{"id":195401,"date":"2026-02-26T21:26:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/195401\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T21:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:26:22","slug":"uc-san-diego-favored-to-win-mens-college-basketball-matchup-2-26-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/195401\/","title":{"rendered":"UC San Diego favored to win men&#8217;s college basketball matchup [2\/26\/2026]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Men&#8217;s college basketball action continues on Thursday at 10:00 PM ET as Cal State Bakersfield faces off with the favored UC San Diego in men&#8217;s college basketball action  at LionTree Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Based on updated simulation results, Dimers&#8217; proven college basketball model predicts UC San Diego as the most likely winner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimers.com\/bet-hub\/cbb\/schedule\/2025_116_ucsd_csb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cal State Bakersfield vs. UC San Diego<\/a> game.<\/p>\n<p>This article offers a closer look at Thursday&#8217;s matchup, including an expanded look at the predicted score, best bets and picks.<\/p>\n<p>Cal State Bakersfield vs. UC San Diego prediction: Who will win and cover?<\/p>\n<p>Using innovative machine learning and data, we have simulated the outcome of Thursday&#8217;s NCAA basketball matchup between Cal State Bakersfield and UC San Diego 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 famous predictive model currently gives UC San Diego a 91% chance of beating Cal State Bakersfield. Our predicted final score has UC San Diego winning 83-67.<\/p>\n<p>According to our model, UC San Diego (-14.5) has a 53% chance of covering the spread, while the 148.5-point over\/under has a 54% chance of going over.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cal State Bakersfield vs. UC San Diego 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 \/>\nCal State Bakersfield<br \/>\nUC San Diego<\/p>\n<p>Spread<br \/>\n+14.5 (-105)<br \/>\n-14.5 (-110)<\/p>\n<p>Moneyline<br \/>\n+890<br \/>\n-1400<\/p>\n<p>Total<br \/>\no148.5 (-108)<br \/>\nu148.5 (-110)<\/p>\n<p>All odds are correct at the time of publication and are subject to change.<\/p>\n<p>Cal State Bakersfield vs. UC San Diego 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":"Men&#8217;s college basketball action continues on Thursday at 10:00 PM ET as Cal State Bakersfield faces off with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-195401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195401","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=195401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}