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College Basketball Best Bets: Buffs Aren't as Strong on the Road

College basketball experts Three Man Weave and SI Gambling Producer Max Meyer are back with their four best bets for Thursday's slate, including rolling with three Pac-12 home teams. We're using the current odds from William Hill (as of 11:36 a.m. EST) for these plays.

Cal State Northridge at UC Riverside
3MW Pick: Cal State Northridge +3.5

I’ll start this writeup with a shameless plug for Matt Cox’s Mid Major Reinforcements piece on our website, because the biggest reason for this pick lies at the heart of that article’s premise: Lamine Diane, CSUN’s preternaturally talented forward who sat out the first semester due to “academics” (whatever those are).