Predictem College Basketball Archives: January 2011 Through December 2011

Saturday College Basketball Pick: Oregon St. +2. – 12/31

Friday: Passing. – 12/30

Thursday: BYU +4. – 12/29

Wednesday College Hoops: Montana St. +1.5 and Louisville -6. – 12/28

Saturday through Monday: No games scheduled.

Tuesday: Passing! – 12/27

Friday NCAAB Selections: Rhode Island +5, UTEP +11, Miss. Valley St. +29.5. (These lines were a half point better than most sportsbooks are offering at Sportsbetting and at -105 too!) – 12/23

Thursday College Baskets: Charlotte -1, Idaho State +5.5. – 12/22

Wednesday NCAAB Play of the Day: UL Lafayette +1. – 12/21

Tuesday College Hoops Plays: Western Carolina +5.5, Eastern Washington +16.5 – 12/20

Monday Plays: Delaware +2.5, Rice +3.5, USC -7, Western Illinois -1.5. – 12/19

Bernie Fine Fired: Syracuse has fired associate coach B. Fine after a 3rd person came forward to allege sexual abuse. – 11/27

Staying Put: Arizona Wildcats Coach Sean Miller rejecten an offer to take the vacant head coaching position at Maryland and then signed an extension with Arizona. He was also rumored to have been targeted by N.C. State. – 5/8

Popular Coach Retires: Maryland Terrapins Coach Gary Williams has retired. Williams won 461 games in his 22 years with the Terps. – 5/5

Miami Snags Larranaga: George Mason Coach Jim Larranaga has left to coach the Miami Hurricanes. Larranaga led G. Mason to a 273-164 over 14 seasons. – 4/22

Congrats to the Uconn Huskies! 2011 NCAA Basketball Champions! – 4/4

Monday NCAA Championship Game Pick: Connecticut Huskies -3 – 4/4

Saturday Final Four Pick: Kentucky Wildcats -2. – 4/2

Sunday Elite 8 Pick: Kentucky Wildcats -1.5. – 3/27

Saturday Elite 8 Pick: Butler +4. – 3/26

Friday March Madness Pick: Kentucky Wildcats +6.5. – 3/25

Thursday March Madness Pick: Duke Blue Devils -9. – 3/24

Sunday NCAA Tournament Pick: Florida State Seminoles +5. – 3/20

Saturday March Madness Selection: Gonzaga -1.5. – 3/19

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Friday March Madness Pick: Purdue Boilermakers -15. – 3/18

Thursday NCAA Tournament Pick: UC Santa Barbara +12.5. – 3/17

Wednesday College Hoops Selection: Alabama State +3. – 3/16

Tuesday NCAAB Play: Santa Clara -4.5. – 3/15

Sunday Big Ten Championship Game Pick: Penn State Nittany Lions at +10.5. – 3/13

Saturday College Basketball Plays: Grambling/Alabama St. OVER 120.5. – 3/12.

Friday NCAA Basketball Pick: St. Mary’s -14.5 ***BEST BET ALERT*** – 3/11

Thursday NCAAB Selection: Alabama St. -3.5. – 3/10

Wednesday CBB Pick: Rice Owls +2. – 3/9

Tuesday NCAAB Pick of the Day: Northern Colorado Bears -4.5 – 3/8

Monday WCC Championship Game Pick: ***BEST BET ALERT*** Gonzaga
-1. The Bulldogs are RED HOT! – 3/7

Red Raiders Fire Coach: Texas Tech HC Pat Knight was fired today. He’ll stay on board to coach the team through the Big 12 tournament though. Knight, who took over for his dad, didn’t do much in his three year sting with the school, posting a 50-60 record. – 3/7

Sunday NCAA Hoops Play of the Day: NC St. -1 to beat Florida St. – 3/6

Saturday’s CBB POD: Seton Hall -1. – 3/5

Friday’s College Basketball Paly of the Day: UNC Greensboro +10.5. – 3/4

Thursday’s NCAA Hoops Best Bet: Wake Forest Demon Deacons +6.5. – 3/3

Wednesday’s Top Plays: Iowa State at a pick’em (-125) and Louisville -13.5. – 3/2

