Utah State Aggies vs Arizona Wildcats Prediction, Odds and Picks for Today, 03/22/26

The #9 seeded Utah State Aggies take on the #1 seed in the West Regional, the Arizona Wildcats. This game is in San Diego. The Wildcats cruised past LIU on Friday, as expected, while the Aggies had to win a dogfight with Villanova. The Aggies pulled away late, but the game was back and forth for all but the final few minutes. Utah State is a good basketball team, but they are just outmatched here. The #1 seeds are #1 seeds for a reason, and we can expect Arizona to win by margin. Let’s take Arizona -12.

Utah State is a well-balanced team. They do everything well and nothing poorly. I have no real criticism for them. The issue in this game is that Arizona is just too good. The Aggies have no obvious advantages in the matchup, nothing that they can try to exploit to pull the upset. Arizona is more athletic and more talented at every position, and this is the time of year where talent wins. We shouldn’t really expect any of the 9 seeds to take out the 1 seeds, but we also shouldn’t really expect many of them to stay close either. Take the Wildcats.

Utah State vs Arizona Prediction: Arizona -12 (-110) available at the time of publishing. Playable to -14.5.