College Basketball Player Props & Best Bets Today: Schedule, Picks for Wednesday

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15 November 2023

Thirty-seven gamesinvolving Division I teams highlight am action-packed mid-week college basketballslate, and we have you covered with our daily college basketball player propsand best bets for Wednesday based on the best college basketball odds.

There is just one AP top 25 team in action tonight as No. 19Texas hosts in-state rival Rice. And after plenty of high-profile Gavitt TipoffGames between Big East and Big Ten teams took place on Monday and Tuesday, theonly one on Wednesday’s slate is from New Jersey as Rutgers hosts Georgetown.The Big East leads the challenge, 3-2, after sweeping all three tilts yesterday.

Here are our college basketball player props and best bets for Wednesday (odds via our best March Madness betting sites; pick confidence based on a 1-to-5-star scale).

Wednesday’s college basketball schedule and odds

(Odds via DraftKings)

Campbell vs. Virginia Tech (-18.5)
Richmond vs. Boston College (-3.5)
Merrimack vs. Ohio State (-20.5)
Georgetown vs. Rutgers (-9.5)
Rice vs. Texas (-18.5)
Pacific vs. Nevada (-12.5)

Wednesday’s college basketball best bets

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Wednesday’s college basketball props

Pacific “Race to 10 Points - 1st half” vs. Nevada (+215 viaDraftKings) ⭐⭐⭐

Nevada is a rightful 12.5-point favorite in this matchup, especially since it won 14 of its 15 home games a year ago. And while the Wolf Pack won impressively 83-76 on the road at Washington on Sunday, we are not overvaluing them too much based on that win, as the Huskies are still getting used to playing exclusively man-to-man defense instead of the usual 2-3 zone under head coach Mike Hopkins.

Pacific can do some things early to surprise Nevada, especially with its ability to space the floor against a typically compact Wolf Pack defense.

The Tigers have two terrific guards in Moe Odum and Tyler Beard, who are adept at getting into the lane, and Pacific ranked in the 99th percentile in catch-and-shoot efficiency, per Synergy, last year. The Tigers are an undersized backcourt, and Nevada’s perimeter length should eventually disrupt their rhythm. Still, we expect Pacific to come out swinging tonight, especially since it defends the 3-point line so well (23.1% allowed through two games).

bet365 offers a “Race to 20 Points” wager at +265 odds for Pacific, but it is more difficult for the underdog to lead for that long, and we instead find more value in comparable odds for the Tigers to be the first to score 10 points.

Texas to beat Rice by 21-25 points (+550 via DraftKings) ⭐⭐⭐

DraftKings offers many different winningmargin wagers, and this particular one can be found under the “Winning Margin -12 Way” option.

Texas is a 20.5-point favorite over Ricein this game, so if the oddsmakers are on the money with this line, as they sooften are, we could be looking at a massive payday if the Longhorns cover.

The Longhorns trailed at halftimeagainst Rice last year and had to squeak out an 87-81 win in overtime. However,we are taking that result with a grain of salt, as interim head coach RodneyTerry was unexpectedly thrust into that role for his first game following ChrisBeard’s arrest.

Rice is coming off a 13-point home lossto Harvard, and its lack of depth showed (the Owls rank 313th with just 23.2%of its minutes from the bench) as it was outscored by seven points over thefinal 10 minutes. Look for Texas to use its size and athleticism to get Rice’skey players in foul trouble and eventually wear down the Owls en route to acover.

We are getting plenty of value makingthis wager at DraftKings compared to bet365, as the latter offers a muchsmaller payout (+400) for the same bet.

Wednesday’s college basketball game picks

Stony Brook-Nebraska Under 140.5 (-110 via FanDuel, Caesars,DraftKings, bet365) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Nebraska got a huge lift offensively with the return of Keisei Tominaga, a preseason All-Big Ten nominee who averaged 13.1 points per game last season. Tominaga missed the first two games of the season with an ankle injury and he was rusty, going 3-for-13 from the field on Monday against Rider. If Tominaga is not consistently stretching the defense, Nebraska’s offensive ceiling is much lower, and it will need to continue to hang its hat on defense to win games early.

In the Cornhuskers’ first-ever 3-0 start under head coach Fred Hoiberg, they have had double-figure scoring runs in each game and held their toughest opponent to date (Rider) scoreless for over nine minutes in the second half Monday. Thus, Stony Brook does not figure to get much off the offensive glass tonight, especially after Nebraska out-rebounded a Rider team that ranked in the top 40 last year in rebounding margin by 13.

Stony Brook has allowed an average of 87.5 points in its two games against D-I competition this year (St. John’s and Duquesne). Still, Nebraska ranks just 175th in effective field goal percentage, and it should keep this game low-scoring on the strength of a top-four effective field goal percentage defense.

Bettors have their choice of a number of our best sports betting sites for this wager, but all provide better value than the O/U of 139.5 found at BetMGM.

Rutgers -8.5 vs. Georgetown (-112 via DraftKings) ⭐⭐⭐

If you have not watched Rutgers play at home at Jersey Mike’s Arena(formerly known as the RAC), it is one of the most intimidating venues thatgoes largely under the radar. The Scarlet Knights have knocked off a slew ofranked opponents at home over the last several years, and they have covered thespread in 61.9% (13-8 ATS) of their home games since the start of last season.

Georgetown has a different face on the sidelines in new head coach EdCooley. However, its last result was reminiscent of Patrick Ewing’s regime,where the Hoyas went 75-109 in six years, as the team blew an 11-point lead ina loss to Holy Cross. Georgetown is securing its own misses at a 38.7% clip(45th-best in the country), but Rutgers has out-rebounded its last twoopponents by 20 and 17 and should negate one of the Hoyas’ biggest earlystrengths. The Scarlet Knights have not topped 69 points in any game thisseason, but we expect them to grind out a low-scoring win on their home floor.

The line movement has gone slightly away from the Scarlet Knights, whosespread was -9 or -9.5 last night. However, we do not see this line plummetingmuch further and are taking advantage of the best price at DraftKings, asFanDuel comparatively charges -120 odds to back the favorites at -8.5.

College basketball best bets made 11/15/2023 at 6:41 a.m. ET