{"id":119561,"date":"2026-01-04T07:20:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/119561\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T07:20:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:20:50","slug":"long-beach-state-favored-to-win-mens-college-basketball-matchup-1-3-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/119561\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State favored to win men&#8217;s college basketball matchup [1\/3\/2026]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long Beach State and Cal Poly will lock horns in men&#8217;s college basketball action at Walter Pyramid on Saturday, starting at 9:00 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the latest simulations, Dimers&#8217; proven college basketball model gives Long Beach State a slight edge with a 54% win probability over Cal Poly.<\/p>\n<p>This article offers an expanded analysis of Saturday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimers.com\/bet-hub\/cbb\/schedule\/2025_62_lbsu_cp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cal Poly vs. Long Beach State<\/a> matchup, including an expanded look at the predicted score, best bets and picks.<\/p>\n<p>Cal Poly vs. Long Beach State prediction: Who will win and cover?<\/p>\n<p>Using innovative machine learning and data analysis, we have simulated the outcome of Saturday&#8217;s NCAA basketball matchup between Cal Poly and Long Beach State 10,000 times as part of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimers.com\/bet-hub\/cbb\/schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">men&#8217;s college basketball predictions<\/a> coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Our independent predictive model gives Long Beach State a 54% chance of beating Cal Poly. Our predicted final score has Long Beach State winning 80-79.<\/p>\n<p>According to our model, Cal Poly (+1.5) has a 55% chance of covering the spread, while the over\/under total of 162.5 points has a 53% chance of staying under.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cal Poly vs. Long Beach State odds<\/p>\n<p>We have researched the best <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimers.com\/cbb\/best-odds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">men&#8217;s college basketball odds<\/a> in America for this game, which are listed here:<\/p>\n<p>Bet Type<br \/>\nCal Poly<br \/>\nLong Beach State<\/p>\n<p>Spread<br \/>\n+1.5 (-102)<br \/>\n-1.5 (-120)<\/p>\n<p>Moneyline<br \/>\n+114<br \/>\n-135<\/p>\n<p>Total<br \/>\no162.5 (-106)<br \/>\nu162.5 (-110)<\/p>\n<p>All odds are correct at the time of publication and are subject to change.<\/p>\n<p>Cal Poly vs. Long Beach State picks and best bet<\/p>\n<p>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":"Long Beach State and Cal Poly will lock horns in men&#8217;s college basketball action at Walter Pyramid on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-119561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119561","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=119561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}