Eastern Illinois vs. Arkansas-Little Rock prediction: Why Arkansas-Little Rock is favored to win men's college basketball matchup [1/15/2026]

Arkansas-Little Rock and Eastern Illinois will lock horns in men's college basketball action at Jack Stephens Center on Thursday, with tipoff at 8:00 PM ET.

Based on the latest simulations, Dimers' advanced college basketball model predicts Arkansas-Little Rock as the most likely winner of the Eastern Illinois vs. Arkansas-Little Rock game.

This article offers an expanded analysis of Thursday's matchup, including an expanded look at the predicted score, best bets and picks.

Eastern Illinois vs. Arkansas-Little Rock prediction: Who will win and cover?

Using powerful machine learning and statistical analysis, we have simulated the outcome of Thursday's NCAA basketball game between Eastern Illinois and Arkansas-Little Rock 10,000 times as part of our men's college basketball predictions coverage.

Our famous predictive model currently gives Arkansas-Little Rock a 72% chance of beating Eastern Illinois. Our predicted final score has Arkansas-Little Rock winning 70-64.

According to our model, Eastern Illinois (+6.5) has a 55% chance of covering the spread, while the over/under total of 133.5 points has a 52% chance of going over.

Eastern Illinois vs. Arkansas-Little Rock odds

We have researched the best men's college basketball odds in America for this game, which are listed here:

All odds are correct at the time of publication and are subject to change.

Eastern Illinois vs. Arkansas-Little Rock picks and best bet

After matching our probabilities against the best current odds, we can reveal our picks for each of the major markets. Plus, find our best bet for the game below: