{"id":110530,"date":"2026-01-04T18:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T18:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/110530\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T18:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T18:01:13","slug":"florida-international-favored-to-win-mens-college-basketball-matchup-1-4-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/110530\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida International favored to win men&#8217;s college basketball matchup [1\/4\/2026]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida International and UTEP are scheduled to meet in men&#8217;s college basketball action at Ocean Bank Convocation Center on Sunday, with tipoff at 4:00 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the latest simulation results, Dimers&#8217; proven college basketball model predicts Florida International as the most likely winner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimers.com\/bet-hub\/cbb\/schedule\/2025_63_fiu_utep\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UTEP vs. Florida International<\/a> game.<\/p>\n<p>This article offers a closer look at Sunday&#8217;s matchup, including an expanded look at the predicted score, best bets and picks.<\/p>\n<p>UTEP vs. Florida International prediction: Who will win and cover?<\/p>\n<p>Using powerful machine learning and statistical analysis, we have simulated the outcome of Sunday&#8217;s NCAA basketball matchup between UTEP and Florida International 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 gives Florida International a 76% chance of beating UTEP. Our predicted final score has Florida International winning 78-71.<\/p>\n<p>According to our model, the bookmakers have got it right, and UTEP and Florida International each have a 50% chance of covering the spread, while the 149.5-point over\/under also  has an equal 50-50 chance of hitting.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UTEP vs. Florida International 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 \/>\nUTEP<br \/>\nFlorida International<\/p>\n<p>Spread<br \/>\n+7.5 (-102)<br \/>\n-7.5 (-115)<\/p>\n<p>Moneyline<br \/>\n+320<br \/>\n-375<\/p>\n<p>Total<br \/>\no149.5 (-110)<br \/>\nu149.5 (-105)<\/p>\n<p>All odds are correct at the time of publication and are subject to change.<\/p>\n<p>UTEP vs. Florida International 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":"Florida International and UTEP are scheduled to meet in men&#8217;s college basketball action at Ocean Bank Convocation Center&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-110530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}