Arizona @ Colorado

Who will WIN this matchup?

Arizona Wildcats (14-11)

@ Colorado Buffaloes (15-9)

Current odds:

Arizona Wildcats: (+205)

Colorado Buffaloes: (-245)

• The line for this game is Colorado by 5.5 points.

• Two Pac-12 teams headed in opposite directions intersect Sunday night in Boulder as Colorado hosts Arizona. The surging Buffaloes have won a conference-most four straight games while the struggling Wildcats have dropped six straight – their longest losing streak in 35 years. It feels like years ago, but Arizona did get off to a 4-0 Pac-12 start, including a 64-56 win over Colorado on Jan. 3. Since that 4-0 start, though, injuries and the lingering presence of the FBI recruiting investigation have helped contribute to a 1-7 skid for the Wildcats, who currently find themselves in 10th place in the Pac-12.

• For Colorado, fortunes have swung the other way as Tad Boyle’s Buffaloes have rebounded nicely from a 1-4 Pac-12 start to win five of their next seven, with the latest being Wednesday’s 77-73 victory over visiting Arizona State.

• Freshman guard Brandon Williams, the team’s second-leading scorer (12 points per game) and assists leader (3.7), has missed the last four contests with a knee injury and is not expected back Sunday even though he made the two-game trip north. Guard Brandon Randolph (13.6 points) and center Chase Jeter (11.6) are the other Wildcats averaging double figures, but they struggled Thursday in Salt Lake City, combining for 10 points on 4-of-12 shooting. As a team, Arizona is averaging 70.9 points and is shooting a Pac-12 worst 39.9 percent from the field in conference play.

• The 1-2 punch of sophomores McKinley Wright and Tyler Bey knocked out the Sun Devils on Wednesday as they combined for 46 points on 18-of-25 shooting while adding 23 rebounds and eight assists. For Wright, who averages a team-leading 13.5 points, his 24 points marked a season high while Bey’s 17 rebounds were a career high and contributed to his ninth double-double on the season. Big man Evan Battey was limited to only 10 minutes Wednesday night due to back soreness and his status is questionable for Sunday.

• Arizona has won six of the last seven meetings and 14 of 19 since Colorado joined the Pac-12 in 2011, but is 2-4 in Boulder during that span.

• The Buffaloes’ four-game win streak is their longest in conference play since 2005-06 when they were members of the Big 12.

• Led by Bey’s 9.3 boards per game, Colorado ranks third in the Pac-12 with a 5.3 average rebound margin while Arizona is seventh at 0.1 and is led by Jeter’s 7.0 average.