the moneyline is 12.9%.
Against the spread
- Arizona has put together a 17-16-1 ATS record so far this year.
- Princeton has put together a 15-12-0 record against the spread this season.
- The 82.7 points per game the Wildcats record are 14.1 more points than the Tigers give up (68.6).
- Arizona is 13-12-1 against the spread and 23-3 overall when scoring more than 68.6 points.
- Princeton has a 13-7 record against the spread and an 18-4 record overall when giving up fewer than 82.7 points.
- The Tigers score an average of 76.0 points per game, only 4.5 more points than the 71.5 the Wildcats give up.
- When it scores more than 71.5 points, Princeton is 9-6 against the spread and 13-4 overall.
- Arizona’s record is 12-7-1 against the spread and 19-1 overall when it allows fewer than 76.0 points.
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Over/Under
- The Wildcats’ average implied point total this season is 1.3 fewer points than their implied total in Thursday’s game (82.7 implied points on average compared to 84 implied points in this game).
- This season, Arizona has recorded more than 84 points in 18 games.
- The average implied point total on the season for the Tigers (74.4) is 4.4 more points than the team’s implied total in this matchup (70).
- This year, Princeton has put up more than 70 points 18 times.
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