{"id":518182,"date":"2026-01-05T14:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/518182\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T14:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:04:11","slug":"mens-and-womens-college-basketball-best-bets-odds-and-predictions-for-monday-january-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/518182\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s College Basketball Best Bets, Odds, and Predictions for Monday, January 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s College Basketball Best Bets:<\/p>\n<p>Welcome back to the daily edition of men\u2019s and women\u2019s college basketball projections, courtesy of my proprietary ratings system, the T Shoe Index (TSI). As a reminder, TSI is an opponent-adjusted and tempo-adjusted ratings system that utilizes several key performance metrics to rate teams and project results for every matchup across the sport. If you\u2019re new to women\u2019s college basketball betting, oftentimes the lines are posted much closer to tip-off and therefore bets aren\u2019t able to be made at the time of writing this morning article, so be sure to follow me on X <a href=\"http:\/\/www.x.com\/tshoeindex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@TShoeIndex<\/a> to get my women\u2019s plays. Here are today\u2019s college basketball projections and bets:<\/p>\n<p>Men\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>DateTeamTeamTSITSI Total1\/5\/2026Arkansas-Pine BluffAlabama State-1.3163.81\/5\/2026BrownYale-8.1149.11\/5\/2026College of CharlestonWilliam &amp; Mary-0.4157.71\/5\/2026CornellColumbia-0.2174.41\/5\/2026GramblingTexas Southern7.6152.81\/5\/2026Green BayMilwaukee0.7151.31\/5\/2026HarvardDartmouth5.5146.31\/5\/2026Houston ChristianTexas A&amp;M-Corpus Christi2.4136.11\/5\/2026McNeese StateStephen F. Austin-5.8138.51\/5\/2026Michigan StateUSC8.6153.41\/5\/2026Mississippi Valley StateAlabama A&amp;M-11.0143.01\/5\/2026New OrleansEast Texas A&amp;M10.0154.11\/5\/2026Nicholls StateNorthwestern State5.3153.91\/5\/2026Ohio StateNebraska2.6156.41\/5\/2026PrincetonPennsylvania0.8145.31\/5\/2026RutgersOregon-1.2141.71\/5\/2026Southeastern LouisianaLamar-0.6131.11\/5\/2026SouthernPrairie View7.0169.71\/5\/2026Texas-Rio Grande ValleyIncarnate Word4.3151.1Positive # = Left Team Projected FavoriteNegative # = Right Team Projected Favorite<\/p>\n<p>Bets:<br \/>Columbia +2.5<br \/>Prairie View\/Southern Over 162.5<br \/>Rutgers +6.5<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>DateTeamTeamTSITSI Total1\/5\/2026MichiganMinnesota12.9137.21\/5\/2026NorthwesternIowa-25.7150.41\/5\/2026Purdue Fort WayneIU Indy13.7132.11\/5\/2026Youngstown StateOakland9.2133.81\/5\/2026YaleBrown-4.7121.1Positive # = Left Team Projected FavoriteNegative # = Right Team Projected Favorite<\/p>\n<p>Follow me on X\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.x.com\/tshoeindex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@TShoeIndex<\/a>\u00a0and add notifications to my tweets for more best bets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s College Basketball Best Bets: Welcome back to the daily edition of men\u2019s and women\u2019s college&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,7940,231,772,1544],"class_list":{"0":"post-518182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-college-basketball-betting","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaab"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115842873008138365","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}