Louisville at Washington

Simply put, these two teams are very evenly matched and this may be one of the most exciting basketball match-ups on paper that we have seen. Games that are this evenly matched usually come down to coaching, and I believe in Pitino, who may be the best coach in the land. UW is a talented bunch, but they have not faced a team that can match them shot for shot, pass for pass, possession for possession. People keep pointing to UW's performance over Pacific, but they should have beaten Pacific they way they did. Pacific was large and played without an athletic flare, which allowed the Huskies style to eat at you. Louisville is nothing like that. Picture Arizona with four great shooters. Washington is 0-7 ATS after scoring 80 points or more 3 straight games over the last 3 seasons. Folks, Lousiville is steamed that they did not get the number one seed, and they'll show they deserved it when they beat the Huskies Thursday. Three stars on Pitino's boys here.