College Basketball Picks For November 13th – NCAA Basketball Banter & Best Bets Recap
The College Basketball Experience (@TCEonSGPN) on the Sports Gambling Podcast breaks down every game on the College Basketball slate on Friday, November 13th. Colby Dant (@TheColbyD) and Noah Bieniek (@NoahB77_) discuss their favorite games and give out their best bets.
Colby Dant (@thecolbyd) and Noah Bieniek (@NoahB77_) go through the college basketball picks for November 13th, fresh off Colby’s 12-3 night on his locks against the spread. Both of them love Georgetown on the moneyline at Clemson, and Noah Bieniek adds Iona plus 7.5 at Hofstra.
A 12-3 Night And The Game Balls
Colby Dant came in hot. The record was 12 and 3 against the spread on 15 locks, and the winners got read off before the game balls even started. UMKC covered easily at +13.5 against George Mason. Canisius was a double-digit dog and won outright, 86-81 over Brown. Mercer also cashed at +26.5 against a West Virginia team that got called overrated. Then UC Riverside beat San José State outright as an 8.5-point dog. Southern +25.5 was one of the misses, because they lost by 30. Noah Bieniek went 5 and 1, mostly by tailing plays after starting the night with one bet of his own.
The first game ball went to Texas A&M, which handled Oklahoma State by roughly 19 in a revenge spot. Noah Bieniek liked the defense most, because holding a Steve Lutz team under 70 passes the eye test. Oklahoma State also went just 6 of 30 from deep. So the Aggies now look like a tournament team on the right side of the bubble. He had slotted them around 10th or 11th in the SEC. Colby Dant countered with Canisius. The Golden Griffins lost by about 50 to the Bonnies a few nights earlier. But the Hiram game sold the lock, and they won outright.
Western Michigan got the next game ball. Rob Lee played only 17 minutes with four fouls, and the team still out-rebounded Purdue Fort Wayne 38 to 23. Noah Bieniek calls them under the radar. He also thinks they could be 7 and 2 entering MAC play, with a full 22-game round robin waiting. Then Colby Dant pointed to UC Riverside, now 3-0 after winning at San José State. Riverside shot 46% from three, and Tony Duckett went for 22 points. The Bieniek view is still a bottom-half Big West team. But the 8.5 points turned into an outright win, and that counts.
Five Dragons Playing 40 Minutes Apiece
The best find of the night was not a game ball at all. Coastal Carolina hosted Virginia Lynchburg, a D3 program, and the Dragons played five guys for 40 minutes each. That was their third game in three days, after trips to The Citadel on Tuesday and Western Carolina on Wednesday. They had eight players against Morehead State on November 5th, so nobody knows where the rest went. Their schedule also has only two home games on campus, and they went 0 and 26 last season. Colby Dant still wants a futures ticket on them, because you have to suck at life before you get good.
King Rice and Monmouth earned a ball after getting drilled by St. John’s and Rhode Island. Monmouth held Quinnipiac to 3 for 15 from three. Southern Illinois then beat Richmond 80-70 as a dog. The Salukis went 28 for 28 at the line, while Richmond only got there 15 times. Damian Mayo had 25 and six assists, and Jalen Haynes added 23. Finally, UTEP won the Battle of I-10 despite going 8 of 30 from three and 38% from the field. Cam McDaniels put up 22 points and 5 boards, so Joe Golding got his rivalry win.
UMKC, The Summit Poll And A Valley Dark Horse
A chat question asked whether UMKC can win the Summit. Colby Dant would not be shocked, pointing to Oral Roberts and Omaha winning it without being projected to. Noah Bieniek has the Jacks instead, because South Dakota State returned three guards. Then he pulled up this year’s preseason poll. UMKC was picked eighth out of eight by the league’s coaches, SIDs and select media. North Dakota State was picked first, and he expects them to tumble. History backs that up, since Omaha was picked eighth of nine the year it won. Being the preseason favorite in this league is close to a kiss of death.
Bradley also drew heat after beating Coppin State by two. Coppin held a halftime lead, and the Braves scored only 56 points, which Noah Bieniek called the real red flag. He still trusts Wardle to have them better by conference play. On the Valley dark horse, Colby Dant leans Illinois State, with the race open after Jacobson left for Utah State. The Bieniek preseason pick to win it was UIC, but Murray State now looks a step above. So his dark horse is Indiana State under Graves, a team that went 11 and 21 last year amid real turmoil.
