That is a lot of games. That is a lot of teams. There are 363 Division I teams and 295 of them are scheduled to be in action on Saturday. Chicago State plays a lower-division team, but the other 146 games feature Division I foes going head-to-head. For the purposes of this article, the time difference, the sheer size of the card and some lead time for readers before the games tip off means that I’ll be focusing on the later games, generally looking at 2 p.m. ET or later, so that cuts it down a little bit.

It is a girthy card in college basketball on Thursday with 140 of the nation’s 363 Division I teams in action. That means we’ve got a ton of conferences and a ton of games to handicap. The same will be true of Saturday, as I’ll do my first edition of a Saturday college basketball best bets piece this week, just before hitting the airwaves to do Live Bet Saturday with my long lost “step brother” Danny Burke. Previously, I had only done Monday-Friday, but with the NFL solely on Sundays now, it’s time to sink my teeth into the enormous Saturday slates.

Thursday brings us a monster card, but I’m still jumping for joy about winning an under in an overtime game. It’s like finding the golden ticket to the chocolate factory or not getting a hangover after drinking with buddies you haven’t seen in a while.