{"id":11297,"date":"2010-12-06T10:05:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T15:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11297"},"modified":"2010-12-06T10:05:50","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T15:05:50","slug":"ncaa-basketball-preview-portland-pilots-at-washington-huskies-picks-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-preview-portland-pilots-at-washington-huskies-picks-predictions-11297\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Preview: Portland Pilots at Washington Huskies Picks & Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portland Pilots at Washington Huskies
\nMonday, 12\/6\/10, 10:00 PM EDT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Washington -18
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Washington -19<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Washington Huskies lead the nation in scoring and get set to host the Portland Pilots on Monday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Portland visits the 22nd-ranked Washington Huskies on Monday night in the second of four consecutive road games.\u00a0 The Pilots enter the game having won three straight after dealing the Montana Grizzlies a 58-54 loss in Missoula, Montana on Friday.\u00a0 With its most recent win, the team is 2-0 in true road games.\u00a0 It\u2019s a bit of a surprising start for a program that returned just a single starter from last year\u2019s 21-11 squad, which matched a school Division I record in wins last season.\u00a0 Portland will need a huge game from outside the arc in possibly pulling off the upset, ranking fourth nationally in team three-point percentage (45.4).\u00a0 Last year, the squad finished fifth nationally in the category (40.7).\u00a0 Over the last three seasons, the team is 17-11 ATS on the road and is currently a double-digit underdog on the college basketball lines page.<\/p>\n

The Pilots two-leading scorers, Jared Stohl and Luke Sikma, are Washington natives looking to fare better in gaining revenge from a 89-54 defeat in last year\u2019s meeting.\u00a0 They combined for nine points off the bench against the Huskies in that contest.\u00a0 Portland has played two high-profile programs thus far in the 2010-11 campaign and has managed to shoot below 36 percent in both losses.\u00a0 The team dropped a 79-48 decision to the Kentucky Wildcats on November 19 and 84-68 contest to Washington State four days later.\u00a0 Portland is No. 18 in the Mid-Major Top 25 poll.<\/p>\n

Washington wraps up a quick three-game home stand in meeting tonight\u2019s opponent for the 15th time in the series.\u00a0 The Huskies are 12-2 all-time and 7-0 at home against Portland, but know the Pilots are dangerous due to a season-opening road loss to the Pilots in 2008-09.\u00a0 Coach Lorenzo Romar is 5-4 all-time against Portland, which includes a 3-3 mark at Pepperdine.\u00a0 Losing at Hec Edmundson Pavilion is rare under coach Romar, as the Huskies have won 20 straight non-conference games at the venue.\u00a0 In nine years under his direction, the program is 119-23 overall at home.\u00a0 Washington is 3-3 ATS on the year and 37-34 ATS over the last three seasons overall.<\/p>\n

The Huskies lead the nation in scoring 95.7 points per game and pace the nation in 3-point shooting percentage at 46.3 percent.\u00a0 Washington is also among the country\u2019s leaders in assists per game (20.1), field goal percentage (51.0) and steals (9.7).\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s crazy,\u201d said point guard Isaiah Thomas.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s like every time I look up I\u2019m like, \u2018Dang, we\u2019re at 90.\u201d\u00a0 The offense is well-balanced and has five players averaging in double figures thus far.\u00a0 All of this firepower was the main reason the Pac-10 media experts picked the Huskies to win the Pac-10 for the first time in school history in the preseason media poll.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Pilots are 2-8 ATS as an underdog, while the Huskies are 1-6 ATS versus the West Coast Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Portland Pilots at Washington Huskies Monday, 12\/6\/10, 10:00 PM EDT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Washington -18 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Washington -19 Portland visits the 22nd-ranked Washington Huskies on Monday night in the second of four consecutive road games.\u00a0 The Pilots enter the game having won three straight after dealing the Montana Grizzlies a 58-54 loss in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4062,3923,4061,3924,740,3922,563,3888],"class_list":["post-11297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-hec-edmundson-pavilion","tag-jared-stohl","tag-lorenzo-romar","tag-luke-sikma","tag-pac-10","tag-portland-pilots","tag-washington-huskies","tag-west-coast-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11298,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11297\/revisions\/11298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}