College Basketball Picks November 13th: The Early Locks
The slate opened with a double lock. Cleveland State lays 3.5 against West Florida, and the Argos just lost by two in overtime the night before. Colby Dant likes getting that game under their belt, while Cleveland State did all the traveling. Noah Bieniek had the same angle, so both took the Argos money line at +150 for a 3 p.m. Eastern tip. Then came Georgetown at Clemson, with Carter Welling and Zach Foster out for the Tigers. Ed Cooley beat Clemson in DC a year ago. The Hoyas money line sat at +165, and that was an easy yes.
Noah Bieniek called the Georgetown spot a classic sandwich. The Hoyas beat Maryland, then only got by Delaware State by six, and now Cooley gets them up again. That made it another double lock. Pitt at Butler followed. Colby Dant has watched Butler twice and does not think they are any good. The Boise game, where Boise went wire to wire and scored 100, also still sticks. Capel is the more capable coach with the better-structured roster. So both backed the Panthers at +3.5, taking the points because it could be a one-possession game.
Chattanooga at Elon started as a question mark. Elon lays 2.5, but Chattanooga went toe to toe with Louisville for long stretches and lost to Penn State by four. Noah Bieniek calls the Mocs a wild card under Dan Earl. He also thinks the wrong team is favored, so the guys simply added Chattanooga to the card. Then Ohio caught 19.5 at Purdue, and that became a double lock. Purdue lost outright to Valpo and needed every second to beat Illinois State by 17. Ohio also got its Iowa State transfer cleared. Colby Dant has Purdue winning by 12.
Double Locks On Long Island And Georgia
Long Island catches 13.5 at Fordham, and Colby Dant took the number personally. LIU just beat Iona by around four, so 13.5 in a cross-city game felt like disrespect. Noah Bieniek was already betting it. LIU is coming off its worst game, only 46 points against Towson. So he sees a bounce-back where they lose by around six. That made it a double lock. A money line sprinkle also got added on the Long Island side, because the guys think this number is simply too many points for a team playing this well.
Georgia at North Carolina might be the game Colby Dant attends this weekend. The Bulldogs get 4.5 at the Dean Dome, and they earned a double lock plus a money line sprinkle. Carolina looked iffy against Western Carolina and lost the boards 43 to 37 to Wyoming. Noah Bieniek has hammered that point, because this UNC team is vulnerable on the glass. Mike White teams crash it, too. His last two Georgia tournament teams ranked 49th and 18th in offensive rebounding. Georgia might even have the more athletic starting five, which is a strange thing to say about these two programs.
Yale -1.5 against Northeastern got locked as well. Northeastern is off an overtime rivalry win over Harvard, and Yale was competitive at UCF before Baylor smoked them. Iona at Hofstra is the favorite dog for Noah Bieniek. Hofstra lost Cruz Davis and Preston Edmeade, then blew a 15-point lead late against Princeton. So he wants Iona with the points and the money line at +265. Colby Dant was sold. Then in UConn against Ohio State, he locked the under 148.5, with 146.5 already showing at Circa and UConn playing its first game in Hartford.
The Late Board Gets Loaded
Illinois State -2.5 at North Dakota State is a double lock. Bakersfield just drilled North Dakota State, and St. Mary’s beat them by 41 after needing overtime against the Redbirds. KenPom also has Illinois State around six, and the number is climbing at sharper books. Virginia and Maryland then produced the night’s lock battle. Colby Dant grew up in the area and is on Maryland’s money line, parlayed with Georgetown. Noah Bieniek watched Virginia beat his Arkansas bet and is locking the Wahoos. Georgia Southern +23.5 at UCF is another double lock, because the Eagles should keep it within 18.
Xavier -3.5 against Mississippi State at the Greenbrier is a double lock too. Xavier fans might actually make the drive, and nobody from Starkville is going. Arizona -2.5 at Auburn got the same treatment, since Steven Pearl is 8 and 16 straight up against power conference teams. DePaul -1.5 at Northwestern is a revenge double lock, and the line opened with Northwestern favored by 1.5. Then Idaho -1.5 against Cal Poly got locked as a system play. Noah Bieniek likes an older Vandals roster against that run-and-gun system, and the altitude in Moscow should help.
Several games stayed leans. Wright State -1.5 at Samford smelled off, with KenPom at four and ones showing at Circa and Pinnacle. So both picked Wright State and stayed away. FDU +32.5 at Oklahoma was a points lean, because the Sooners are 0 and 3 against numbers like this. Bryant +23.5 at Rutgers also got the no-bet treatment. Mid-majors getting anything in the 20s usually deserve the points, unless they are truly bad. Mount St. Mary’s +29.5 at Virginia Tech landed in the same spot, since the Hokies could also win by 35.
