The 2025-26 NCAA Men's College Basketball regular season steams along Tuesday night, with neutral-floor marquee games featuring the Michigan State Spartans and Kentucky Wildcats meeting in New York City, while the Kansas Jayhawks and Duke Blue Devils meet in the nightcap at Madison Square Garden, both on ESPN.
We're here to help provide a trio of picks on select days throughout the week, hopefully helping you get into the black, as we head into the holidays and the new year. It's never too early to start squirreling away money for March Madness.
College Basketball PrizePicks Picks & Strategy
If you're unfamiliar with how to play, you must simply choose at least two players from any sport and pick more or less based on their projected statistics to win. We'll obviously be exclusively selecting college hoops players, but you can mix and match from various other sports. You can also go with a flex play, meaning you still can have a winning night even if you have one losing selection. Or, you can go big and choose the power play, which pays out higher. However, you must hit all ends to win. Let's get started.
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Mouhamed Dioubate, F, Kentucky 
Dioubate has been productive this season, as the 6-foot-7 junior from Queens has rolled to 12.0 points (PPG), 6.8 rebounds (RPG) and 1.5 assists (APG) per game, while hitting 67.9 percent from the field.
However, most of his impressive stat lines, including 20 points and 11 rebounds against Eastern Illinois last time out on Friday, have come against poor teams. In Kentucky's biggest test last Tuesday in Louisville, the Wildcats lost 96-88, and he was good for just seven points, four rebounds and one assist in 18 minutes.
We'll go low on Dioubate's totals, as he struggled in his only previous game against a power conference opponent.
CBB PrizePicks Selection: Mouhamed Dioubate, Under 14.5 Pts+Rebs
Henri Veesaar, C, North Carolina 
Veesaar was a reserve player at the University of Arizona in his first two seasons. The 7-footer from Tallinn, Estonia averaged 9.4 PPG, 5.0 RPG and 1.3 APG in 37 games and five starts for the Wildcats in 2024-25.
Veesaar moved to Chapel Hill, and he has fired out of the chute with 16.0 PPG, 8.0 RPG and 2.0 BPG with 1.8 APG through his first four starts.
Veesaar and his UNC teammates should have tremendous success against Navy at the Dean Dome on Tuesday, as the Middies are allowing 74.0 PPG, while teams are hitting 45.1 percent against them from the field, and 31.6 percent from behind the 3-point arc.
CBB PrizePicks Selection: Henri Veesaar, Over 22.5 Pts+Rebs+Asts
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Patrick Ngongba, C, Duke 
We're going to go with both of the bigs on Tobacco Road on Tuesday night. Ngongba has a little bit tougher of a matchup than Veesaar has against Navy, though.
Ngongba and his Blue Devils will face Kansas at Madison Square Garden in the nightcap. The Jayhawks have a strong defense, allowing just 60.3 PPG, but three of those games are against Green Bay, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Princeton, so the jury is still out on how effective the KU defense is. We saw North Carolina hang 87 points on Kansas down 15-501 from 'Dook' at the Dean Dome against the only real opponent Rock Chalk has faced.
Ngongba's projections are lowered because of the big-time matchup, but Ngongba should be able to step up his game. He scored 10 points with four boards and two assists against Texas in Las Vegas in the opener on Nov. 4, but he also spent a lot of that game in foul trouble. If he can avoid the refs' whistle, he'll be just fine here.
CBB PrizePicks Selection: Patrick Ngongba, Over 17.5 Pts+Rebs+Asts
Tuesday's College Basketball PrizePicks Picks
Here's a recap of my best college basketball selections for Tuesday:
- Mouhamed Dioubate, Arizona, Under 14.5 Pts+Rebs
- Henri Veesaar, North Carolina, Over 22.5 Pts+Rebs+Asts
- Patrick Ngongba, Duke, Over 17.5 Pts+Rebs+Asts
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