January 17 NCAA Basketball Picks

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.

Louisiana Tech at Old Dominion:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Old Dominion -5 (5/5) — LOSS!
Total Prediction/Full Game: UNDER 130 points (4/5) — WIN!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: 
Side Prediction/1st Half: Old Dominion -2.5 (3/5) — WIN!
Total Prediction/1st Half: OVER 60.5 points (3/5) — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st Half: 

Northern Kentucky at Cleveland State:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Northern Kentucky -9 (3/5) — WIN!
Total Prediction/Full Game: OVER 144.5 points (5/5) — WIN!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: 
Side Prediction/1st Half: Northern Kentucky -5 (4/5) — WIN!
Total Prediction/1st Half: OVER 70 points (3/5) — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st Half: 

Today’s Record: 7-1-0 (.875)
Previous Day’s Record: 5-6-0 (.455)
January Record 84-73-1 (.535)
December Record 86-62-5 (.578)
November Record: 81-91-6 (.472)
Season Record: 251-226-12 (.526)

1-Star Pick Record: 0-0 (.000)             (0-0-0 (.000) in January)
2-Star Pick Record: 0-0 (.000)             (1-1-0 (.500) in January)
3-Star Pick Record: 4-0 (1.000)           (43-36-1 (.544) in January)
4-Star Pick Record: 2-0 (1.000)           (21-17-0 (.553) in January)
5-Star Pick Record: 1-1 (.500)             (19-19-0 (.500) in January)