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College Basketball Best Bets: An Upset Could Be Bruin in the Pac-12

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

3MW Pick: Illinois State -5.5

Who’s hyped for Arch Madness?!

Since 1991, St. Louis has been the headquarters of the Missouri Valley Championship, and for one long weekend each year, the "Gateway to the West" becomes the "Gateway to the Dance." Tonight, the journey begins for the Valley’s bottom-four seeds—Illinois State, Indiana State, Valparaiso and Evansville—who are faced with the Everest-sized challenge of winning four games in just as many days to claim the MVC’s automatic bid.