Arizona A Solid Bet to Tame the Clemson Tigers
The Second-Seeded Wildcats Are Favored by the Clemson vs Arizona matchup odds

Arizona is Favored to Make its First Regional Final in Nine Years
Arizona is two wins away from its first Final Four appearance since 2001 after posting a pair of double-digit point victories with Clemson eyeing its first Final Four appearance. Arizona is favored according to the Clemson vs Arizona matchup odds.
Clemson and Arizona haven’t played since 2012 when Arizona won 66-54 as a 5.5-point favorite. Clemson is 1-3 Sweet 16 games with Arizona 11-8 in the regional semifinals.
The college basketball betting lines lists the Wildcats as the 7-point favorite against Clemson. The Wildcats are priced at -300 to win the game outright with Clemson at +250 to pull off the upset.
Arizona hasn’t been an underdog in the NCAA tournament since a 2013 game against Ohio State. A 2016 matchup with Wichita State went off as a Pick’em.
When looking at the March Madness Sweet 16 bracket, the winner of this game will face either North Carolina or Alabama in the West Region Final.
Arizona fell in the college basketball rankings after an early exit in the Pac-12 tournament, going from sixth to ninth in the Associated Press poll and tumbling from seventh to ninth in the USA Today coaches poll.
Arizona is fourth at +850 in the odds of winning March Madness. Clemson is tied with North Carolina State and San Diego at +8000 for the longest NCAAB odds to win the national title.
Keep on reading for more on the West regional semifinal between Clemson and Arizona.
Clemson vs Arizona 
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Records: Clemson 23-11/Arizona 27-8
Location: crypto.com Arena, Los Angeles, CA
Streaming: CBS
Tigers Starting to Roar Again
The month of March did not start off well for Clemson with the Tigers losing two of the last three games of the regular season and then losing by 21 points to Boston College in its ACC tournament opener.
It has been a different deal since the NCAA tournament started.
The Tigers trailed for just 31 seconds in a first-round win over a New Mexico team that was drawing plenty of interest as an upset special among those predicting the March Madness scores.
Clemson never trailed against No. 3 seed Baylor and had to hold off a furious rally by the Bears to advance to the regionals with the 72-64 win as a 4.5-point underdog.
Chase Hunter, a fifth-year senior, has 41 points and 12 assists in the first two games of the NCAA tournament. He is one of three fifth-year seniors in the starting lineup for Clemson. That could factor into the Clemson vs Arizona matchup odds.
The total has finished under in six of Clemson’s last nine games.
Wildcats Starting to Get Defensive
The offense has not the issue for Arizona with the Wildcats ranking among the top-scoring NCAAB teams in the country. The defense has been a different story.
In the first two NCAA tournament games, Arizona has held its opponents 10-for-41 shooting from 3-point range. Long Beach State connected on just 33.3% of its shots and Dayton made three of its last five shots to edge over the 40% mark.
Arizona has allowed more than 75 points in six of its eight losses this season. The Wildcats are 21-2 when holding their opponents under 75 points. Keep that in mind when it comes to the Clemson vs Arizona matchup odds.
The total has gone under in four of Arizona’s last six NCAAB games.
Last Meeting
Arizona bounced back from surrendering a 14-point lead with a dominating run in the second half on the way to a 66-54 win as the 5.5-point favorite on the road. The win kept Arizona undefeated for the program’s best start in 14 years as Arizona improved to 3-0 against the Tigers.
The game finished under the 128-point total as Arizona swept the home-and-home series after winning at home by 16 points in 2011 in a game that also landed under the total.
Clemson vs Arizona Betting Preview
The proud history of Pac-12 men’s basketball in the NCAA tournament will end when Arizona plays its final game in this year’s March Madness bracket.
With Washington State, Colorado, and Oregon all losing, the Wildcats are the last Pac-12 standing in the men’s March Madness bracket.
Arizona is 25-8 as the favorite this season with Clemson winning six of its nine games as the underdog.
Arizona has played all season without 7-foot freshman Henri Veesaar. Clemson’s top six scorers have appeared in all 33 games this NCAAB season.
Six free throws in the final minute against Dayton enabled Arizona to improve to 4-3-1 against the spread in neutral-site games. Just two of those games finished over the total. Clemson is 5-1 in neutral-site games this season. Five of those matchups finished under the total.
Eight of Arizona’s last 10 games played in March went under the total. The total is set at 152 for this matchup as Arizona ranks 10th in defensive efficiency according to the Pomeroy college basketball ratings.
Clemson has covered in just three of its last eight games played in March.
Clemson’s ability to rebound after a tough ending to the regular season is admirable but Arizona looks like the best bet to advance to the Elite Eight.
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