Below are our NCAA & NBA Betting Edges & recommended pick for Jan. 9, 2025. Tonight we have one recommended NBA and one recommended college basketball selection, but we do have several money line parlay options that can potentially be paired with our recommended pick or in any combination that you desire.
Remember that we are extremely selective with our recommended picks as they need to have at least a 60-percent win probability or better according to our proprietary algorithm and also must pass through a stringent set of rules that we consider for each matchup. Parlays always will have a lower win probability than straight bets, but there are times that a parlay will meet our requirements and be recommended. We realize that many sports bettors prefer not to bet very short odds that approach and exceed -200, so in our goal to provide as much information and help as many people as possible, we do provide potential parlay options that are strong bets that don't quite make the cut for us as well as other games that have betting edges but also don't quite meet our high standards to be recommended picks.
Our college basketball betting edges have performed well, hovering at around 56 to 57 percent over a large sample size since early November, and our parlay options have been extremely successful as you can see below.
StatLogic Sports Superstar Pick for 1/9
Superstar Picks have a 70% or better win probability
CBB: UMass Lowell money line -240 vs. Vermont (70% win probability) - LOSS
StatLogic Sports All-Star Picks for 1/9
All-Star Picks have a 60% or better win probability
NBA: Miami Heat -218 at Utah Jazz - WIN
Parlay City
While we usually don't recommend parlays - mainly because it decreases the win probability while increasing the potential payout - for those who aren't interested in laying the juice, combining two of our money line recommended picks or pairing one of our recommended picks with other picks we think have betting edges often can be very strong plays as well. They just may not be strong enough to meet the criteria for us to recommend them, though, and are "bet at your own risk" like the other games we post that have betting edtes.
Our potential money line parlay games from Jan. 4-6 were 19-1 ... they have gone 37-11 since Jan. 4 !!!
Potential Money Line Parlay Options for 1/9
NBA:
Miami Heat - WIN
CBB:
Umass Lowell - LOSS
Santa Clara - WIN
Delaware - WIN
Hampton - LOSS
North Dakota State - WIN
Liberty - WIN
UC Davis - WIN
Austin Peay - LOSS
Western Kentucky - LOSS
Eastern Kentucky - WIN
UNC Wimington - WIN
NCAA Basketball Season Betting Edge Record:
428-329-10 (56.5%)
Jan. 8 Record: 8-7-0
Jan. 7 Record: 7-9-1
Jan. 6 Record: 5-2-0
Jan. 5 Record: 6-3-0
Jan. 4 Record: 21-15-1
Jan. 3 Record: 5-6-0
Last 7 days: 73-56-3 (56.6%)
Last 29 days: 240-185-7 (56.5%)
Stat-Logic Sports NCAA College Basketball Betting Edges 1/9
UNC Greensboro +4 at Chattanooga - WIN
Purdue money line -130 at Rutgers - WIN
Monmouth +4.5 vs. UNC Wilmington - LOSS
Texas State +7 at Troy - WIN
Elon +2.5 at William & Mary - LOSS
Delaware -3.5 at North Carolina A&T - WIN
Charleston money line -115 at Hofstra - WIN
Wright State -3 vs. Oakland - WIN
Florida International +8 at Louisiana Tech - LOSS
Kennesaw State +9.5 at Middle Tennessee State - WIN
Louisiana Monroe +8.5 at Jacksonville State - LOSS
Washington +14 at Michigan State - LOSS
Grand Canyon -3.5 at Utah Valley - LOSS
Pacific +15 at Washington State - WIN
Binghamton +7 at Maine - LOSS
Our Process
We take a look at every single college and pro basketball game on the schedule every day. By using available data and a strict filtering progress, we are able to determine which games might present betting edges for us to examine more closely.
Since we are a small - but hopefully growing - family-oriented business, we only have so much manpower and bandwidth available to create content and break down games. Just trust us when we say that we follow a very detailed extensive process every day, which helps us weed out games, determine where there might be betting edges and ultimately determine which picks will meet our high standards to be the ones we recommend to clients and potential customers.
Because of the number of games that can be on the daily basketball docket - there were 130 college hoops games Saturday - and the attention we give to football now and baseball in the spring, there are some days when we don't have the time to break down our picks and potential picks and provide as much content as we like, so on days like that we may just post picks here or on our Twitter or BlueSky account.
Soon we also will be using TikTok, Instagram and YouTube to post picks, game breakdowns and other content as often ass possible. There also is a podcast in our future plans via which we will provide insight about games, picks and sports gambling to help anyone interested along their sports-gambling journey.
And we will continue to post and break down games that our model feels strongly about that are close to being recommended picks but don't make the cut for one reason or another. Those will be posted for anyone to see along with the games with betting edges you see below that we have been posting for several months now.
Those edges are presented in this space, along with any recommended picks from our proprietary algorithm, several times a week. Most of them will miss the cut to be recommended selections, because we have a very stringent set of requirements that must be met for a game to be released as an All-Star or Superstar Pick.
After analyzing as many as 50 different statistical categories and other factors for each contest, our proprietary algorithm proceeds to provide us with win probabilities for whichever games we run. Percentages are provided for spread bets, money-line bets and totals.
From there. we throw out any games that are below 60-percent win probability and then apply a rigorous set of rules and guidelines to each contest to determine which ones meet our final criteria. Information such as injuries, rest, coaching matchups, styles of play and pace, recent form and other data points are included in this process.
Once the process is complete, hopefully we are left with a few games that become recommended picks - and perhaps a few that narrowly miss the cut.
We usually don't recommend parlays, but we realize there are times when the short odds for one of our recommended picks makes betting a certain side prohibitive for some people. When that happens, although we may not recommend the parlay, we at least want to help those folks have the best chance of winning if that's the direction they choose to take.
So far in our tracking of college basketball games since the season opened in early November, the games we have determined to have betting edges have compiled a record of 428-329-10 (56.5%). All of our recommended picks that have been posted in all sports since mid-August have been winning consistently at about a 70-percent clip. ming +8 vs. New Mexico - PUSH
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