We like the Houston Cougars to defeat the Purdue Boilermakers on Friday at 10:09pm ET for a number of reasons. Here are some of the more important ones:

Houston took down Gonzaga last round and has probably the easiest path of all the one seeds to the Final Four now.

The Cougars have won 10 games in a row, including eight straight here in March.

They are also 3-1 against the spread over their L4 games.

Purdue has played two double digit seeds so far and now faces a one seed.

That's a bit difference for the Boilermakers and it's going to hurt them here.

We think Houston rolls to the Elite Eight without any trouble.

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