AR Pine Bluff vs Gonzaga (12-05-23) Game Preview | College Basketball Expert Picks and Predictions

[Music] are they here to hear about Arkansas Pine Bluff and Gonzaga I'm not sure but you're about to hear about it on the BET us college basketball show the zags who were impressive on the neutral floor in Las Vegas by beating USC will now lay 33 and a half with Pine Bluff again one of the H uh BCU uh that again we keep talking about this time of year they've played four five six of these games on a travel tour for buy games total 165 is this potentially going to be a blowout for Gonzaga Jeff NAU is back with more thoughts and an official play what do you think yeah you also may want to penil in Saturday after G they play Gonzaga here in Washington they got to go across the country and play Connecticut on Saturday so you know you got to give boseman's team some credit here they make the travels this team uh that said um I love the over in this game all all over over 165 I I think it's probable that Gonzaga gets to 100 in this game uh Ken pal forecasted I believe 101 which is rare you rarely see that on Camp Amoy um look uh Pine Bluff is the worst defensive team in America I I I believe they are they've alloted 83 points or more in every game they played against a division one opponent they've lot 100 I think three times or two times here loud 90 is singly in every game this is a horrible defensive team and I actually watch them because I bet against them weirdly enough last week against Oklahoma and you know while Oklahoma got to 107 this team scored 86 and I'm not going to tell you in cty they're a good offensive team but they play Fast they're a team that will keep playing fast when you go to your second unit and I think what bodess to me here well is they're really good at the free throw line and they're quite good at getting to it they shoot almost 80% from the line and they're actually a really good three-point shooting team I watch point we talked about that Oklahoma Pine Bluff game on the show and since you watched it more carefully than most of us did did Oklahoma let off the gas in letting them score did they make threes to get to 86 points how did they how did they get to that level listen Oklahoma definitely left their foot off the gas but the truth of the matter was Pine Bluff was making some really nice shots in the game they they hit some threes they were getting to the line I keep in mind Pine Bluff got to the line 27 times and made 22 free throws but they made some threes banged some threes and kind of got lucky but I don't really need them to get to 87 I think if they can get to 67 70 I think just finds its way over and I think one thing we know about Gonzaga this isn't an elite defensive team I don't know how interested they are in this game gonzaga's got a game against Washington on Deck we know that's a kind of a rivalry that's a good Washington team um I just don't think they care that much about this match up and throw in guys Gonzaga has no bench they're going to have their starting unit out there for most of this game I think they get to to the hundreds here I think this game goes over 165 you're going to have a great Pace in this game Matty Cox I just looked they made eight threes in the Oklahoma game and as he mentioned they got to the line 27 times don't know what you can replicate that at Gonzaga thoughts here on this matchup Pine Bluff and Gonzaga yeah Pine Bluff can score and they actually had some real Shooters like we'll see what they do in swag play it's tough to make any real sense of you know their results um against the big boys and their travels been as Chef mentioned just absolutely you know disastrous but yeah rad Williams a guy used to play for Oakland who put like 30 something on Oklahoma State couple years ago had to sit out at slew kind of a journeyman type guy people forgot about they still have Joe French a guy that you know probably don't know if you don't follow the swack but he's been like one of the most politic three-point sharers in that league for multiple years now so yeah if you get kind of that Matador last 10 minute Gonzaga foot off the gas defense I think Pine Bluff can run up 2530 in the last 10 minutes they scored 30 in the last 10 minutes last game against Oklahoma that's where you're you know need this over to kind of hit the gas is where you get that late garbage flurry uh from the Lions I think you get it tonight with boseman's bunch I I just want to ask Matt I'm curious about this because I mentioned Yukon plays Pine Bluff on Saturday so Yukon just beat Kansas they got to play Carolina tonight which we're about to talk about then they come home and play Pine Bluff and then they got Gonzaga on Deck it's kind of a weird schedule thing go the West Coast too to play Gonzaga to yeah I I think you know Yukon is actually sort of in a sleepy type of part of the schedule where I'm not going to lay points with them anymore I think they're trying to rest clinging and cast also but yeah it's a weird schedule for both parties there all right interesting that they're also playing Arkansas Pine Bluff uh Jeff is caring about one thing tonight offense and a lot of it he says points points points Gonzaga and Arkansas Pine Bluff get over the total of 165 you didn't do it today you need to give me I always expect this from you this game feels like I mean what would you say on the math what does this game feel like come on give me that I need that yeah this game feels like 10668 or something it's a now it's a Nao over I like that 10 10668 something along those lines P Bluff is bad on defense man they just don't play right it's a layup line but do they make some shots and score some points which is what you want they scored 52 in the second half at Oklahoma 52 in the second half for what wor SC man you got you can't you can't sleep on the what are they the uh the the golden Lions they played some decent teams too played Minnesota played they scored 79 against missou Matt's uh doesn't M Matt don't you like mizou or one of your people over there my my three man leag cohorts like mou yeah but mou don't play defense either mou likes to let teams uh you know come back in and and score get their courtesy garbage points as well so I think that's a little bit distorted for sure and TJ real quick one other thing I know we spent like way too much time on this game but I will say one thing Gonzaga played uh who was it they played a team in this so Northern Arizona it was 9549 I a couple of years ago I need more points than 49 so come on gold lions get to 65 will you score score score [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] score