These are the condensed versions of picks for Thursday’s college basketball games for Winners and Whiners. A link to the full preview is below, and confidence ratings are in parentheses.
Note: The 5/5 does not represent the best overall pick of the day’s games when there are multiple games, simply the best pick of each individual game.
Side Prediction/Full Game: Iowa State -2.5 (2/5) — LOSS!
Total Prediction/Full Game: Over 152.5 points (4/5) — WIN!
Prop Prediction/Full Game:
Side Prediction/1st Half: Iowa State -1 (5/5) — LOSS!
Total Prediction/1st Half: Over 73.5 points (3/5) — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st Half:
Previous Day’s Record: 2-2 (.500)
December Record 24-18-2 (.568)
November Record: 81-91-6 (.472)
Season Record: 105-109-8 (.491)
1-Star Pick Record: 0-0 (.000) (0-0 (.000) in December)
2-Star Pick Record: 0-1 (.000) (0-1 (.000) in December)
3-Star Pick Record: 1-0 (1.000) (10-10-1 (.500) in December)
4-Star Pick Record: 1-0 (.000) (7-3-1 (.682) in December)
5-Star Pick Record: 0-1 (.000) (7-4-0 (.636) in December)