{"id":655830,"date":"2026-03-14T20:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T20:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/655830\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T20:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T20:24:17","slug":"houston-vs-arizona-prediction-odds-spread-time-2026-big-12-tournament-picks-from-proven-model-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/655830\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston vs. Arizona prediction, odds, spread, time: 2026 Big 12 Tournament picks from proven model"},"content":{"rendered":"

The top two teams in the Big 12 clash when the second-seeded Houston Cougars<\/a> meet the top-seeded Arizona Wildcats<\/a> in Saturday’s 2026 Big 12 Tournament championship game. Houston advanced to the title game with a 69-47 win over third-seeded Kansas<\/a> in Friday’s semifinals, while Arizona advanced with an 82-80 win over fifth-seeded Iowa State. The Cougars (28-5), who have won five in a row, are looking to win their second consecutive Big 12 Conference Tournament title. The Wildcats (31-2), who have won eight straight, finished runner-up last season after losing 72-64 to Houston in the 2025 title game.<\/p>\n

Tipoff from the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Mo., is set for 6 p.m. ET. Arizona is a 1.5-point favorite in the latest Houston vs. Arizona odds from DraftKings Sportsbook, while the over\/under for total points scored is 138.5. Before making any Arizona vs. Houston picks,\u00a0check out the men’s college basketball predictions and betting advice from the SportsLine Projection Model<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The SportsLine Projection Model simulates every college basketball game 10,000 times. It entered conference tournament week on a sizzling 14-2 run on its top-rated over\/under\u00a0college basketball<\/a>\u00a0picks<\/a>\u00a0dating back to last season, and is on a 28-21 run on top-rated CBB side picks. Anyone following its\u00a0college basketball<\/a>\u00a0betting<\/a>\u00a0advice at\u00a0sportsbooks<\/a>\u00a0and on\u00a0betting apps<\/a>\u00a0could have seen strong returns.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, the model has simulated Houston vs. Arizona<\/a>\u00a010,000 times and just revealed its coveted men’s college basketball picks and betting predictions. You can head to SportsLine now to see the model’s picks<\/a>. Here are several men’s college basketball odds<\/a> and men’s college basketball betting lines for Arizona vs. Houston:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Arizona -1.5\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\n

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138.5 points <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\n

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Arizona -126, Houston +104<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\n

Houston vs. Arizona picks:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n\n

See picks at SportsLine<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\n

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Top Houston vs. Arizona predictions<\/p>\n

SportsLine’s model is going Over on the total (138.5 points)<\/strong>. The Over has hit in two of the last three Arizona games. Houston is 2-8 against the spread in its last 10 games. Arizona, meanwhile, is 4-6 ATS in its last 10.<\/p>\n

The model projects the Cougars to have three players score 12.4 points or more, including Emanuel Sharp<\/a>, who is projected to score 17 points. The Wildcats are projected to have four players score 10.5 points or more, led by Brayden Burries<\/a>, who is projected to score 13.2 points. The model is projecting 148 combined points.<\/p>\n

How to make Arizona vs. Houston picks<\/p>\n

The model also says one side of the spread hits in well over 60% of simulations.\u00a0You can only see that pick at SportsLine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So who wins Arizona vs. Houston, and which side of the spread hits well over 60% of the time?\u00a0Visit SportsLine now to see which side of the Houston vs. Arizona spread to back, all from the advanced model that has simulated this game 10,000 times<\/a>, and find out.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The top two teams in the Big 12 clash when the second-seeded Houston Cougars meet the top-seeded Arizona…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":655193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[3918,39425,277731,243437,243438,2076,4345,277728,277730,277729,2500,358,3187],"class_list":["post-655830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-arizona-wildcats","tag-big-12","tag-big-12-conference-tournament-picks","tag-college-basketball-odds","tag-college-basketball-picks","tag-college-basketball","tag-houston","tag-houston-arizona-odds","tag-houston-arizona-picks","tag-houston-arizona-prediction","tag-houston-cougars","tag-texas","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116229404516392949","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}