The 2018 NCAA Tournament tips off Tuesday at 6:40 p.m. ET in Dayton, Ohio with a First Four matchup between Radford and LIU-Brooklyn that will determine which team meets top seed Villanova on Thursday. Radford is favored by 5.5 points, up 1.5 from the opening line. The over-under, or total number of points Vegas thinks will be scored, is 138, up one from the open.

With the line on the move for this matchup between teams you might not have seen play this year, you have to see what SportsLine's advanced computer has to say

This model, which simulates every game 10,000 times, enters the NCAA Tournament on a blistering 11-1 streak on its top-rated college basketball picks. It's also called nine of the 12 double-digit seed upsets in the first round of the NCAA Tournament over the past two years.

Now the computer has examined every matchup, every player and every trend for Radford vs. LIU-Brooklyn and its picks and projections are in.

We can tell you that it is calling for Carlik Jones to lead Radford with 17 points, while Joel Hernandez of LIU-Brooklyn leads all scorers with 21. But will that big performance be enough for the Blackbirds to cover? You can get the computer's point-spread pick that hits in more than 50 percent of simulations only over at SportsLine.

The model has taken into account Radford's seven-game winning streak coming into the NCAA Tournament.

The Highlanders tied for second in the regular season in the Big South, but grabbed an automatic tournament bid thanks to a strong run in the conference tournament. Radford's defense was the key -- allowing 53 points or fewer in all three Big South tournament games.

But that defense will be tested by a red-hot LIU-Brooklyn squad that just made a surprising run through the NEC tournament.

The Blackbirds, led by Joel Hernandez (20.9 ppg) and Raiquan Clark (17.4 ppg), come into the NCAA Tournament on a five-game winning streak that culminated with an upset over Wagner in the NEC tournament title game.

Their prolific offense, which ranks in the top 80 nationally with 77.5 points per game, will need to come up huge to punch a ticket to the Round of 64.

So what side of Radford vs. LIU-Brooklyn do you need to be all over? Visit SportsLine now to see the against-the-spread pick that hits over 50 percent of the time from the computer model on an 11-1 run on its top-rated college basketball picks.