Southern Illinois vs. Drake Prediction: Drake Predicted to Win College Basketball Matchup [3/7/2025]

Drake and Southern Illinois will meet in college basketball action at Enterprise Center on Friday, with tipoff at 1:00PM ET.

Based on the latest simulation results, Dimers' advanced college basketball model (see Dimers Pro for full access) predicts Drake as the most likely winner of today's game.

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"Employing the latest data, our experts simulated Friday's Southern Illinois-Drake game 10,000 times," said Dimers' Chief Content Officer, Nick Slade.

"After computing the latest updates and thousands of other inputs, we predict Drake's chance of winning is 89%, while Southern Illinois' is 11%."

For a closer look at Friday's matchup, including an expanded look at the predicted score, best bets and picks, visit our interactive Southern Illinois vs. Drake predictions page.

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Southern Illinois vs. Drake Prediction: Who Will Win, Cover the Spread?

Using powerful machine learning and data, we have simulated the result of Friday's NCAA basketball game between Southern Illinois and Drake 10,000 times as part of our college basketball predictions coverage.

Our leading predictive model gives Drake an 89% chance of defeating Southern Illinois. Our predicted final score has Drake winning 71-59.

According to our model, Drake (-10.5) has a 58% chance of covering the spread, while the 127.5-point over/under has a 55% chance of going over.

Southern Illinois vs. Drake Odds

We have sourced the best College Basketball odds in America for this game, which are listed here:

Bet Type	Southern Illinois	Drake
Spread	+10.5 (-105)	-10.5 (-115)
Moneyline	+550	-650
Total	o127.5 (-110)	u127.5 (-110)

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

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Our model's strongest edge in today's Southern Illinois vs. Drake matchup is on the total.

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Southern Illinois vs. Drake Game-Day Updates and Essential Details

Friday's college basketball action between Drake and Southern Illinois at Enterprise Center is scheduled to start at 1:00PM ET.

• Who: Southern Illinois vs. Drake
• Date: Friday, March 7, 2025
• Time: 1:00PM ET/10:00AM PT
• Venue: Enterprise Center

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Conclusion

We predict Drake, with an 89% win probability, will likely beat Southern Illinois on Friday.

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