College Basketball Best Bets: Duck and Cover Before March

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

3MW Pick: Old Dominion -1

Jeff Jones doesn’t need any eloquent pep talk to get his Monarchs ready to play tonight. All he needs to do is simply write the following on the locker room whiteboard: 67–49.

That was the score with just under five minutes left in first meeting between these two, with the Monarchs holding a comfortable 18-point lead over the host Roadrunners. From that point on, ODU played with a nervous complacency while UTSA charged back with a fearless desperation. By the time the clock struck…