The Stanford Cardinal (1-0) travel to Milwaukee to take on the Wisconsin Badgers (1-0) Friday at 7:30 p.m. ET (FS1). Below, we analyze Tipico Sportsbook’s lines around the Stanford vs. Wisconsin odds, and make our expert college basketball picks, predictions and bets.
Stanford comes in after an opening home victory 88-78 over Pacific University on Monday. Although the Cardinal won by 10, they did not cover the final spread of -15.
Wisconsin is also coming off an opening night' 85-59 win South Dakota. The Badgers won by 26 as 11.5-point favorites and the game went over the posted total of 137.5. Not an easy feat for a Wisconsin team known to be slow paced and defensive minded.
This will be one of few opening-week games between 2 Power 5 programs and it will be a happy break from the monotony of 40-point blowouts between top 25 and quad 4 programs.