If you followed my women’s picks over the weekend, you know we went 7-2, which greatly helps make up for the water-treading men’s picks of late. I will continue to minimize my men’s volume until the pendulum swings back the other way and will continue to push the women’s volume, as we’re sitting at a red-hot 91-57 for the year. Without further ado, here are today’s men’s and women’s basketball projections from the T Shoe Index.

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These “Projections and Best Bets” pieces will be occurring Monday-Thursday, so buckle up and get ready to take advantage of having the T Shoe Index at your disposal from now on. 

As a refresher, the T Shoe Index (TSI) is my proprietary rating system that I use for college football, NFL, men’s and women’s college basketball, and WNBA. It is a tempo and opponent-adjusted rating that allows us to answer the question, “How many points would team A be expected to score and allow vs Team B”, based on a myriad of statistical factors. 

Here are the TSI projections for today, January 15th:

How to read this sheet: the “TSI Projected Spread” is the projected point margin based on TSI ratings. If the number is positive, that indicates Team 1 is projected to win by that margin, if the number is negative, that indicates Team 2 is projected to win by that margin.

Men’s

TeamTeamTSITSI O/U
Alabama A&MAlabama State-8.4147.1
AmericanLoyola (MD)3.9142.3
Arkansas-Pine BluffPrairie View-5.3163.2
Bethune-CookmanSouthern-2.9145.6
Boston CollegeNotre Dame10.3138.7
BrownHarvard-6.8144.3
Central Connecticut StateMerrimack1.2134.0
Chicago StateStetson-18.8138.9
ColumbiaYale-6.5147.5
CornellPennsylvania3.0160.3
DartmouthPrinceton-25.5134.4
Fairleigh DickinsonSaint Francis (PA)-2.0147.5
Florida A&MGrambling2.8140.1
George MasonGeorge Washington1.9153.4
HamptonNorth Carolina A&T9.3155.9
Houston ChristianNorthwestern State-1.7150.4
Incarnate WordTexas A&M-Commerce-4.0144.5
IowaMinnesota1.0157.4
La SalleSaint Joseph’s-10.0149.5
LamarMcNeese State-10.1148.8
Le MoyneSacred Heart0.5146.5
MarquetteVillanova3.7142.1
MichiganOhio State-2.8151.7
Mississippi Valley StateTexas Southern-19.1126.7
New OrleansNicholls State-8.5153.2
Southeastern LouisianaTexas A&M-Corpus Christi4.6137.7
StonehillWagner-11.4131.8

Bets:

George Mason/George Washington Over 144.5

Alabama A&M/Alabama State Over 139.5

Women’s

TeamTeamTSITSI O/U
Alabama A&MAlabama State23.9126.9
Arkansas-Pine BluffPrairie View17.7142.1
Bethune-CookmanSouthern13.0124.2
BrownHarvard-5.5131.1
Central Connecticut StateMerrimack-4.8126.6
Chicago StateLong Island University-7.4138.3
ColumbiaYale24.0141.8
CornellPennsylvania-7.1132.1
DartmouthPrinceton-24.3116.9
Fairleigh DickinsonSaint Francis (PA)17.0120.7
Florida A&MGrambling-5.7142.4
KentuckySouth Carolina-45.4143.1
La SalleSaint Joseph’s-26.4131.0
Le MoyneSacred Heart-10.8124.9
Mississippi Valley StateTexas Southern-9.1124.4
StonehillWagner-7.0121.8

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