Men’s and Women’s College Basketball Best Bets:
Welcome back to the daily edition of men’s and women’s college basketball projections, courtesy of my proprietary ratings system, the T Shoe Index (TSI). As a reminder, TSI is an opponent-adjusted and tempo-adjusted ratings system that utilizes several key performance metrics to rate teams and project results for every matchup across the sport. If you’re new to women’s college basketball betting, oftentimes the lines are posted much closer to tip-off and therefore bets aren’t able to be made at the time of writing this morning article, so be sure to follow me on X @TShoeIndex to get my women’s plays. Here are today’s college basketball projections and bets:
Men’s
| Date | Team | Team | TSI | TSI Total |
| 1/5/2026 | Arkansas-Pine Bluff | Alabama State | -1.3 | 163.8 |
| 1/5/2026 | Brown | Yale | -8.1 | 149.1 |
| 1/5/2026 | College of Charleston | William & Mary | -0.4 | 157.7 |
| 1/5/2026 | Cornell | Columbia | -0.2 | 174.4 |
| 1/5/2026 | Grambling | Texas Southern | 7.6 | 152.8 |
| 1/5/2026 | Green Bay | Milwaukee | 0.7 | 151.3 |
| 1/5/2026 | Harvard | Dartmouth | 5.5 | 146.3 |
| 1/5/2026 | Houston Christian | Texas A&M-Corpus Christi | 2.4 | 136.1 |
| 1/5/2026 | McNeese State | Stephen F. Austin | -5.8 | 138.5 |
| 1/5/2026 | Michigan State | USC | 8.6 | 153.4 |
| 1/5/2026 | Mississippi Valley State | Alabama A&M | -11.0 | 143.0 |
| 1/5/2026 | New Orleans | East Texas A&M | 10.0 | 154.1 |
| 1/5/2026 | Nicholls State | Northwestern State | 5.3 | 153.9 |
| 1/5/2026 | Ohio State | Nebraska | 2.6 | 156.4 |
| 1/5/2026 | Princeton | Pennsylvania | 0.8 | 145.3 |
| 1/5/2026 | Rutgers | Oregon | -1.2 | 141.7 |
| 1/5/2026 | Southeastern Louisiana | Lamar | -0.6 | 131.1 |
| 1/5/2026 | Southern | Prairie View | 7.0 | 169.7 |
| 1/5/2026 | Texas-Rio Grande Valley | Incarnate Word | 4.3 | 151.1 |
| Positive # = Left Team Projected Favorite | ||||
| Negative # = Right Team Projected Favorite | ||||
Bets:
Columbia +2.5
Prairie View/Southern Over 162.5
Rutgers +6.5
Women’s
| Date | Team | Team | TSI | TSI Total |
| 1/5/2026 | Michigan | Minnesota | 12.9 | 137.2 |
| 1/5/2026 | Northwestern | Iowa | -25.7 | 150.4 |
| 1/5/2026 | Purdue Fort Wayne | IU Indy | 13.7 | 132.1 |
| 1/5/2026 | Youngstown State | Oakland | 9.2 | 133.8 |
| 1/5/2026 | Yale | Brown | -4.7 | 121.1 |
| Positive # = Left Team Projected Favorite | ||||
| Negative # = Right Team Projected Favorite | ||||
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