{"id":71543,"date":"2025-11-27T02:04:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T02:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/71543\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T02:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T02:04:23","slug":"why-fresno-state-is-favored-to-win-mens-college-basketball-matchup-11-26-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/71543\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Fresno State is favored to win men&#8217;s college basketball matchup [11\/26\/2025]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Men&#8217;s college basketball action continues on Wednesday at 7:00PM ET as Fresno State squares off with Pepperdine in men&#8217;s college basketball action  at Acrisure Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the latest simulations, Dimers&#8217; advanced college basketball model gives Fresno State a slight edge with a 52% win probability over Pepperdine.<\/p>\n<p>This article offers an expanded analysis of Wednesday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimers.com\/bet-hub\/cbb\/schedule\/2025_24_pepp_fres\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fresno State vs. Pepperdine<\/a> matchup, including an expanded look at the predicted score, best bets and picks.<\/p>\n<p>Fresno State vs. Pepperdine prediction: Who will win and cover?<\/p>\n<p>Using innovative machine learning and data, we have simulated the outcome of Wednesday&#8217;s NCAA basketball matchup between Fresno State and Pepperdine 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 Fresno State a 52% chance of beating Pepperdine. Our predicted score is Fresno State 74-74 Pepperdine.<\/p>\n<p>According to our model, Pepperdine (+2.5) has a 55% chance of covering the spread, while the over\/under total of 148.5 points  has an equal 50-50 chance of hitting.<\/p>\n<p>While there is no way for a men&#8217;s college basketball game to end in a tie, our prediction of 74-74 is based on each team&#8217;s average score in the above-mentioned simulations of Fresno State vs. Pepperdine.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fresno State vs. Pepperdine 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 \/>\nFresno State<br \/>\nPepperdine<\/p>\n<p>Spread<br \/>\n-2.5 (+100)<br \/>\n+2.5 (-115)<\/p>\n<p>Moneyline<br \/>\n-130<br \/>\n+114<\/p>\n<p>Total<br \/>\no148.5 (-105)<br \/>\nu148.5 (-105)<\/p>\n<p>All odds are correct at the time of publication and are subject to change.<\/p>\n<p>Fresno State vs. Pepperdine 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 Wednesday at 7:00PM ET as Fresno State squares off with Pepperdine in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-71543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71543","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=71543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}