PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Sunday, February 6, 2022

Home	Visitors	Spread
Georgetown	Providence	-7.1
Ohio St.	Maryland	9.3
Niagara	Iona	-7.5
Canisius	Manhattan	1.5
Purdue Fort Wayne	Green Bay	8.1
Missouri St.	Loyola Chicago	0.5
Quinnipiac	Monmouth	-4.7
Saint Peter’s	Marist	4.0
Fairfield	Siena	7.2
Cleveland St.	Milwaukee	10.4
San Diego St.	Nevada	11.2
Stanford	Washington	5.9
Miami (O)	Akron	-0.7
Iowa	Minnesota	11.0
Cincinnati	Houston	-8.1
Fresno St.	Wyoming	2.0

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Sunday, January 30, 2022

Home	Visitors	Spread
Brown	Cornell	4.5
Purdue	Ohio St.	9.2
East Carolina	Cincinnati	-5.9
Wright St.	Purdue Fort Wayne	4.4
Northern Kentucky	Cleveland St.	-1.4
George Washington	Fordham	-1.5
Providence	Marquette	1.1
Wisconsin	Minnesota	9.2
Fairleigh Dickinson	Central Connecticut	1.3
Bryant	Long Island	5.1
Iona	Saint Peter’s	11.1
Morgan St.	Delaware St.	14.1
St. Francis (NY)	Wagner	-11.8
Drake	Loyola (Chi.)	-3.2
Bradley	Indiana St.	7.9
Massachusetts	George Mason	8.7
Siena	Quinnipiac	0.4
Manhattan	Marist	-2.0
Monmouth	Niagara	8.5
Rider	Canisius	1.9
Boston College	Pittsburgh	4.0
Southern Illinois	Valparaiso	5.8
Bucknell	Loyola (MD)	-3.9
McNeese St.	New Orleans	0.7
Washington St.	Colorado	5.8

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Sunday, January 16, 2022

Home	Visitors	Spread
Villanova	Butler	16.8
Ohio St.	Penn St.	8.7
Wichita St.	Cincinnati	2.5
Boston U	Navy	-0.8
Maine	Binghamton	-3.8
Iona	Niagara	10.4
Lafayette	Army	-2.1
American	Bucknell	1.3
Marist	Monmouth	-3.5
Quinnipiac	Fairfield	-0.7
Manhattan	Canisius	4.0
Rider	Saint Peter’s	-2.0
Minnesota	Iowa	-4.4
Southern Miss.	Louisiana Tech	-13.5
St. John’s	Georgetown	9.1
Lehigh	Loyola (MD)	-1.8
Illinois St.	Bradley	-2.9

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Sunday, January 9, 2022

Home	Visitors	Spread
Indiana	Minnesota	9.9
Harvard	Yale	1.1
Evansville	Illinois St.	-0.5
Memphis	Cincinnati	8.3
Colorado	Washington	8.2
Ohio St.	Northwestern	7.6
Maryland	Wisconsin	-0.4

PiRate Picks–October 21-23, 2021

What a minor difference a week made! After just missing on three big-payout parlays two weeks ago, we played the same strategy last week and made a minor splash thanks to the help of one long shot parlay that won and returned better than 3 to 1 odds. With another win at +187, we made a small profit last week, but large enough to turn our minor net loss for the season into a net gain of 2.3%.

Of course, as we say every week, our financial loss or gain is merely imaginary, as we are playing with imaginary funds that never run out but never accrue. This feature is presented just for fun, and we strongly urge you not to wager real money on what you read here, unless it merely validates your research.

This week presents the fewest number of games that met our criteria this year in any week. We could only go with four parlays of two teams apiece. None are major long shots, but they all top +120, which is the minimum odds we will play. Enjoy!

Date:	October 21-25
Odds:	+187
Must Win	Opponent
Central Florida	Memphis
Notre Dame	USC
Odds:	+147.40
Must Win	Opponent
Eastern Michigan	Bowling Green
Kent St.	Ohio U
Odds:	+138.99
Must Win	Opponent
San Jose St.	UNLV
Ball St.	Miami (O)
Odds:	+131.08
Must Win	Opponent
Minnesota	Maryland
TCU	West Virginia

