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A big one is set to go down from Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Thursday night when the No. 13 ranked Ohio State Buckeyes pay Iowa City a visit to run with Luka Garza and the No. 7 ranked Iowa Hawkeyes. This is a legit battle of Top-15 ranked teams with Chris Holtmann’s kids ranked No. 10 per the current Pomeroy Ratings and Fran McCaffery’s troops clocking in at No. 5 with the latter the highest ranked B1G team in the nation. That said, the Buckeyes enter this tilt the hotter team having logged wins in... 

The No. 10 Texas Tech Red Raiders could possibly return home from their trip to Baton Rouge for their SEC/Big 12 Challenge matchup with LSU losers of three straight. Should that be the case, college hoops bettors will be lining up in droves to get a piece of Chris Beard’s squad on Big Monday thinking there’s no shot the team drops four in a row as competitive a brand of ball the team’s been playing of late. However, Lon Kruger’s No. 24 ranked Oklahoma Sooners have been playing some lights ball o... 

Having just put an end to a two-game losing streak from seemingly out of nowhere, the No. 18 Tennessee Volunteers will attempt to rattle off a second straight victory on Saturday evening when they welcome the No. 15 ranked Kansas Jayhawks into Rocky Top for a fourth meeting between the two schools in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge. Recent losing streaks finds each club well off the pace of the top team in their respective conference title races, but each knows full well a win would do wonders for the ... 

The Duke Blue Devils will be out to snare a second straight win on Saturday afternoon when the Clemson Tigers come a calling looking to build off a nice win over Louisville earlier in the week. The Dookies got off the schneid as well last time out against Georgia Tech. Both teams currently find themselves in a jumbled mess sitting in the middle of the ACC standings. With this being the lone regular season meeting between the two squads, the pressure will be on for each to succeed and improve upo... 

It’s been a down year for basketball in the ACC, but don’t tell that to the Virginia Cavaliers. Improving to 5-0 in conference play with a rout of Clemson, the Cavs continue their quest for another regular season league title when they host the Syracuse Orange on Monday night. Both programs have dealt with canceled and postponed games due to COVID, but the Cavs have fared better taking a five-game winning streak into the weekend. And the team known for its smothering defense has suddenly become ... 

A good one is set to go down in Omaha on Saturday afternoon when Marcus Zegarowski and the No. 11 ranked Creighton Bluejays attempt to snap their first two-game losing streak of the season against the No. 23 ranked UConn Huskies. Connecticut saw its four-game win streak get snapped at online sportsbooks last time out in a tough home loss to a St. John’s squad that climbed over .500 with the victory. They’ll now put their unblemished 3-0 SU and ATS true road marks on the line in their first-ever ... 

Though the Duke Blue Devils don’t look to be cut from the same cloth as prior Coach K teams, the KFC YUM! Center will undoubtedly still be rocking when the Louisville Cardinals welcome them in for a Saturday afternoon tip. Much will be on the line for both squads with each looking to put an end to respective two-game losing streaks that saw both squads fall as short favorites. The Dookies fell earlier in the week at PITT as 4.5-point road chalk, while the Ville got embarrassed by the Florida Sta... 

It’s not quite the matchup we envisioned at the start of Big 12 play but it’s a doozy nonetheless. The Kansas Jayhawks look to climb back to the top of the standings when they visit the No. 2 Baylor Bears on Monday night. The Jayhawks are two games back in the loss column and their run of conference titles will be in jeopardy if they lose this game. Baylor has dealt with a number of postponements and cancellations and is still unbeaten after dropping the hammer on TCU. Both teams have a schedule... 

The No. 8 Creighton Bluejays go for their seventh straight win when they tangle with the struggling Butler Bulldogs in a Big East tilt on Saturday. On paper this game looks like a rout. But as we know the games aren’t played on paper. Still, the way Creighton dismantled its last two opponents should be frightening for the Bulldogs, who have dropped two straight and four of their last five. The Big East contest will air live on FS1 at 4 p.m. ET on Saturday, January 16, 2021 from Hinkle Fieldhouse... 

You can get into action early on Sunday before the NFL kicks off with college hoops action on FOX, as the Providence Friars visit the Xavier Musketeers. The Friars come into this game at 7-4 overall and 3-2 in the Big East, while the Musketeers are 9-2 and 2-2 in the Big East. Keep in mind that this game has an early tip-off of 11 a.m. Eastern Time on Sunday. Let’s look at the game between the Friars and Musketeers and college basketball picks.... 

The Big 12 leading Texas Longhorns put their undefeated conference record on the line when they face the West Virginia Mountaineers in a top-15 tilt on Saturday. There’s never an easy game in the Big 12. The Longhorns climbed to No. 4 in the national rankings after walloping Kansas then had to hold off last place Iowa State to improve to 3-0 in league play. The Mountaineers are just 2-2 in conference action, but they’re always a tough out, especially on their home court.... 

It’s early in the Big Ten season but the Michigan state Spartans are sitting at the bottom of the standings after losing their first three league games. To say they are in desperate need of a victory would be an understatement. Considering how stacked the conference is it might be tough for the Spartans to make up ground. They could get a jolt of confidence by knocking off the Rutgers Scarlet Knights when the teams get together on Tuesday. Rutgers is perched near the top of the standings having ... 

It’s an early Big 12 top-10 test for the Texas Longhorns and Kansas Jayhawks when the 1-loss teams square off at Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday. As long as No. 3 Kansas doesn’t have to play the No. 1 ranked team in the country they’ll do just fine. The Jayhawks have won eight straight since losing their opener to top-ranked Gonzaga. Half of those wins came against ranked opponents, including a decisive win over No. 7 West Virginia last time out. The schedule hasn’t been nearly as difficult for the... 

