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The top team in the Pac-12 is back in action on Thursday night as No. 2 Arizona hosts Stanford at 9 p.m. ET at the McKale Memorial Center. Arizona is 26-3 overall and 15-0 at home, while Stanford is 15-13 overall and 3-7 on the road. Wildcats forward Azoulas Tubelis scored just six points in Arizona's last game against USC, but over his last five games, he has averaged 18.6 points and 7.4 rebounds.

The Wildcats are favored by 18.5 points in the latest Arizona vs. Stanford odds from Caesars Sportsbook, and the over-under is set at 145.5. Before entering any Stanford vs. Arizona picks, you'll want to see the college basketball predictions from the model at SportsLine.

The SportsLine Projection Model simulates every Division I college basketball game 10,000 times. Over the past five-plus years, the proprietary computer model has generated an impressive profit of over $1,700 for $100 players on its top-rated college basketball picks against the spread. Anyone who has followed it has seen huge returns.

Now, the model has set its sights on Arizona vs. Stanford. You can head to SportsLine to see its picks. Here are several college basketball odds for Stanford vs. Arizona:

  • Arizona vs. Stanford spread: Arizona -18.5
  • Arizona vs. Stanford over-under: 145.5 points

What you need to know about Arizona

In a matchup between the top teams in the Pac-12, Arizona asserted its dominance with a 91-71 win over No. 16 Southern California on Tuesday. The win came by an even larger margin than the first time the Wildcats defeated the Trojans on February 5, 72-63. Arizona guard Bennedict Mathurin led the charge on offense with 19 points and six assists in addition to five rebounds. Kerr Kriisa has had top performances in two of his last three games, including Tuesday's win, when he scored 18 points to go with four assists and four rebounds.

Kriisa leads the Pac-12 in assists this season with 138, and he had a game-high seven assists against Stanford in the last meeting between the two programs. The Wildcats should be able to manufacture some extra possessions on offense on Thursday, as Stanford turns the ball over 15 times per game, which is the 27th-highest rate in the nation. That could be lethal against the Wildcats, who average 30.8 field goals per contest; the fourth-most in college basketball this season.

What you need to know about Stanford

Stanford just didn't come to play in its last game against California on Saturday, which ended in a 53-39 loss for the Cardinal. Spencer Jones was the only player able to reach double-figures in the game for Stanford, and just barely, as he finished with 10 points. As a team, Stanford shot just 23.5 percent from the field, and an abysmal 22.2 percent from beyond the 3-point line. Harrison Ingram, who has been the Cardinal's leading scorer this year, finished with only six points on 2-for-10 shooting in his 30 minutes on the court.

The Wildcats enter the matchup scoring 84.7 points per game on average, the third-best mark in the nation. On the other end of the spectrum, the Cardinal stumble into the game with the 48th-fewest points per game, at just 66 per outing. 

How to make Stanford vs. Arizona picks

The model is leaning under on the total, and it's also generated a point-spread pick that is hitting in over 50 percent of simulations. You can only see the pick at SportsLine.

So who wins Arizona vs. Stanford? And which side of the spread hits over 50 percent of the time? Visit SportsLine right now to see which side of the spread you need to jump on, all from the computer model that has crushed its college basketball picks, and find out.