NCAA Basketball: Picks for day 21 of 2023-24 season
By Bryan Mauro
Sunday is the end of the Feast Week festivities and over the last 10 days there has been some quality NCAA Basketball.
After the first 20 days of the season it appears the bottom of the Big East is going to be bad. DePaul lost again, this time to Northern Illinois and that drops their record to 1-5. Georgetown did win but they struggled to beat Jackson State. As unimpressive as the bottom of the Big East is, the Ohio State Buckeyes are a team that is showing to be better than I had initially thought they were. Ohio State had a great weekend with wins over Oregon and Santa Clara in the Emerald Coast Classic. Ohio State was the most impressive team of the weekend so far.
Yesterday I went 43-18. That gives me a 20 day total of 703-233. Tomorrow is the official end of Feast Week and we will see an end to the ESPN Events Invitational and some other power five schools get some more tuneups before the schedules pick up in December. The picks for day 21 November 25 2023 are below.
VCU over Penn State
Middle Tennessee over Kansas City
Western Kentucky over UNC Asheville
Belmont over Lafayette
Florida Atlantic over Virginia Tech
Louisville over New Mexico State
La Salle over Coppin State
Appalachian State over Austin Peay
Delaware State over Lamar
Eastern Michigan over Central Arkansas
Saint Joseph’s over Sacred Heart
Lipscomb over Wofford
Ohio over Brown
South Dakota over Air Force
Colorado over Iona
Nebraska over Fullerton
Texas A&M Commerce over Denver
Chattanooga over Southeast Missouri State
Coastal Carolina over NC Central
Fairleigh Dickinson over Robert Morris
Old Dominion over Drexel
Quinnipiac over Stonehill
Penn over Monmouth
Texas over Wyoming
SMU over Louisiana Monroe
Longwood over Bethune
Central Arkansas over New Orleans
Jacksonville State over Incarnate Word
Canisius over Bowling Green
Towson over Morgan State
Yale over Rhode Island
Western Carolina over North Alabama
Boise State over Butler
Long Beach State over Montana State
UCF over Stetson
Delaware over George Washington
Harvard over Indiana
Siena over Albany
West Virginia over Bellarmine
Pacific over Mississippi Valley State
Kent State over Charleston
Seattle over UC San Diego
FIU over Kennesaw State
Texas A&M Over Iowa State
Illinois Chicago over UNC Greensboro
UC Davis over Sacramento State
San Francisco over Minnesota
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If you are looking for games to watch especially if your NFL team is not playing tomorrow. The Iowa State and Texas A&M game, Harvard and Indiana, and Florida Atlantic and Virginia Tech are the best games on the slate. If Mid major basketball is more your speed the Sacred Heart and Saint Joseph’s, Robert Morris and Fairleigh Dickinson, and Yale and Rhode Island are the best games of the day on the mid major side. Minnesota is a power five that is on upset watch. Harvard and Indiana is another game that has tremendous upset potential. Enjoy the Games and see you tomorrow.