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	2/22/2021
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Gonzaga	Baylor	Michigan	Ohio St.
2	Illinois	Alabama	Villanova	Houston
3	Iowa	Oklahoma	West Virginia	Virginia
4	Florida St.	Kansas	Texas	Texas Tech
5	Tennessee	USC	Creighton	Purdue
6	Wisconsin	Missouri	Virginia Tech	Arkansas
7	Clemson	Oklahoma St.	Florida	BYU
8	Rutgers	Colorado	LSU	Oregon
9	UCLA	Loyola (Chi.)	Louisville	San Diego St.
10	Boise St.	North Carolina	Maryland	Drake
11	Colorado St.	Indiana	St. Bonaventure	Seton Hall
12	Western Ky.	Belmont	VCU	Xavier	Ga. Tech	Syracuse
13	UCSB	Winthrop	Toledo	Colgate
14	UNCG	Stephen F. Austin	Liberty	Wright St.
15	South Dakota	Grand Canyon	Iona	Vermont
16	E. Washington	Wagner	Texas St.	James Madison	Prairie View	N. C. A&T

PiRate Ratings College Basketball Spreads

February 11, 2021

Home	Visitor	Spread
Kansas	Iowa St.	12.3
Minnesota	Purdue	0.1
Air Force	Fresno St.	-5.3
Boise St.	UNLV	10.1
California	Utah	-6.3
Stanford	Colorado	-2.4
Arizona	adoOregon St.	10.1
Arizona St.	Oregon	-2.4
Washington	USC	-13.7
Washington St.	UCLA	-5.5

An answer to a frequent question: Will you have Bracketnomics this year?

Answer: We plan to introduce an updated, new Bracketnomics edition this year. We actually hoped to have this debut last season, but obviously, the nasty virus ended the basketball season just before the NCAA Tournament brackets were chosen.

Another Question from many of you: Where have you been? You have not produced what you normally have.

Answer: Our basketball ratings were delayed because the ratings are based on advanced statistical metrics produce too much variance until about 3,500 total games have been played. Many teams have played too few games to lower the variance.

Additionally, we have been working many hours creating an advanced sabermetric tabletop baseball strategy game, one that includes many factors that other games do not have. We hope to be ready to debut this game in March. Stay tuned to this page for information on the new game and its website.

PiRate Picks for December 4-7, 2020

A Day Late — Hopefully Not A Dollar Short

We are publishing our most popular weekly feature at the PiRate Ratings a day later than normal. Four weeks of issuing some interesting parlays that we had a lot of faith in as winners only to see the games cancel the day that we published them forced us to take an extra 24 hours to try to eliminate the chances that we would see five parlays become void just after putting them out on this forum. Additionally, we tried to avoid games that involved teams that have forewarned that even as late as Friday afternoon, they could decide not to play. Also, there is the case of one team that is in danger of not having enough scholarship players remaining. Their choices would be to fold up operations for the year or play under the 53-man (or in this case 53-man and woman) limit.

Last week, we broke even, which is no fun. Our winning week was just a minute from being guaranteed, until the Baltimore Ravens scored at the end to make that game a push. It happens.

This week, we are stressing money line parlays paying off at better than even money odds. November was very kind to us in these plays, as we made a big fat profit on these better than +100 odds games. We are only going with one NFL selection, but in our statistical minds, it is our best parlay of the entire season–kiss of death!

Before looking at our selections for the week, please remember, that we have lost no money this year or any past year when issuing these selections, because we NEVER wager a penny on them. All of our picks are made with imaginary money at an imaginary book. We do know from your feedback that many of you actually use this site for wagering advice, but we don’t understand why. If you want to throw away hard-earned money because of something you read here, why not just donate that amount to a worthy charity. Our favorite charity with the five lasses that help me here on the PiRate ship is “Save A Fox” in Faribault, Minnesota: https://www.saveafox.org/.

Enjoy the selections, and the way to enjoy them is by keeping your money in your wallet.

College Money Line Parlays
1. 2-teams at +107.96
Must Win	Opponent	Odds
Miami (Fla.)	Duke	+107.96
Missouri	Arkansas
2. 3-teams at +145.28
Must Win	Opponent	Odds
Western Mich.	Eastern Mich.
Washington	Stanford	;+145.28
Cincinnati	Tulsa
3. 2-teams at +173.41
Must Win	Opponent	Odds
Texas A&M	Auburn	+173.41
Central Mich.	Ball St.
4. 3-teams at +124.20 CANCELLED!
Must Win	Opponent	Odds
Kentucky	S. Carolina
Buffalo (BU was en route to Ohio)	Ohio	+124.20
Iowa St.	West Va.
5. 3-teams at +153.92
Must Win	Opponent	Odds
Toledo	N. Illinois
San Diego St.	Colorado St.	+153.92
NC St.	Georgia Tech
6. College 10-point Teaser at -110
Selection	Opponent	Spread
TCU	Oklahoma St.	+11
Nebraska	Purdue	+11
Memphis	Tulane	+11.5
7. College 10-point Teaser at -110
Selection	Opponent	Spread
Fla. Atlantic	Ga. Southern	+12.5
San Jose St.	Hawaii	+11
Oklahoma	Baylor	-11.5
8. College 10-point Teaser at -110
Selection	Opponent	Spread
Nevada	Fresno St.	+3.5
Oregon St.	Utah	+21.5
USC	Washington St.	-2.5
9. NFL 10-point Teaser at -110
Selection	Opponent	Spread
Minnesota	Jacksonville	Pk
Miami	Cincinnati	-1.5
Seattle	N.Y. Giants	-0.5