Colby Dant also locked three long dogs. Chicago State gets 13.5 at San Diego off a 20-point win, with the money line around +750. UIC gets 6.5 at St. Mary’s, and Noah Bieniek wants the money line at +230 because UIC can muck up a faster St. Mary’s team. Then Arkansas-Pine Bluff gets 18.5 at Cal Baptist. They lost 106-37 to UCLA, but Cal Baptist is no good either. Bieniek stayed off Chicago State and Pine Bluff, but he promised to root for the second one.
Top Three Plays And The Dog
Colby Dant closed with Georgetown, Long Island and Georgia Southern as the top three. The dog is the Georgetown and Maryland money line parlay, with Chattanooga as an add-on. Noah Bieniek went with Xavier on the neutral floor first, because Mississippi State has no identity and just gave up 88 to Tennessee Tech. Yale -1.5 is second, since Northeastern is off that overtime rivalry win. Iona +7.5 is third, with a sprinkle on the +265 money line. Then his money line play is Georgetown at +150 against a Clemson team that has played with its food all season.
Podcast Chapters
00:00 Download the SGPN App Today!
00:59 College Basketball Experience Friday Preview
06:53 12 and 3 ATS Night
10:26 Ball Busting and Go-Karts
15:26 Game Balls
23:00 Virginia Lynchburg Dragons Storyline
28:39 Southern Illinois and Battle of I-10
35:26 UMKC, Summit League Preseason Poll & Valley Dark Horse
50:29 Cleveland State vs. West Florida Picks
53:44 Texas A&M Corpus Christi vs. Florida State Picks
58:36 North Alabama vs. Miami Picks
1:00:10 Georgetown vs. Clemson Picks
1:03:56 Bryant vs. Rutgers Picks
1:08:17 Pittsburgh vs. Butler Picks
1:11:09 Tennessee State vs. Tennessee Picks
1:13:10 Harvard vs. George Washington Picks
1:15:05 Mount St. Mary’s vs. Virginia Tech Picks
1:16:13 Chattanooga vs. Elon Picks
1:21:44 Ohio vs. Purdue Picks
1:24:05 Columbia vs. Bucknell Picks
1:29:48 Prairie View vs. Vandy Picks
1:31:34 Northern Arizona vs. Kentucky Picks
1:33:21 Sam Houston vs. Illinois Picks
1:34:43 Merrimack vs. Florida Picks
1:36:32 Long Island vs. Fordham Picks
1:38:37 Georgia vs. North Carolina Picks
1:42:42 Yale vs. Northeastern Picks
1:44:50 Troy vs. NC State Picks
1:45:44 FIU vs. Gulf Coast Picks
1:47:56 Northern Iowa vs. Michigan State Picks
1:50:01 App State vs. Charlotte Picks
1:52:57 Iona vs. Hofstra Picks
1:54:56 Marist vs. Lehigh Picks
1:55:45 North Carolina Central vs. Liberty Picks
1:56:39 Ohio State vs. UConn Picks
1:58:29 South Dakota vs. Drake Picks
1:59:40 SEMO vs. Middle Tennessee Picks
2:00:32 Fair Dick vs. Oklahoma Picks
2:01:57 SIU Edwardsville vs. Duke Picks
2:03:35 Wright State vs. Samford Picks
2:05:16 Illinois State vs. North Dakota State Picks
2:06:55 Texas Southern vs. Murray State Picks
2:07:43 Virginia vs. Maryland Picks
2:09:48 Milwaukee vs. TCU Picks
2:11:59 Georgia Southern vs. Orlando Picks
2:12:43 Southern Miss vs. Texas State Picks
2:13:40 Central Arkansas vs. Arkansas Picks
2:15:52 Alcorn State vs. Tarleton State Picks
2:16:36 Lindenwood vs. Omaha Picks
2:17:50 Xavier vs. Mississippi State Picks
2:20:00 ULM vs. Arizona State Picks
2:20:52 Arizona vs. Auburn Picks
2:22:53 DePaul vs. Northwestern Picks
2:24:05 Cal Poly vs. Idaho Picks
2:25:24 Seton Hall vs. Alabama Picks
2:26:28 Stanford vs. UNLV Picks
2:27:16 Ball State vs. SMU Picks
2:28:02 Chicago State vs. San Diego Picks
2:29:32 Mississippi Valley State vs. Oregon State Picks
2:29:56 UC San Diego vs. Utah State Picks
2:32:09 Commerce vs. Portland Picks
2:32:49 UIC vs. Santa Clara Picks
2:34:33 Golden Lions vs. Cal Baptist Picks
2:35:39 Top Three Plays and the Dog
2:39:03 Sign-Off & Socials
