{"id":12569,"date":"2011-01-18T10:52:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T15:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=12569"},"modified":"2011-01-18T10:52:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T15:52:43","slug":"big-east-blowout-depaul-at-marquette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/big-east-blowout-depaul-at-marquette-12569\/","title":{"rendered":"Big East Blowout? – DePaul at Marquette"},"content":{"rendered":"

DePaul Blue Demons vs Marquette Golden Eagles
\nJanuary 18th, 2011 9 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Marquette -20.5
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Marquette -19
\nOpening Total: 149
\nCurrent Total: 149
\nMoneyline:\u00a0 Marquette -3900 \/ DePaul +1550<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Marquette is heavily favored tonight against DePaul<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tonight’s game brings together the 12-6 Marquette Golden Eagles against the 6-11 DePaul Blue Demons.\u00a0 DePaul is currently 15th (last) in the Big East, as they have dropped all five of their conference games.\u00a0 Marquette is 7th in the Big East with a 3-2 record against conference opponents.<\/p>\n

Tonight’s game will be a welcome respite for the Golden Eagles.\u00a0 They have played their last 3 games against ranked opponents, dropping two of them (to #5 Pittsburgh and #17 Louisville) and winning one (against #11 Notre Dame).\u00a0 The Golden Eagles actually blew out Notre Dame, winning by 22 points.\u00a0 6’3″ senior guard Dwight Buyucks had his best game of the season that night, scoring 21 points on 7 of 9 shooting from the field (5 of 5 from three point range).<\/p>\n

DePaul, despite having a 6-11 record, has been in most of their games and their -2.8 point differential attests to that.\u00a0 Marquette, conversely, has blown out most of their opponents and suffered only close losses in their lost games.\u00a0 They are 17th in the nation in scoring with 80.1 points per game and only give up 67.9, good for a 12.2 point differential.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

DePaul is 0-5 SU in their last 5 road games and 3-6 ATS in their last 9 games against Marquette.\u00a0 they are also 0-5 SU in their last 5 road games against the Golden Eagles.<\/p>\n

Marquette is 8-4 SU in their last 12 games and 6-1 SU in their last 7 home games.\u00a0 They are 1-5 ATS in their last 6 games against DePaul and 4-1 SU in their last 5 against DePaul.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 4 of their last 6 games against DePaul and the are 5-0 SU in their last 5 home games against DePaul.<\/p>\n

DePaul is led by the trio of Cleveland Melvin, Brandon Young, and Tony Freeland, who together combine for 52% of DePaul’s scoring output.\u00a0 Melvin, a 6’8″ Freshman forward, averages 14.2 points per game in only 23.1 minutes a game.\u00a0 He shoots 53.7% from the floor and has scored in doubel figures in the last 10 DePaul games, including five games over 20 points, as his playing time has increased dramatically over that time span.\u00a0 He scored 29 in the 86-75 loss to Georgetown on January 1st, shooting 13 of 19 from the floor and playing nearly the whole game (36 minutes).\u00a0 Jimmy Butler of Marquette will have the task of guarding Melvin.\u00a0 Butler matches up favorable, as he is only 1″ shorter and also hits the boards hard (6.5 rebounds per game).\u00a0 He’ll also challenge Melvin on offense as he is the Golden Eagles’ second leading scorer at 15.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

Marquette is led by Darius Johnson-Odom, a 6’2″ junior point guard.\u00a0 Odom scores 15.7 points per game but managese only 2.7 assists per night.\u00a0 He shoots 35.9% from three and has scored in double figures in all but two of Marquette’s games.\u00a0 He has also had four games with 20+ points and had his season tying high of 29 in an 8 point road win against Rutgers.\u00a0 The aforementioned Crowder is quietly having himself an excellent year, as well, but struggled last game against Louisville, going 4 of 11 from the floor for only 8 points.<\/p>\n

Tonight’s game is not predicted to be close by vegas oddsmakers, but I do think DePaul can at least cover the spread, particuarly if Melvin is able to get off to a good start and have another big game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DePaul Blue Demons vs Marquette Golden Eagles January 18th, 2011 9 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Marquette -20.5 Current Line:\u00a0 Marquette -19 Opening Total: 149 Current Total: 149 Moneyline:\u00a0 Marquette -3900 \/ DePaul +1550 Tonight’s game brings together the 12-6 Marquette Golden Eagles against the 6-11 DePaul Blue Demons.\u00a0 DePaul is currently 15th (last) in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":3961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4366,3943],"class_list":["post-12569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-depaul-blue-demons","tag-marquette-golden-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12571,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12569\/revisions\/12571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}