NCAA Basketball: Game picks for Day 9 of 2023-24 season

With the Champions Classic, Gavitt Games and other big matchups, this Tuesday is filled with compelling NCAA Basketball games.

Welcome to Champions Classic day. This is the best day of the early season regular season basketball until Feast Week. There are a lot of ranked teams playing today including the overall number 1 team in the country. Yesterday proved there were a lot of things that we didn’t know about teams. Michigan and UTEP looked the most impressive and picked up huge wins early in the season. Is it possible everyone was wrong about the Wolverines?  They are a legit squad that is going to make noise in the Big Ten.

Yesterday I went 20-6 for the day and that improved my record to 271-66 overall. The Tuesday slate is fantastic with games from the Gavitt event, the Champions Classic, and campus games from various other MTE’s. There was an upset again yesterday when Penn knocked off Villanova in the Palestra making it 7 out of 8 days to open the season with an upset. There is going to be one today and hopefully I pick it right. Picks for day 9 of the NCAA basketball season on November 14th, 2023 are below.

UC Davis over North Dakota State

Providence over Wisconsin

Tennessee over Wofford

La Salle over Bucknell

UConn over Mississippi Valley State

Michigan State over Duke

Florida Atlantic over Eastern Michigan

Morehead State over Mercer

Jacksonville over Georgia Southern

Chattanooga over Bellarmine

Indiana State over IUPUI

Lipscomb over Tennessee Tech

Temple over Drexel

Penn State over St Francis Pa

Oakland over Bowling Green

Syracuse over Colgate

Rhode Island over Wagner

Queens over High Point

Harvard over Northeastern

Hofstra over George Washington

Sacred Heart over Holy Cross

Wright State over Toledo

Saint Joseph’s over Stonehill

Florida over Florida A & M

West Virginia over Jacksonville State

Virginia over North Carolina A & T

Brown over New Hampshire

Howard over Boston University

Mississippi State over North Alabama

UMass Lowell over Georgia Tech

Marquette over Illinois

Texas A&M over SMU

Alabama over South Alabama

Abilene Christian over Prairie View

Arkansas State over Alcorn State

Vanderbilt over UNC Greensboro

Ole Miss over Detroit Mercy

Murray State over Western Kentucky

Green Bay over Valpo

Chicago State over Cal State Northridge

Colorado State over Northern Colorado

Bradley over Tarleton State

Oklahoma over Texas State

Lamar over UTSA

Northwestern over Western Michigan

TCU over UT Rio Grande Valley

Loyola Chicago over Illinois-Chicago

Colorado over Milwaukee

DePaul over South Dakota

Utah State over Southern Utah

Stanford over Santa Clara

Kansas over Kentucky

Creighton over Iowa

Baylor over Kansas City

San Diego State over Long Beach State

Loyola Marymount over Jackson State

Appalachian State over Oregon State

USC over UC Irvine

Hawaii finally gets on the board against a non Division 1 school. After tomorrow night every team will have played at least one game. There are some games that have extreme upset potential. I do like Milwaukee to keep the game with Colorado close for awhile. Appalachian State should beat Oregon State, but don’t know if they do in Corvallis.

Finally, will DePaul finally win a game against South Dakota?  Who knows the Blue Demons have struggled a lot out of the gates. Enjoy the games and see you tomorrow.