Tuesday College Hoops Point Spread Prediction: Nebraska Cornhuskers -1.5. – 3/1

Monday NCAA Hoops Pick: North Carolina A&T -1. – 2/28

Sunday’s Best Bet: Louisville -1.5 and Manhattan +5. – 2/27

Saturday’s Top Play: Wofford +1. – 2/26

Friday’s College Hoops Predictions: Our strongest play of the day is Cornell getting +10 at Princeton. Secondary plays include Brown +8, Columbia +6 and Siena +9. – 2/25

Thursday Plays: Looking to bounce back after an absolutely miserable day yesterday. Today we like Arkansas State at -5, Eastern Washington -2.5, Sacramento State +7.5 and Portland State at +6. – 2/24

Wednesday NCAA Basketball Picks: We like quite a few games today! We believe that Charlotte at +6.5 presents the most value on Wednesday’s card. The second strongest game we like is Nebraska laying 1.5 at home vs. Kansas State. Other games we like that don’t have as much value as the two previous games listed, but that are still worth a shot are: NC Wilmington +1.5, Ball State -7.5, St. Josephs +6, Texas Tech +1, Indiana +5, and Tennessee Chattanooga at +5. – 2/23

Tuesday College Roundball Picks: Our best bet of the day is Idaho State at +5 at home vs. Weber State. We believe this line is off by 3.2 points. We’ve also got a small handful of 1st half under plays that we like: LaSalle/Xavier UNDER 72.5, Indiana St/Northern Iowa UNDER 58.5 and Weber St/Idaho St. UNDER 65. Good luck! – 2/22

Monday College Basketball Predictions: Syracuse/Villanova 1st half UNDER 63, Oklahoma State/Kansas 1st half UNDER 68, Tennessee Chat +3.5 and Prairie View A&M -3.- 2/21

Sunday NCAA Basketball Pick: Duke -11.5 for the 1st half vs. G.T. – 2/20

Saturday’s NCAA Hoops Play of the Day: Loyola Marymount at -1.5 to cover on the road at Porltand St. – 2/19

Friday College Hoops Plays: Brown +2 (can be found at +2.5 at some books). – 2/18

***BEST BET ALERT*** Late release at 5:45PM EST: Golden Gophers/Nittany Lions 1st half UNDER 58. Our scoring model shows that the 1st half total should be around 52.

Thursday Plays: North Carolina State at +2.5 at home vs. Clemson. – 2/17

Wednesday’s College Hoops Pick of the Day: S. Fla/Pit UNDER 59.5 points in the 1st half. – 2/16

Tuesday NCAA BKB Pick: Bradley Braves at +2.5. – 2/15

Monday College Hoops Pick of the Day: Kansas Jayhawks -5.5. – 2/14

Friday February 11th through Sunday February 13th: We’re taking a much needed “post football season” break. We’ll resume posting on Monday. Enjoy your weekend! – 2/11 through 2/13

Thursday NCAA Hoops Selections: UL Monroe +4, Santa Clara +6 and Weber St. -1.5. – 2/10

Wednesday College Basketball Picks: Georgetown +4.5, South Florida +6 and Virginnia Commonwealth/Delaware 1st half UNDER 62.5. – 2/9

Tuesday College Basketball BEST BET: Evansville (pickem) to beat. N. Iowa. – 2/8

Monday NCAA Hoops Prediction: Tennessee Tech +4. – 2/7

Super Bowl Sunday: Passing! – 2/6

Sat NCAA Basketball Play of the Day: LaSalle at +1 at home to take down the Dayton Flyers. – 2/5

Friday College Basketball Selection: Princeton at -2 to cover at home vs. Harvard. – 2/4

Thursday NCAA Hoops Selection: The Citadel +3.5. Other plays with good value include: Loyola Chicago +5.5, San Diego +5, Portland +4.5 and Northern Arizona -8.5. – 2/3

Wednesday’s College Basketball Best Bet: Elon 1st half -1.5. – 2/2

Tuesday: Air Force at +3.5 to cover at home vs. the New Mexico Lobos. – 2/1

Monday Selections: Texas A&M +1.5, Canisius +10 and Northern Arizona at -3.5. – 1/31

Sunday NCAA Basketball Plays: Seton Hall -4, Georgia Tech +3 and Missouri State -7. – 1/30

Saturday College Basketball Picks: (Listed in order of how much we like them) Weber State +1, Eastern Washington -5, Portland +5.5, Georgia State +4.5, Iowa State -9.5, NC Greensboro +5.5, Tenn Chat -1. – 1/29

