{"id":207152,"date":"2026-03-06T09:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/207152\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:48:17","slug":"uc-davis-favored-to-win-mens-college-basketball-matchup-3-5-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/207152\/","title":{"rendered":"UC Davis favored to win men’s college basketball matchup [3\/5\/2026]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Men’s college basketball action continues on Thursday at 10:00 PM ET as UC Davis takes on Long Beach State in men’s college basketball action at Walter Pyramid.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

Our famous predictive model currently gives UC Davis a 55% chance of beating Long Beach State. Our predicted final score has UC Davis winning 74-73.<\/p>\n

According to our model, Long Beach State (+1.5) has a 51% chance of covering the spread, while the over\/under total of 149.5 points has a 54% chance of staying under.<\/p>\n

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

Spread
\n-1.5 (-110)
\n+1.5 (-105)<\/p>\n

Moneyline
\n-130
\n+112<\/p>\n

Total
\no149.5 (-115)
\nu149.5 (-105)<\/p>\n

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

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

After matching our probabilities 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’s college basketball action continues on Thursday at 10:00 PM ET as UC Davis takes on Long Beach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-207152","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\/207152","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=207152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}