Arkansas Razorbacks vs St. John's Red Storm Prediction, Odds and Picks for Saturday, 03/22/25

Saturday’s second game on the slate takes us to the West Region, but this pod is being played in Providence, Rhode Island. Here is an Arkansas Razorbacks vs St. John’s Red Storm prediction in an intriguing matchup of similar teams and similar coaches. As the committee loves to do, it has set up a storyline matchup — this in the second round between 2 future Hall of Fame coaches in Rick Pitino and John Calipari, both of whom did their best work at Kentucky. On Thursday, St. John’s eventually blew Omaha away despite the Mavericks making of game of it in the first half. For Arkansas, the win came at the expense of Kansas — who took a first-round loss for the first time in almost 2 decades. On Saturday, I look for the Red Storm to keep it going; my Arkansas vs St. John’s pick is the Johnnies -7.

These teams are very similar. Both play terrific defense, good enough offense and try to play very fast. The thing is: St. John’s is simply better than Arkansas in all of those aspects. Arkansas has a top-20 defense; St. John’s is #1. Arkansas plays fast; St. John’s plays faster. The Johnnies don’t take many 3s, nor do they defend it particularly well; but Arkansas doesn’t really make its living from the outside, either. I think this is a case of 2 similarly-constructed teams, but where one of them is just way better at it than the other. Give me SJU.

Arkansas vs St. John’s prediction: St. John’s -7 (-110) available at time of publishing. Playable at that number.

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