BetQL Editors' College Basketball Picks For Tuesday, Jan. 17

Today's College Basketball Best Bets

There's more college basketball action today, which means even more tough decisions for bettors to go along with NBA, NFL, NHL and college football this week. To help you make the best bets today, the BetQL editors have picked a few of their favorite college basketball bets below using key trends, data and picks from the BetQL model.

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Kate Constable: Baylor at Texas Tech Over 144
Texas Tech is in a desperate spot after starting Big 12 play 0-5. Poor perimeter defense has led to a lot of those losses, as the Red Raiders are allowing teams to shoot nearly 40% from deep. That's a great sign for the over tonight because nearly half of Baylor’s shots come from beyond the arc. The Bears also have the eighth-highest offensive rating in the country, but on defense, they frequently send teams to the free-throw line. That’s an area that Texas Tech is great at exploiting, which should lead to quite a few freebees and a high-scoring affair.

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Matt Horner: Texas Tech ML vs. Baylor

Take the Red Raiders on the moneyline while you can before this line gets more juice added to it. I managed to grab them at -125 Monday night, but we have already seen money start coming in on Texas Tech on Tuesday morning. Again, this is a fishy line that will try to make bettors take Baylor at plus-money. Why is 10-7 Texas Tech a favorite against 12-5 No. 21 Baylor? There’s a reason they are, and you know the public will be all over the ranked Bears.

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Dan Karpuc: Houston -11 at Tulane
Houston is No. 1 in KenPom’s rankings with the second-ranked Adjusted Defensive Efficiency rating and 10th-ranked Adjusted Offensive rating. The Cougars are going to slow the pace of this game down and play in their style (334th Adjusted Tempo out of 363 Division-I schools). That’s going to make life very tough on Tulane, which plays at the sixth-fastest pace in the nation. Tulane ranks 59th in Adjusted Offensive Efficiency and 122nd in Adjusted Defensive Efficiency (80th overall), per KenPom, and there is a clear gap between the skill levels of these teams. Tulane has also gone 4-7 ATS at home this season, while Houston has gone 5-0 ATS (and SU) on the road. Not only that, but under Kelvin Sampson, the Cougars have gone 23-5 ATS coming off of a home no-cover where the team still won straight-up as a favorite. Since Houston beat USF 83-77 at home but failed to cover the -23 spread last game, that awesome trend is active.

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Lucy Burdge: Kansas State +2 vs. Kansas
Kansas State (12-5 ATS) has covered the spread in seven of their last nine games, including five of its last six home games, while Kansas has failed to cover in back to back wins. Plus, Kansas is just 6-9 ATS as the favorite this season, so I think Kansas State can cover tonight at home against Kansas.

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