{"id":96762,"date":"2025-12-22T04:47:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/96762\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T04:47:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:47:18","slug":"utep-favored-to-win-mens-college-basketball-matchup-12-21-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/96762\/","title":{"rendered":"UTEP favored to win men’s college basketball matchup [12\/21\/2025]"},"content":{"rendered":"

UTEP and Norfolk State are scheduled to meet in men’s college basketball action at Don Haskins Center on Sunday, with tipoff at 9:00 PM ET.<\/p>\n

Based on updated simulation results, Dimers’ proven college basketball model projects UTEP as the most likely winner of the Norfolk State vs. UTEP<\/a> game.<\/p>\n

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

Norfolk State vs. UTEP prediction: Who will win and cover?<\/p>\n

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

Our independent predictive model gives UTEP an 88% chance of beating Norfolk State. Our predicted final score has UTEP winning 73-61.<\/p>\n

According to our model, UTEP (-10.5) has a 54% chance of covering the spread, while the over\/under total of 136.5 points has a 53% chance of staying under.<\/p>\n

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Norfolk State vs. UTEP 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
\nNorfolk State
\nUTEP<\/p>\n

Spread
\n+10.5 (-115)
\n-10.5 (-102)<\/p>\n

Moneyline
\n+430
\n-470<\/p>\n

Total
\no136.5 (-110)
\nu136.5 (-110)<\/p>\n

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

Norfolk State vs. UTEP picks and best bet<\/p>\n

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":"UTEP and Norfolk State are scheduled to meet in men’s college basketball action at Don Haskins Center on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-96762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96762","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=96762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}