College Basketball Picks

Complacency. This is always a concern in conference tournaments when you have a team that knows it’s getting a top seed against a team that thinks it’s already done its job for securing a bid. For Virginia, there’s the question of just how hard they’ll approach this game because they’re the one team among the ACC’s Big 3 that isn’t going to fall off the No. 1 seed. Is the biggest angle on this game purely motivation? DJ breaks down both squads position coming in to the game and offers his prediction.

The Texas Longhorns have their leading scorer Kerwin Roach II back from suspension. During the team’s last 5 games without him they went 1-4 and were 2-3 against the spread. The team’s overall record became a losing one over that span. Will he be the difference maker for a Texas team that sportsbooks opened as 2.5 point favorites?

Few teams faced as tough a stretch down the final five games as the Syracuse Orange, who had three games of five on the road, including one at North Carolina. The two home games were only against Duke and Virginia, both of whom rank in the top five nationally. Is Syracuse prim to air it out as 7 point favorites at home? DJ gives his college basketball prediction!

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Saint Mary’s has a legitimate chance to earn an NCAA bid by either winning or playing tough against Gonzaga in its third opportunity against the Bulldogs. Gonzaga, on the other hand, likely has a No. 1 seed locked up no matter what it does against the Gaels. In a game like this, where one incredible performance can lead to a fantastic reward, it sometimes happens that a lesser team pulls out a fantastic showing and pulls the upset. It hasn’t happened often against Gonzaga, which has claimed 16 of the past 20 titles in the WCC tournament, but it has happened.