WATCH: Kaila's Keys for Beating the Arizona Wildcats on the Road
Play/Shoot How They Did Against ASU
Making 11 3-pointers, shooting 51 percent from the floor and sinking 19 of 22 from the foul line is solid. Ten offensive rebounds for 16 second-chance points with 27 bench points and 27 fast-break points? Yes, please! Four players scoring in double digits and Naz Carter tying his career high with 23 points like he did against Baylor helped lead the way. The UW offense needs to do all of that again.
Defend the Dynamic Duo
With Chase Jeter being suspended for violating team rules, the Wildcats will rely on Zeke Nnaji and Nico Mannion. In their dominating win over WSU on Thursday, Mannion put up 21 points and Nnaji led with 23. Let’s compare this to C.J. Elleby and Isaac Bonton of the Cougars, who play really well together. If you can take one out of the equation, you have better odds of coming away with a win.
No Third Key
I’ve got nothing. I don’t mean that in rude way, but more of a verbal expression of how frustrating this UW team and season have been. Almost every key that I’ve supplied in prior games doesn't happen. If the Huskies want to carry momentum into Pac-12 tournament play, they need to come up with something new at Arizona. For a quick refresher, the keys had to do with rebounds, turnovers, takeaways, zone defense, momentum-changers, being disciplined, etc. None of those things happened in their losses, and that speaks for itself. Just win, Huskies.
My Spread Prediction: -7 Arizona
My Total Points Prediction: 143
