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The line on the Boise State vs. Gonzaga Bulldogs game should be set at Zags -12.
Gonzaga
Record: 26-3, 13-1 WCC
KenPom adjusted offensive efficiency: 3
KenPom adjusted defensive efficiency: 7
Against The Spread: 15-12-2
Over Total: 12-17
Odds to win NCAA Championship: +350
Gonzaga returns Drew Timme and Andrew Nembhard from last year’s team along with Chet Holmgren, who is averaging 14.4 points and 9.7 rebounds per game.
Boise State
Record: 27-7, 15-3 MWC
KenPom adjusted offensive efficiency: 76
KenPom adjusted defensive efficiency: 17
Against The Spread: 18-15
Over Total: 16-17
Odds to win NCAA Championship: +15000
The Broncos are back in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since the 2014-15 season.
Boise State has a Top 20 defense nationally.
They are 27-7 and beat the San Diego State Aztecs 53-52 to win the Mountain West Tournament and earn the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Tournament MVP Abu Kigab scored 11 points and Emmanuel Akot added 10 for the Broncos, who became just the fifth team in Mountain West history to win an outright regular-season conference championship and the league’s postseason tournament.
Boise State — which had made the semifinals just three times in 10 years, and had just one appearance there since 2015 — entered the tourney coming off their first outright regular-season conference title in more than three decades.
- Ean Lamb, Gambling911.com
