Both teams had lowish totals to start the year and the books have raised them up quite a bit for this one. I find when you have two high scoring teams (early in the season) face off you expect them to both go off but the opposite happens. Total opened at 151 so it has moved a few pts. Pepperdine is small and I don't see them putting up anywhere near the 91 pts they had last game. This helps UCLA both ways since UCLA's defense hasn't looked great. UCLA also played two cupcake teams (Cal Poly and Monmouth with shit kenpom rankings) and Pepperdine is at least cracking the top 90. If I had to pick a side I'd lean towards UCLA. 80-65 UCLA is my prediction.