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College Basketball Best Bets: Rice Is Cooked vs. Western Kentucky

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Three Man Weave and I are back with our four favorite bets from Thursday's college basketball slate.

3MW Pick: Western Kentucky -4.5

Most shrewd gamblers would balk at seeing Western Kentucky laying only 4.5 points to Rice.

How can a surefire C-USA title contender with boatloads of talent be favored by only four and a half against last year’s conference punching bag? Surely, the oddsmakers must know something...

Don’t let what appears to be a fishy line scare you away—overanalyzing the oddsmakers’ rationale behind a certain line can often be a red herring for handicappers.