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Best Bet: AUB ML (+105) at Fanatics
Best Bet: U159.5 (-110) at DraftKings
Score Prediction: Auburn 80, Arizona 79
The Pick: Auburn 80, Arizona 79
We’ll take the Auburn Tigers moneyline based on the price tag for winning 71 straight home games against non-conference schools, while the Under is another play based on venue data.
Game Betting Analysis
There isn’t a lot to like about this game when going through the data. Let’s start with the ATS market, as Arizona is just 2-5 ATS when playing as a road favorite – given 2.5-points inside a venue that’s is tough to win in. Neville Arena has seen Auburn win it’s last 71 games against non-conference opponents, but is just 4-7 ATS as an underdog along with 5-7 ATS against AP ranked schools – hardly numbers to get behind. Let’s move to the total then where the Over seems healthy based on each team’s scoring outputs. Auburn is also 12-6 O/U in non-conference games while 14-7 O/U when coming off a win. Arizona is 5-2 O/U as a road favorite. So we go Over? Well, the total is a high 159.5 when you see Auburn is only averaging 139.5 points per home game this season, while also failing to reach 160 total points in 12 straight non-conference games played on a Friday. We’re hard-pressed here, but with unreliable data sets for either market there is reason to take a chance on Auburn’s 71-game home winning streak against non-conference schools for plus-money. If not sold on Auburn, the Under is the next best play pairing the Under data with Auburn’s one-man scoring system – and has more conviction in our POV than the outright risk for Auburn.
Arizona-Auburn Odds (Spread, Moneyline, Over/Under)
Deciding Factor: Arizona’s Two-Deep Frontcourt Punch vs. Auburn’s One-Man Scoring Show
No. 12 Arizona arrives at Neville Arena still answering questions from its own season-opening stumble, but the response has been emphatic. Tommy Lloyd’s Wildcats dropped their opener to UCLA 84-75 in Las Vegas despite Ivan Kharchenkov’s 38-point explosion, undone by foul trouble that forced Motiejus Krivas into limited minutes and knocked Arizona to just 1-for-13 from three in the first half. They answered immediately: Krivas erupted for 30 points in a 104-84 rout of Cal Poly on Nov. 5, then throttled Northern Arizona 90-59 on Nov. 10 to sit at 2-1 heading into this true road test. What makes this roster dangerous is that it can beat you multiple ways — Jaden Bradley running the show, Koa Peat’s physicality inside, Krivas’s size and touch when he’s not in foul trouble, and Kharchenkov capable of a 38-point night when he gets going — and that kind of two-deep frontcourt and proven guard play is built to travel well against a first-time ranked opponent on the road.
Auburn, meanwhile, is 2-0 but playing almost entirely off the national radar — No. 44 in Jon Rothstein’s preseason rankings and left off ESPN’s preseason top 25 entirely — as Steven Pearl enters his second season after inheriting the program from his father Bruce, who retired abruptly last spring. The two wins have come against Southeastern Louisiana and Appalachian State, hardly a murderer’s row, and the warning sign is already visible: Tahaad Pettiford was Auburn’s only double-figure scorer in the 75-53 win over App State, pouring in 26 points while Adam Olsen and Kolby King topped out at nine apiece. Keyshawn Hall and Elyjah Freeman, Auburn’s top two scorers a year ago, are both gone, leaving new transfers Thomas Dowd and Owen Freeman still proving themselves in the frontcourt. If the Tigers are once again forced to lean on Pettiford to carry the offense against a deeper, more talented Arizona team that just dropped 104 points on an overmatched Cal Poly squad, Auburn’s unbeaten start could take its first real hit at home Friday night.
Game Information
- Date: Friday, November 13, 2026
- Kickoff: 9:00 p.m. (ET)
- Network: ESPN2, ESPN+
- Location: Auburn, Alabama
- Venue: Neville Arena – 139.5 ppg
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Key Players
Arizona Wildcats
- Ivan Kharchenkov — Last Game: 20 points, 7 rebounds, 7 assists
- Caleb Holt — Last Game: 17 points, 5 rebounds
Auburn Tigers
- Tahaad Pettiford — Last Game: 26 points
- Narcisse Ngoy — Last Game: 6 points, 11 rebounds
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