T.M. Selection: Santa Clara/Washington State OVER.

I am on the over in the Santa Clara vs Washington State game on Tuesday. Santa Clara has been involved in a lot of high scoring games recently and they have been putting up a ton of points themselves in their games lately. They just put up 72 points in their most recent game against St. Mary's but they had put up 89+ points in 3 games in a row before that and this has been a common theme for them all year since a lot of their games have seen them put up 70+ and 80+ points. They do not play a lot of defense in their games though since they have given up 70+ points in 7/8 of their previous 8 games and I don't expect them to start playing defense in their games now. Washington State didn't put up a lot of points in the Pac-12 tournament, putting up 65 and 66 points in those games, but they ended their regular season with 5 games in a row where they put up 70+ points and they even put up 90+ points in 2 of those games. They even won quite a few games to end their year but their wins are usually close and they don't really play good on defense in their games either since the opposing team usually keeps up with them until the end for scoring. I expect both of these teams to hang around with each other the entire game and I don't see either team taking a big lead here. I think both are just going to keep putting up points trying to outscore the other so I like the over in this game.

T.M. Prediction: 84-81 Washington State.