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Alabama is a mere 1.5-point home favorite over Auburn with a high-scoring affair expected, given the Over/Under is 172.5. KenPom.com is a college basketball website that oddsmakers and bettors hold in high regard. It projects the top-ranked Tigers winning 88-87.

In a state entrenched in football tradition, Nate Oats and Bruce Pearl have transformed the Tide and Tigers to the two best teams in college basketball.

Welcome to another Saturday college basketball slate as we inch closer and closer to March. The resumes are shaping into place and bracketologists everywhere are coming out of the woodwork as the bubble debate begins to heat up while love is in the air.

It’s time to continue our College Basketball odds series with a Pepperdine-Gonzaga prediction and pick. Find out how to watch Pepperdine-Gonzaga. The Gonzaga Bulldogs are two games behind the Saint Mary’s Gaels in the West Coast Conference race.