Rutgers can start turning around a highly disappointing season when it hosts UCLA in Big Ten action. Both teams have lost three in a row. In Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey, the Scarlet Knights boast two of the projected Top-3 picks in the 2025 NBA Draft. But in a poll of SportsLine Discord members, 58 percent favored the Bruins to cover. Note that the vote was taken on a line of UCLA -2.5. The line is moving up, with 3.5s showing in many spots. To join the Discord, click "Join Our Community" from the SportsLine homepage.

Mick Cronin's Al McGuire act didn't work for UCLA at Maryland as the Bruins tumbled to a third straight defeat. Though UCLA "improved" to 6 of 18 beyond the arc against the Terps after converting just 6 of 48 triples in two preceding games, key F Eric Dailey still plays with a goalie mask to protect a facial injury, and Cronin seems to have had it with struggling G Dylan Andrews, on the floor just 17 minutes at College Park. Rutgers is desperate, too, after three straight losses, though star frosh Dylan Harper (20.1 ppg) should be beyond his bad case of the flu that slowed his January production, and fellow 6-10 frosh hybrid Ace Bailey recently hit Indiana for 39. Play Rutgers