{"id":135637,"date":"2026-01-16T04:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/135637\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T04:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:00:21","slug":"long-beach-state-favored-to-win-mens-college-basketball-matchup-1-15-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/135637\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State favored to win men&#8217;s college basketball matchup [1\/15\/2026]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Men&#8217;s college basketball action continues on Thursday at 10:00 PM ET as UC Riverside takes on Long Beach State in men&#8217;s college basketball action  at Walter Pyramid.<\/p>\n<p>Based on updated simulations, Dimers&#8217; proven college basketball model predicts Long Beach State as the most likely winner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimers.com\/bet-hub\/cbb\/schedule\/2025_74_lbsu_ucrv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UC Riverside vs. Long Beach State<\/a> game.<\/p>\n<p>This article offers further insights into Thursday&#8217;s matchup, including an expanded look at the predicted score, best bets and picks.<\/p>\n<p>UC Riverside vs. Long Beach State prediction: Who will win and cover?<\/p>\n<p>Using trusted machine learning and data, we have simulated the outcome of Thursday&#8217;s NCAA basketball matchup between UC Riverside 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 leading predictive model gives Long Beach State a 70% chance of beating UC Riverside. Our predicted final score has Long Beach State winning 73-67.<\/p>\n<p>According to our model, UC Riverside (+5.5) has a 51% chance of covering the spread, while the 141.5-point over\/under  has an equal 50-50 chance of hitting.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UC Riverside vs. Long Beach State odds<\/p>\n<p>We have sourced 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 \/>\nUC Riverside<br \/>\nLong Beach State<\/p>\n<p>Spread<br \/>\n+5.5 (-108)<br \/>\n-5.5 (-104)<\/p>\n<p>Moneyline<br \/>\n+205<br \/>\n-225<\/p>\n<p>Total<br \/>\no141.5 (-110)<br \/>\nu141.5 (-105)<\/p>\n<p>All odds are correct at the time of publication and are subject to change.<\/p>\n<p>UC Riverside vs. Long Beach State picks and best bet<\/p>\n<p>After matching our predictions against the best current 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":"Men&#8217;s college basketball action continues on Thursday at 10:00 PM ET as UC Riverside takes on Long Beach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-135637","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\/135637","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=135637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}