{"id":531885,"date":"2026-01-12T15:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/531885\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:16:11","slug":"mens-and-womens-college-basketball-best-bets-odds-and-predictions-for-monday-january-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/531885\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s College Basketball Best Bets, Odds, and Predictions for Monday, January 12"},"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\/12\/2026Alabama A&amp;MJackson State6.8141.41\/12\/2026Alabama StateAlcorn State7.3161.51\/12\/2026AmericanNavy0.0144.71\/12\/2026Bethune-CookmanSouthern4.4161.51\/12\/2026Coppin StateSouth Carolina State-2.3148.41\/12\/2026East Texas A&amp;MTexas A&amp;M-Corpus Christi-1.2137.31\/12\/2026Florida A&amp;MGrambling-4.3146.31\/12\/2026HowardDelaware State9.7129.31\/12\/2026LamarHouston Christian4.4137.41\/12\/2026McNeese StateNicholls State2.2146.21\/12\/2026Morgan StateNorth Carolina Central3.3148.71\/12\/2026Norfolk StateUMES7.3128.01\/12\/2026Northwestern StateTexas-Rio Grande Valley-4.2148.91\/12\/2026Prairie ViewArkansas-Pine Bluff0.4167.61\/12\/2026Southeastern LouisianaNew Orleans-2.9144.51\/12\/2026Stephen F. AustinIncarnate Word9.2146.51\/12\/2026Texas SouthernMississippi Valley State12.1156.5Positive # = Left Team Projected FavoriteNegative # = Right Team Projected Favorite<\/p>\n<p>Bets:<br \/>East Texas A&amp;M +7.5<br \/>Texas Southern\/MVSU Over 143<br \/>Nicholls +13.5<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>DateTeamTeamTSITSI Total1\/12\/2026MissouriAlabama-10.6139.0<\/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":531886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,7940,231,772,1544],"class_list":{"0":"post-531885","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\/115882792251843333","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531885","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=531885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}