{"id":58922,"date":"2025-11-18T18:45:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/58922\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T18:45:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:45:36","slug":"illinois-state-favored-to-win-mens-college-basketball-matchup-11-16-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/58922\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois State favored to win men&#8217;s college basketball matchup [11\/16\/2025]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long Beach State and Illinois State will lock horns in men&#8217;s college basketball action at Walter Pyramid on Sunday, starting at 7:00PM ET.<\/p>\n<p>Based on updated simulations, Dimers&#8217; advanced college basketball model projects Illinois State as the most likely winner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimers.com\/bet-hub\/cbb\/schedule\/2025_14_lbsu_ilst\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Illinois State vs. Long Beach State<\/a> game.<\/p>\n<p>This article offers further insights into Sunday&#8217;s matchup, including an expanded look at the predicted score, best bets and picks.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois State vs. Long Beach State prediction: Who will win and cover?<\/p>\n<p>Using powerful machine learning and data analysis, we have simulated the outcome of Sunday&#8217;s NCAA basketball game between Illinois State 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 Illinois State a 79% chance of beating Long Beach State. Our predicted final score has Illinois State winning 76-68.<\/p>\n<p>According to our model, the bookmakers have got it right, and Illinois State and Long Beach State each have a 50% chance of covering the spread, while the over\/under total of 142.5 points has a 54% chance of going over.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Illinois State 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 \/>\nIllinois State<br \/>\nLong Beach State<\/p>\n<p>Spread<br \/>\n-8.5 (-110)<br \/>\n+8.5 (-105)<\/p>\n<p>Moneyline<br \/>\n-425<br \/>\n+330<\/p>\n<p>Total<br \/>\no142.5 (-105)<br \/>\nu142.5 (-110)<\/p>\n<p>All odds are correct at the time of publication and are subject to change.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois State vs. Long Beach State picks and best bet<\/p>\n<p>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":"Long Beach State and Illinois State will lock horns in men&#8217;s college basketball action at Walter Pyramid on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-58922","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\/58922","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=58922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}