Happy Thanksgiving gamblers! Feast Week has been eventful across the college basketball landscape, with upsets abound and top-flight matchups galore. It’s safe to say this will be another excellent season on the hardwood and we should expect no different after a terrific 2022-23 campaign. Last season, I touted UConn at +2500 to win the National Championship and I hope you were able to cash with me! We’ll have plenty of time to add to our National Title portfolio before next year’s NCAA Tournament, but for now, let’s get into my best bets column for what should be a fantastic Thanksgiving Day slate.
While the lines for Thanksgiving Day having just been released, there are plenty of good value bets of which to take advantage. Let's take a look at my best bets for these games on Thanksgiving, but make sure you also check out our college basketball picks for the biggest games of the day.
Virginia Tech Hokies -1.5 over Boise State Broncos (-110)
I backed Virginia Tech earlier this season against South Carolina thinking that the backcourt of Hunter Cattoor and Sean Pedulla would dominate the game and lead the Hokies to victory. And while that didn’t exactly happen, we got pretty unlucky in the fact that Virginia Tech started off extremely slow from the field and shot just 31 percent from beyond the 3-point arc. That was only a 2-point loss against Gamecocks team that is ranked 10 spots higher in KenPom than this Boise State side. The Broncos defense has some holes, ranking outside the top 250 in effective FG%, and we saw those struggles in a recent game against Clemson, where they were shredded by the Tigers’ backcourt. I expect a similar outcome here as the Hokies should win and cover this short number in the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex.