Louisiana-Monroe vs. Louisiana-Lafayette prediction: Louisiana-Lafayette favored to win men's college basketball matchup [1/8/2026]

Louisiana-Lafayette and Louisiana-Monroe will meet in men's college basketball action at Cajundome on Thursday, starting at 8:30 PM ET.

Based on updated simulation results, Dimers' advanced college basketball model predicts Louisiana-Lafayette as the most likely winner of the Louisiana-Monroe vs. Louisiana-Lafayette game.

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

Louisiana-Monroe vs. Louisiana-Lafayette prediction: Who will win and cover?

Using trusted machine learning and data, we have simulated the result of Thursday's NCAA basketball game between Louisiana-Monroe and Louisiana-Lafayette 10,000 times as part of our men's college basketball predictions coverage.

Our independent predictive model currently gives Louisiana-Lafayette an 80% chance of beating Louisiana-Monroe. Our predicted final score has Louisiana-Lafayette winning 73-65.

According to our model, Louisiana-Lafayette (-7.5) has a 55% chance of covering the spread, while the over/under total of 140.5 points has a 52% chance of staying under.

Louisiana-Monroe vs. Louisiana-Lafayette 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.

Louisiana-Monroe vs. Louisiana-Lafayette picks and best bet

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