{"id":106951,"date":"2025-12-23T23:04:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/106951\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T23:04:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:04:36","slug":"why-idaho-is-favored-to-win-mens-college-basketball-matchup-12-23-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/106951\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Idaho is favored to win men’s college basketball matchup [12\/23\/2025]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cal State Bakersfield and Idaho will lock horns in men’s college basketball action at Icardo Center on Tuesday, with tipoff at 5:00 PM ET.<\/p>\n

Based on the latest simulations, Dimers’ advanced college basketball model predicts Idaho as the most likely winner of the Idaho vs. Cal State Bakersfield<\/a> game.<\/p>\n

This article offers a closer look at Tuesday’s matchup, including an expanded look at the predicted score, best bets and picks.<\/p>\n

Idaho vs. Cal State Bakersfield prediction: Who will win and cover?<\/p>\n

Using innovative machine learning and data, we have simulated the outcome of Tuesday’s NCAA basketball game between Idaho and Cal State Bakersfield 10,000 times as part of our men’s college basketball predictions<\/a> coverage.<\/p>\n

Our independent predictive model currently gives Idaho a 75% chance of beating Cal State Bakersfield. Our predicted final score has Idaho winning 78-71.<\/p>\n

According to our model, Cal State Bakersfield (+7.5) has a 51% chance of covering the spread, while the over\/under total of 150.5 points has an equal 50-50 chance of hitting.<\/p>\n

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Idaho vs. Cal State Bakersfield odds<\/p>\n

We have sourced the best men’s college basketball odds<\/a> in America for this game, which are listed here:<\/p>\n

Bet Type
\nIdaho
\nCal State Bakersfield<\/p>\n

Spread
\n-7.5 (-102)
\n+7.5 (-110)<\/p>\n

Moneyline
\n-310
\n+260<\/p>\n

Total
\no150.5 (-105)
\nu150.5 (-110)<\/p>\n

All odds are correct at the time of publication and are subject to change.<\/p>\n

Idaho vs. Cal State Bakersfield picks and best bet<\/p>\n

After matching our predictions against the best available odds, we can reveal our picks for each of the major markets. Plus, find our best bet for the game below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cal State Bakersfield and Idaho will lock horns in men’s college basketball action at Icardo Center on Tuesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-106951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}