If you followed my women’s picks over the weekend, you know we went 7-2, which greatly helps make up for the water-treading men’s picks of late. I will continue to minimize my men’s volume until the pendulum swings back the other way and will continue to push the women’s volume, as we’re sitting at a red-hot 91-57 for the year. Without further ado, here are today’s men’s and women’s basketball projections from the T Shoe Index.
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As a refresher, the T Shoe Index (TSI) is my proprietary rating system that I use for college football, NFL, men’s and women’s college basketball, and WNBA. It is a tempo and opponent-adjusted rating that allows us to answer the question, “How many points would team A be expected to score and allow vs Team B”, based on a myriad of statistical factors.
Here are the TSI projections for today, January 15th:
How to read this sheet: the “TSI Projected Spread” is the projected point margin based on TSI ratings. If the number is positive, that indicates Team 1 is projected to win by that margin, if the number is negative, that indicates Team 2 is projected to win by that margin.
Men’s
| Team | Team | TSI | TSI O/U |
| Alabama A&M | Alabama State | -8.4 | 147.1 |
| American | Loyola (MD) | 3.9 | 142.3 |
| Arkansas-Pine Bluff | Prairie View | -5.3 | 163.2 |
| Bethune-Cookman | Southern | -2.9 | 145.6 |
| Boston College | Notre Dame | 10.3 | 138.7 |
| Brown | Harvard | -6.8 | 144.3 |
| Central Connecticut State | Merrimack | 1.2 | 134.0 |
| Chicago State | Stetson | -18.8 | 138.9 |
| Columbia | Yale | -6.5 | 147.5 |
| Cornell | Pennsylvania | 3.0 | 160.3 |
| Dartmouth | Princeton | -25.5 | 134.4 |
| Fairleigh Dickinson | Saint Francis (PA) | -2.0 | 147.5 |
| Florida A&M | Grambling | 2.8 | 140.1 |
| George Mason | George Washington | 1.9 | 153.4 |
| Hampton | North Carolina A&T | 9.3 | 155.9 |
| Houston Christian | Northwestern State | -1.7 | 150.4 |
| Incarnate Word | Texas A&M-Commerce | -4.0 | 144.5 |
| Iowa | Minnesota | 1.0 | 157.4 |
| La Salle | Saint Joseph’s | -10.0 | 149.5 |
| Lamar | McNeese State | -10.1 | 148.8 |
| Le Moyne | Sacred Heart | 0.5 | 146.5 |
| Marquette | Villanova | 3.7 | 142.1 |
| Michigan | Ohio State | -2.8 | 151.7 |
| Mississippi Valley State | Texas Southern | -19.1 | 126.7 |
| New Orleans | Nicholls State | -8.5 | 153.2 |
| Southeastern Louisiana | Texas A&M-Corpus Christi | 4.6 | 137.7 |
| Stonehill | Wagner | -11.4 | 131.8 |
Bets:
George Mason/George Washington Over 144.5
Alabama A&M/Alabama State Over 139.5
Women’s
| Team | Team | TSI | TSI O/U |
| Alabama A&M | Alabama State | 23.9 | 126.9 |
| Arkansas-Pine Bluff | Prairie View | 17.7 | 142.1 |
| Bethune-Cookman | Southern | 13.0 | 124.2 |
| Brown | Harvard | -5.5 | 131.1 |
| Central Connecticut State | Merrimack | -4.8 | 126.6 |
| Chicago State | Long Island University | -7.4 | 138.3 |
| Columbia | Yale | 24.0 | 141.8 |
| Cornell | Pennsylvania | -7.1 | 132.1 |
| Dartmouth | Princeton | -24.3 | 116.9 |
| Fairleigh Dickinson | Saint Francis (PA) | 17.0 | 120.7 |
| Florida A&M | Grambling | -5.7 | 142.4 |
| Kentucky | South Carolina | -45.4 | 143.1 |
| La Salle | Saint Joseph’s | -26.4 | 131.0 |
| Le Moyne | Sacred Heart | -10.8 | 124.9 |
| Mississippi Valley State | Texas Southern | -9.1 | 124.4 |
| Stonehill | Wagner | -7.0 | 121.8 |
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