Today's college basketball odds has the Big East Tournament and the Big 12 Tourney headlining. Also America's only openly gay sports handicapper Oscar Dooley gave only tacit support to US Rep Eric Mass. "I know the struggles of being a gay man, but I only grope men consensually," said the proprietor of a website ranked well below the Alexa Mendoza Line.
Handicapper Matt Rivers is the winningest college basketball handicapper ever in terms of winning percentage. Today he has Marquette minus the points. They are laying 3.5 at BetUs to St. John's.
I had the Red Storm yesterday against that piece of garbage team known as Connecticut and came out of that smelling like roses. The Johnnies are not bad as DJ Kennedy is a stud at times and Norm Stewart has slowly improved the St. John's program from the dreck over the past 5-10 years to a semi dangerous group. So why am I reversing course today?
Because I can see history repeat itself from a season ago. Last year St. John's reached this point after a solid opening round victory and then bam, they were absolutely whacked upside the head by the Golden Eagles. Dominique James is gone but Buzz Williams has done a great job leading Marquette to the 20-10 overall record and 11-7 mark in the rugged Big East.
Hayward, Johnson-Odom and Butler are quality players and the fresher team as they were off yesterday. I'm not saying that the Johnnies exactly had to break much of a sweat against Jim Calhoun's underachieving Huskies but these kids are not used to back-to-backs no matter how easy the previous game turned out and are definitely the less talented team to begin with, at home, on the road or on the Moon.
It's tough to lay anything with this Marquette team because when they win they only win by a few and a lot of times play games into overtime. But with that said and even at Madison Square Garden, which is going to seem like a road game, I can't pass up this fairly cheap price with the better and more rested squad.
The Golden Eagles have surprised a ton of people this season, as they have been better than most anticipated. I'm not saying they will go much further as they have the big boys on the docket after this but in the end today Marquette will pull out the win and the cover.
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