Fact checked at 8:20 AM ET, Nov 13, 2026Odds as of 6:30 AM ET, Nov 13, 2026
No. 12 Arizona (2-1) plays its first true road game of the season at Auburn (2-0) at 9:00 PM ET at Neville Arena. Arizona lost its opener to UCLA 84-75 in Las Vegas, then beat Cal Poly 104-84 and Northern Arizona 90-59 at home. Auburn beat SE Louisiana 92-59 and Appalachian State 75-53. Auburn has won 69 straight nonconference games in this building, though only one of those opponents was ranked. Arizona is a 3-point favorite with the total at 159.5. We expect a close, half-court game decided at the rim, where Auburn has the size to slow an Arizona team that isn't making threes. That keeps the score under the total and the margin inside the number. Arizona forward RJ Godfrey hasn't played this season while he fights in court for a fifth year of eligibility, and his hearing isn't until next week. Men's college basketball has no availability report; both teams have started the same five in every game.
Arizona vs. Auburn Predictions
Pick #1Under 159.5−110
Three public projections that print a score average 157.1 total points, and two of them land at 156 or lower. At -110 the Under implies 52.4%.
The shooting matchup is the reason. Arizona has made 19 of 69 threes this season (27.5%), and it went 7 of 30 against UCLA, the only ranked team it has played. Auburn's two opponents made 15 of 61 threes (24.6%) and 38 of 123 shots overall (30.9%), and the Tigers blocked 17 shots. Those games came against SE Louisiana and Appalachian State, so expect those percentages to climb. Still, Arizona scores at the rim, and Auburn's roster is built to protect it. Narcisse Ngoy is 7 feet and 280 pounds, Bukky Oboye is 7-foot-1, and three more players in the 10-man rotation are 6-foot-8 or taller.
Auburn's games have finished with 151 and 128 points. Arizona's one game against a ranked team finished with 159.
The free-throw line is our concern. Arizona took 36 in the 104-84 win over Cal Poly, a 188-point game, and 30 against UCLA. A foul-heavy night, or Arizona getting out in transition the way it did at home, gets this over.
Pick #2Auburn +3−112
Four public projections give Arizona between 43% and 58% to win, an average of about 51%. The three that print a score have Arizona by 1.3 points on average, and the highest has it by exactly three. That's close to a coin flip. The Arizona moneyline says 60%, and Auburn with the points at -112 needs only a 52.8% chance.
Same matchup, same reasoning. Motiejus Krivas took four shots against UCLA because UCLA doubled him as soon as he caught it in the post, and Auburn has bigger bodies to do it again. Arizona scored 56 and 52 points in the paint in its home wins, and 28 against UCLA. Arizona hasn't covered a spread in three tries this season, and it is still without Godfrey, the forward it expected to start at the four.
Ivan Kharchenkov is the biggest threat. He had 38 points and 10 rebounds against UCLA and leads Arizona in points, rebounds and assists. Auburn's scoring runs through Tahaad Pettiford, who had 26 against Appalachian State while nobody else reached double figures. If Arizona takes Pettiford away and Kharchenkov gets loose, the Wildcats can win by more than three. That same game, with Arizona pulling away in transition, is the one that threatens the Under.
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