Mike Krzyzewski has openly questioned why the college basketball season started amid the COVID pandemic. Maybe he knows something the rest of us don’t. Or quite possibly he realizes his Duke Blue Devils need some seasoning. It’s been an uncharacteristic slow start for Duke alternating wins and losses over their first five games to go 3-2. The Blue Devils look for their first winning streak of the season when they visit the No. 18 Florida State Seminoles in an ACC tilt on Saturday. The Dookies lo... 

One of the best rivalries in college basketball gets another chapter on Saturday, as the Kentucky Wildcats visit the Louisville Cardinals on ESPN. The Wildcats enter this came as a complete mess, as they are 1-5 SU and 2-4 ATS and on a five-game losing streak, the longest under head coach John Calipari. It might not get any better against a Louisville team that would like nothing better than to kick the Wildcats while they are down. Let’s look at the game between the Wildcats and Cardinals and c... 

It is a matchup of top teams in college hoops on Saturday, as the No. 3 Iowa Hawkeyes take on the No. 1 Gonzaga Bulldogs in a neutral site game in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on ESPN. Both teams come into this game unbeaten, as the Hawkeyes are 6-0, while the Bulldogs are 3-0. It should be a high scoring contest, as Iowa is second in the country, averaging 100.5 points per game, while Gonzaga is 10th in the nation, averaging 93 points per contest. Let’s look at the game between the Hawkeyes and Bu... 

It is a matchup of Top 20 teams in college hoops on Wednesday night, as the Michigan State Spartans take on the Virginia Cavaliers in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. The Spartans come into this game with the higher ranking and the better record, but Virginia will have the home court edge. Let’s look at the game between the Spartans and Cavaliers and college basketball picks.... 

We get a matchup between No. 1 and No. 2 in college hoops on Saturday, as the second-ranked Baylor Bears take on the top-ranked Gonzaga Bulldogs. This game will take place on a neutral floor and be televised by CBS. It should be a high scoring affair, as both teams have potent offenses that have looked unstoppable so far this season and each team has future NBA players leading their team. Let’s look at the game between the Bears and Bulldogs and college basketball picks.... 

We didn’t get a proper conclusion to last season so why not open the new campaign with a pair of teams that many felt had a shot at winning the national championship a season ago. Amid all the cancellations and postponements before the college basketball season even gets underway, the matchup between the Kansas Jayhawks and Gonzaga Bulldogs is still on the ticket. And it’s going to be a good one. Kansas ended last season as the No. 1 team in the country with the Zags a close second. With an emba... 

The Cincinnati Bearcats have won the American Athletic Conference Tournament each of the last two seasons, but Kelvin Sampson’s Houston Cougars are the choice of the linemakers to cut the nets down in Dickies Arena this time around. Should that turn out to be the case, it would be the first AAC tourney win for the Cougars in program history. The truth of the matter i... 

The Auburn Tigers snapped the Kentucky Wildcats four-year reign in the SEC Tournament last season. Linemakers expect both squads to have a say in how this year’s edition plays out with the Wildcats currently installed the odds on +175 favorites to win it all with the Tigers right behind them at +275. Each earned the double-bye along with LSU and Mississippi State whi... 

The Pac-12 Tournament has been dominated by the Oregon Ducks and Arizona Wildcats dating back to 2013. The UCLA Bruins are the only other school to win it during that stretch. The Ducks ended the Wildcats 2-year reign last season to win it for the second time in the last four years. Unsurprisingly, Dana Altman’s and Sean Miller’s squads are currently installed the favorites to cut the nets down in Sin City this time around as well. With two of the best point guards in the conference leading each team’s respective attack, that comes as no surprise. What is a surprise however is the value a number of teams that closed the season out hot are getting from linemakers at online sportsbooks. Let’s put the futures odds under the microscope and see if we can’t weed out some big ticket winners in hopes of bolstering the bankroll for next week’s Madness! ... 

It feels as if the entire B1G will be partaking in the NCAA Tournament next week. While that’s a gross overstatement, it still feels that way. As it stands right now, only Northwestern and Nebraska have absolutely no shot to partake in the Big Dance provided they don’t shock the college basketball betting community and win the Big Ten Tournament. Linemakers believe this tournament to be the Michigan State Spartans for the taking. Remember, Sparty opened the regular season as the No. 1 team in the nation only to fall out of that spot immediately. Right in back of them is the other co-winner of the regular season title in the Maryland Terrapins. Surprisingly, Wisconsin slots in back of them along with a Michigan team that online sportsbooks seem to be very high on regardless of its mediocre regular season outputs. As great the talent is up and down the league, the B1G Tournament has the capability to be one of the more wildly entertaining of the conference tourney season. Because of it, you might want to take some chances on the betting lines! ... 

Though there ended up being a three-team tie atop the regular season rankings, the Seton Hall Pirates are currently the choice of linemakers at online sportsbooks to cut the nets down at the conclusion of the Big East Tournament. A very surprising stance considering Kevin Willard’s squad fell to both Creighton and Villanova to close the regular season which ultimately cost them the outright title. Speaking of Jay Wright’s Wildcats, they’re the current 3-time champs and will be gunning for the pr... 

It’s likely fool’s gold thinking any team other than Obi Toppin and the Dayton Flyers cut the nets down in the Barclays Center to take the A10’s auto bid into next week’s NCAA Tournament. Anthony Grant’s squad did nothing but kick ass and take names over the course of the regular season by putting forth a clean sheet in conference play. There were some close calls however; with the A10 tourney taking place on a neutral court, anything can happen. With that, let’s put the futures odds under the microscope and see what online sportsbooks have to offer to see if we can’t fatten up the bankroll for next week’s Big Dance by hooking our wagon to a couple of big dogs if not running with the chalk over the next week! ...