College Basketball Picks

A pair of good ACC college basketball teams meet up Tuesday at the KFC Yum Center when the +1.5 underdog Florida State Seminoles visit the Louisville Cardinals. Both teams only have two losses and are in a heated race for position in the conference tournament.

With the Gonzaga Bulldogs averaging 96 points per game and the Saint Mary’s gaels having not scored more than 64 points in any of their last five contests, this game could get ugly! Check out Dan’s preview and point spread prediction!

Villanova lost several key players from last year’s national champions, but the Wildcats are still a very talented and experienced team. Villanova’s inside-outside attack starts with senior forward Eric Paschall, who showed exactly why he’s on the watch list for the Naismith Player of the Year honors in the opener against Morgan State with 27 points. At 6-foot-8, the forward isn’t the tallest for an interior player, but his 255-pound frame more than makes up for it and allows him to push opponents around inside. Will he be the force Villanova needs to cover the sportsbook’s line of -24? DJ has your college basketball pick!

Auburn’s attack ran through two players against South Alabama: guard Jared Harper and forward Chuma Okeke. Both players scored 20 points in the season opener, and both shot 60 percent from beyond the 3-point arc in the victory. Those kinds of numbers would be devastating against Washington given the kind of game the Huskies like to play. But Washington isn’t South Bama so what can we expect from the Auburn guards is game 2? DJ has your college basketball pick.

Coach K punted on defense last season in favor of playing the fabled 2-3 zone, and he might be forced to do so again this season with their three best players essentially playing the same position. Coach Cal has reloaded his roster with talented freshmen who will probably take their lumps on defense, and as long as Duke’s athletes have space to operate, we might be in for more alley-oops in this game than all of Duke’s 1994 season games combined. Can Duke alley-oop its way to a cover as a +2 underdog at the majority of betting sites? Kyle cash has your basketball pick.