UC-Riverside vs. Hawaii Pick – Basketball Predictions & Odds 1/21/23

The Hawaii Warriors and the UC-Riverside Highlanders meet in college basketball action from the SRC Arena on Saturday. Let’s dive into the odds, injuries, matchup history and make a prediction for this game.

Odds

UC-Riverside is listed as a 3-point favorite for this game with a -145 ML price while the total for this game is set at 131.5 points.

Injuries

Hawaii hasn’t announced any new injuries since the start of the season while UC-Riverside’s injury report is clean as well so barring any last-minute announcements, both teams will come in at full strength.

Matchup history

Hawaii won the last matchup between these two teams back on March 10^th, 2022, making it four straight wins by the home team in this head-to-head matchup.

Trends

Hawaii is 6-1 ATS in their last 7 games following an ATS loss and 0-5-1 ATS in their last 6 road games against a team with a winning home record while the over is 4-0 in their last 4 games following a loss. UC-Riverside is 10-2 ATS in their last 12 games against a team with a winning percentage above .600 and 4-0 ATS in their last 4 Saturday games while the over is 9-2 in their last 11 home games.

Pick

I’m backing UC-Riverside here. Hawaii is a solid team, but they look to be a bit of a different team when you take them off of the island and UC-Riverside is still a solid team at home and home court has mattered in this matchup with the home team winning the last four meetings and covering in each of the last three. I think this one will be tight but I look for UC-Riverside to pull away late for the win and cover.