PiRate Ratings College Basketball For February 26, 2020

Wednesday’s Games

 

Home	Visitor	Spread
Abilene Christian	Sam Houston St.	3.8
Air Force	New Mexico	-1.4
American	Lafayette	2.6
Arkansas	Tennessee	5.5
Army	Holy Cross	11.7
Boston College	Notre Dame	-5.1
Bucknell	Colgate	-4.8
California Baptist	Utah Valley	7.7
Citadel	Mercer	-6.0
Connecticut	Central Florida	8.3
Florida	LSU	3.4
Fordham	Rhode Island	-12.8
George Washington	Richmond	-8.7
Houston Baptist	Nicholls	-8.9
Illinois St.	Bradley	-3.8
Lamar	Incarnate Word	12.9
Lehigh	Boston U	-6.0
Long Beach St.	Cal St. Northridge	0.7
Louisiana	Arkansas St.	2.0
Maine	New Hampshire	-2.8
Manhattan	Marist	6.3
Marquette	Georgetown	7.2
Massachusetts	VCU	-6.8
McNeese	Southeast Louisiana	10.0
Minnesota	Maryland	-0.2
Navy	Loyola (MD)	3.4
New Orleans	Texas A&M-CC	2.0
Northern Iowa	Evansville	18.4
Omaha	North Dakota	4.6
Penn St.	Rutgers	6.3
Pittsburgh	Syracuse	0.4
Purdue Fort Wayne	Denver	6.2
Quinnipiac	Siena	-2.8
Saint Louis	Saint Joseph’s	14.3
South Carolina	Georgia	5.8
South Florida	East Carolina	8.6
Southern Illinois	Indiana St.	0.4
St. Bonaventure	Duquesne	1.4
Stanford	Utah	9.6
Stephen F. Austin	Northwestern St.	15.6
Stony Brook	Hartford	9.7
UMass Lowell	Albany	1.9
UMBC	Binghamton	10.0
UNC Greensboro	Furman	4.0
UNLV	Boise St.	0.5
Vanderbilt	Missouri	-1.5
Villanova	St. John’s	10.4
Virginia Tech	Virginia	-0.3
VMI	Chattanooga	-2.9
Western Carolina	Samford	11.4
Wofford	East Tennessee St.	-4.0

 

Key TV Games on Wednesday Night

 

Time (EST)	Network	Home	Visitor
7:00 PM	BTN	Penn St.	Rutgers
7:00 PM	ESPN+	UNC Greensboro	Furman
8:30 PM	FS1	Marquette	Georgetown
8:30 PM	SECN	Arkansas	Tennessee
9:00 PM	BTN	Minnesota	Maryland
9:00 PM	ESPN2	Florida	LSU
10:00 PM	Pac12	Stanford	Utah

 

 

 

 

 

 

PiRate Ratings College Basketball For February 16, 2020

Sunday’s Games

 

Home	Visitor	Spread
Boise St.	San Diego St.	-6.8
Boston College	North Carolina St.	-5.0
California	Arizona St.	-5.8
Connecticut	Memphis	1.9
Drake	Evansville	9.9
East Carolina	Cincinnati	-10.6
Fordham	Duquesne	-8.2
Indiana St.	Missouri St.	5.2
Iona	Marist	7.1
Loyola (MD)	Colgate	-6.9
Maine	Albany	-3.7
Michigan	Indiana	6.3
Minnesota	Iowa	2.0
Niagara	Monmouth	-2.4
Northern Kentucky	Illinois Chicago	9.9
Omaha	Denver	9.4
Oregon	Utah	12.3
Rider	Quinnipiac	6.5
Saint Peter’s	Fairfield	6.6
Siena	Manhattan	6.4
South Dakota St.	Purdue Fort Wayne	12.4
Temple	Villanova	-6.0
Wichita St.	Tulane	15.9
Wright St.	IUPUI	17.8

 

Sunday’s Key Games *

 

Time (EST)	Network	Home	Visitor
1:00 PM	FS1	Minnesota	Iowa
1:00 PM	CBS	Michigan	Indiana
2:00 PM	ESPN3	Siena	Manhattan
4:00 PM	CBSSN	Boise St.	San Diego St.

* When we refer to these as key games, this is when both teams are fighting for a conference championship or contending for an at-large NCAA Tournament bid.

 

Coming Monday–Updated Ratings, Monday’s Games, and New Bracketology.