Friday Play: Siena at +3.5. – 1/28

Thursday NCAA Basketball Predictions: Our best bet for Thurs. is Sacramento State at a pickem at home vs. Idaho State. We believe the line is off by as many as 6 points. Another great matchup that we like is Arkansas State laying -10.5 vs. UL Monroe. Our handicapping shows that Arky St. should actually be favored by 21 in this game, giving us huge value. We also like Michigan State at -10.5 at home vs. Michigan. We’re forecasting this line to be off by 4-8+ points. Lastly, we like Pepperdine at +2.5 at home vs. Santa Clara. We actually think that Pepperdine should be favored by 1 to 2 here. – 1/27

Wednesday College Hoops: Our best bet of the day is The Citadel getting +9 on the road at Davidson. We’re expecting a final margin of 5 points or less here. We also like Providence getting +5.5 at home vs. Villanova, East Carolina getting +2.5 at home vs. So. Miss and lastly we like New Mexico laying -12.5 at home vs. TCU. – 1/26

Tuesday CBB Selection: Today we like Toledo at +5 to cover at home vs. Bowling Green (and possibly win straight up). We also like the Florida Gators at +2.5 on the road at Georgia. – 1/25

Monday College Basketball Pick: We like Idaho State at +2.5 at home against Montana State tonight. – 1/24

Sunday College Hoops Play: Central Michigan at +2.5. – 1/23

Saturday College Hoops Plays: Vandy -5, Notre Dame -3, San Francisco +9, Pepperdine -1.5, Washington State -2.5, Portland State +2. – 1/22

Friday Selection: Siena +2. – 1/21

Thursday College Hoops Plays: Wisconsin -13.5, Idaho State +8.5, Eastern Washington +6.5, and Detroit +9.5. – 1/20

Wednesday NCAA Basketball Pick: We like Xavier at -5 to beat up on St. Bonaventure today. Xavier has pretty much “owned” the Bonnies in past matchups. We expect a 10+ point win here. We also like Indiana State getting +3.5 at home vs. Missouri State and Purdue laying -13 against the Nittany Lions. This is a BAD matchup for PSU. – 1/19

Tuesday College Hoops Selection: Northwestern -3.5 for the first half. – 1/18

Monday College Basketball Picks: Villanova +2.5, Missouri -5, Kansas -4 and NC Greensboro +10.5. – 1/17

Sunday College Hoops Predictions: We like St. Bonavenutre at +7.5 on the road at Rhode Island. We also like Miami-Ohio at -1 to knock off Bowling Green. – 1/16

Saturday Colleege Basketball Pick: Take the Iowa State Cyclones at a pickem to beat the Baylor Bears. We also like New Mexico at +1 to knock off SD St. as well. – 1/15

Friday: Short card, passing. – 1/14

Thursday NCAA Hoops Pick: Boise State +2.5. – 1/13

Wednesday Prediction: UNLV at +5.5. – 1/12

Tuesday NCAA Hoops: Texas Tech +7. – 1/11

Monday: Short card. No value; Passing! – 1/10

Sunday College Hoops Play: Ohio St. -15.5. – 1/9

Saturday NCAA Hoops Picks: We like the Portland Pilots at +12.5 A LOT. We also like NC Greensboro getting +3.5 and Washington at -20. – 1/8

Friday NCAA Hoops Pick: Take Cleveland State at +6 to cover and possibly win straight up at Butler. Good luck! – 1/7

Thursday College Basketball Picks: Take NC Greensboro at +4.5 to cover at home vs. Samford. We also like Sacramento State at +6 to cover at home vs. Montana State. Good luck! – 1/6

Wednesday NCAA Basketball Pick: Take the Harvard Crimson at +9 to cover vs. the Boston College Eagles. You might also want to consider putting 10% of your normal bet size on the moneyline at +380 as this is a LIVE dog! – 1/5

Tuesday College Hoops Selection: Providence Friars at +6 vs. Pitt. – 1/4

Monday NCAA Basketball Featured Pick: St. Johns Red Storm to cover +2.5 at home vs. the Georgetown Hoyas. – 1/3

Sunday College Hoops Play: Miami Hurricanes at +18.5 to cover vs. Duke. – 1/2