Arkansas-Pine Bluff Golden Lions

The Golden Lions played their first 11 games of 2025-26 on the road and won one of them, 63-62 at UIC as a +950 underdog. That night and a run of SWAC road upsets left their moneyline 5.21 units ahead.

Eleven road games to start

Arkansas-Pine Bluff did not play at home until 15 December. The opening run was 1-10, through games at SMU, Vanderbilt, Marshall and Tulsa, several of them without a moneyline posted. November ended 0-8 and 4.0 units down.

The one win was the season’s biggest price: 63-62 at UIC on 3 December, getting 16.5 points and +950. December finished 3-2 and 7.5 units up.

Road underdog

The Golden Lions finished 6-14 on the road, yet one unit on their 16 priced road games returned 7.02, 26th in Division I. Getting points, the Lions went 6-15, covered 11 of 21, and the 17 priced underdog games made 7.0. The other long road wins came at Southern, 75-74 at +340, and at Grambling, 67-64 at +215.

Favored, and missing

The spread was hardest on them as favorites: two covers in nine, with only 21 programs in the country lower on that count. The shortest price they lost at was a 70-69 home defeat to Mississippi Valley State at -1200.

The season line

Over 32 games the Golden Lions went 13-19 and covered 13 of 30. They allowed 81.03 points a game; only 23 Division I teams allowed more. The total split 16 unders and 14 overs. At home the Golden Lions went 7-4, two of those wins over Ecclesia and Champion Christian with no line, and covered three of nine lined home games. January was their best month in the standings, 5-3 and 3.57 units up; February went 4-4 with two covers in eight.

Southern split two meetings with the Golden Lions, the second of them the SWAC quarterfinal, and Arkansas-Pine Bluff covered both.

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