Editor’s Note: For a little more than three years now, Joe has been publishing picks here and back at All Things NIT, our former site. Overall, the results have been positive, with an average return on investment, per pick, of 0.6% when weighting by confidence (1 for low, 2 for medium, 3 for high) across 1,959 published picks, not including bets that remain pending, like futures. 0.6% doesn’t sound amazing, but relative to what else you get on the internet?
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Lines for these come from the Vegas consensus or the closest approximation available at the time picks are written, unless otherwise noted. KenPom is heavily used in making college basketball picks. ESPN’s SP+ is heavily used in making college football picks of all kinds, and FPI is used in making conference championship futures picks.
Iowa @ Wisconsin
Is Wisconsin going to suffer a letdown after that upset of Purdue on Monday? Maybe. But you shouldn’t expect Iowa to sneak up on anyone in the Big Ten, or at least not on Wisconsin, who’s lost to the Hawkeyes four straight times now. Hard times will come for the Badgers, but tonight shouldn’t be the start.
Pick: Wisconsin -3.5 (-110). Low confidence.
