Houston at Cincinnati

The Cincinnati Bearcats may have their best team in recent memory. The Bearcats have won 12 straight games, and moved to eighth in the rankings. This has always been a defense-first team under Mick Cronin. The Bearcats defend as well as anyone, but often have offensive droughts, and that combination has led them to a 105-58-3 mark to the UNDER over their last 166 games. Those 166 opponents have combined to average just 59.2 points per game. Cincinnati has been even better than that vs. Houston, allowing the Cougars just 57.8 ppg in the last eight meetings, with seven of the eight contests falling shy of the total. Houston managed just 47 points here last year, and this one is going to play UNDER the total.