{"id":125532,"date":"2026-01-08T19:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/125532\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T19:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:34:10","slug":"uc-irvine-favored-to-win-mens-college-basketball-matchup-1-8-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/125532\/","title":{"rendered":"UC Irvine favored to win men’s college basketball matchup [1\/8\/2026]"},"content":{"rendered":"

UC Irvine will take on Long Beach State in men’s college basketball action at Bren Events Center on Thursday, commencing at 10:00 PM ET.<\/p>\n

Based on the latest simulations, Dimers’ proven college basketball model predicts UC Irvine as the most likely winner of the Long Beach State vs. UC Irvine<\/a> game.<\/p>\n

This article offers further insights into Thursday’s matchup, including an expanded look at the predicted score, best bets and picks.<\/p>\n

Long Beach State vs. UC Irvine prediction: Who will win and cover?<\/p>\n

Using powerful machine learning and data, we have simulated the outcome of Thursday’s NCAA basketball game between Long Beach State and UC Irvine 10,000 times as part of our men’s college basketball predictions<\/a> coverage.<\/p>\n

Our independent predictive model gives UC Irvine an 84% chance of beating Long Beach State. Our predicted final score has UC Irvine winning 77-66.<\/p>\n

According to our model, UC Irvine (-9.5) has a 55% chance of covering the spread, while the over\/under total of 142.5 points has a 53% chance of going over.<\/p>\n

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Long Beach State vs. UC Irvine 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
\nLong Beach State
\nUC Irvine<\/p>\n

Spread
\n+9.5 (-108)
\n-9.5 (-110)<\/p>\n

Moneyline
\n+400
\n-500<\/p>\n

Total
\no142.5 (-110)
\nu142.5 (-108)<\/p>\n

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

Long Beach State vs. UC Irvine picks and best bet<\/p>\n

After matching our probabilities 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":"UC Irvine will take on Long Beach State in men’s college basketball action at Bren Events Center on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-125532","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\/125532","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=125532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}