NCAA Basketball: Game picks for Day 12 of 2023-24 season
By Bryan Mauro
Friday features a number of quality NCAA Basketball day games, including Dayton vs St. John’s. Who’ll win that and other matchups?
What a day we had on Thursday. The Charleston Classic and Myrtle Beach Invitational had almost every game come down to the wire and we got to see some buzzer beaters today. There were also some other great games throughout the day. Missouri beat Minnesota at Williams Arena by using a 31-9 run over the last 10 minutes of the game to erase a 20-point deficit. UMass Lowell almost made it two wins over Power 5 teams in the same week but blew a late lead to Arizona State. Finally, the Presbyterian Blue Hose are undefeated. They won 5 games last season and have started this season at 4-0 with a win over Vanderbilt and have won games on the road.
I didn’t start out well on the day as I lost the first game of the day but had a nice recovery and went 25-7 overall on the day for a total of 360-96. There are a lot more tournaments that get started today and there are going to be more great games with huge tournament implications even in November. Game picks for the straight up winners for Day 12 on November 17, 2023 are below.
UMBC over Sacred Heart
North Texas over LSU
Vermont over Saint Louis
Fordham over Norfolk State
Georgia State over Northern Illinois
Dayton over St. John’s
South Dakota over VMI
Charleston over Wyoming
San Jose State over Abilene Christian
Miami over Georgia
South Alabama over Denver
Omaha over Lindenwood
Gardner-Webb- over Weber State
Maine over Presbyterian
Houston over Utah
Fort Wayne over Northern Arizona
Oklahoma State over Notre Dame
Winthrop over Holy Cross
Quinnipiac over Army
Kent State over Hampton
Duke over Bucknell
Grambling over Delaware State
Colgate over Yale
Providence over Kansas State
Michigan State over Butler
Air Force over William & Mary
Youngstown State over Utah Tech
Coastal Carolina over Furman
Kentucky over Stonehill
James Madison over Radford
Eastern Kentucky over UT Martin
Nicholls over SIUE
Penn State over Morehead State
Davidson over ETSU
Tulane over Sacramento State
Miami Ohio over Coppin State
Bowling Green over Bellarmine
Wisconsin over Robert Morris
North Florida over Northwestern State
Duquesne over Rider
NC State over Charleston Southern
Saint Bonaventure over Auburn
Wake Forest over Towson
Harvard over UMass
Michigan over Long Beach State
Pitt over Jacksonville
Saint Joseph’s over Texas A&M Commerce.
Drexel over Fairfield
Florida State over Florida
Vanderbilt over Central Arkansas
St Thomas over Cal Poly
IUPUI over Elon
Samford over South Carolina State
Texas A&M over Oral Roberts
Arkansas over UNC Greensboro
North Carolina over Riverside
Alabama over Mercer
Illinois over Valpo
Iowa over Arkansas State
Western Illinois over Southern
Oklahoma over UT Rio Grande Valley
Memphis over Alabama State
TCU over Mississippi Valley State
Florida Gulf Coast over Missouri State
Texas State over UTSA
Villanova over Maryland
UTEP over Austin Peay
Sam Houston over Ole Miss
Oregon over Tennessee State
Stanford over Eastern Washington
San Francisco over Grand Canyon
Liberty over Wichita State
Colorado State over Kansas City
San Diego State over Saint Mary’s
San Diego over Le Moyne
Cal Baptist over Portland State
Pepperdine over UNLV
Arizona over Belmont
South Carolina over DePaul
Xavier over Washington
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Tournament play resumes today and no one is ever safe during Feast Week. Stanford should be on upset alert against Eastern Washington. Saint Bonaventure is a team I picked to win and will give Auburn a great game. Hopefully the Bonnies can pull it off. San Diego State and Saint Mary’s is the game of the night. It is hard to believe that after tonight one of those teams will have a .500 record. It is early and they will both waltz to the NCAA tournament but were those teams not as good as we all thought? Enjoy the games and see you again tomorrow.