[JBasketballjr]

BYU @ Pacific
Recommendation: BYU -9
Huge mismatch here as BYU heads to take on Pacific this evening. We’ve cashed a couple of tickets with BYU already, and I expect another easy winner here tonight. This game has blowout written all over it. The Cougars have one 4 of their last 5 games and that one loss came to Pepperdine. BYU didn’t take the Waves as seriously as they should have and dropped a conference game at home because of it. They won’t be overlooking any teams for a while after that and Pacific isn’t close to having the personnel to hang around here.
The Cougars are one of the top scoring teams in the country at 83.8 points per game and Tyler Haws has been a monster, putting up over 22 points per night. BYU gets the job done by shooting 3’s, and they can really put up points in a hurry. They’re going to take the crowd out of the game and run up and down the floor. They’re also undefeated on the road this season and Pacific isn’t exactly a tough venue to play at.
The Tigers are slumping right now and it’s a bad time to not be on your game. They’ve lost 4 of their last 5 and are only putting up 65.8 points per contest. That alone is a huge discrepancy and might just be the deciding factor for the spread. It’s likely that Pacific will give up when things start to go south for them. They’re also not a particularly deep team, so stamina could be an issue with how much BYU is going to run. Blowout all the way here. Take BYU.

[THam12]