The reasons are many and I will give you some of them but not all of them.
Maquette's power rating that I use and is very good should have them as a 4 point favorite.
They are a great travel team and a great underdog team. They have covered over 60% in the past 12 years and nothing is there to suggest they have changed character.
They are 4-0 when the spread is 3 or less this year. Marquette is at their best in these type games. They are not a good double digit favorite burt a good team to play when supposivly competitive against teams with roughly equal ability.
They have an excellent point spread record since
Christmas and seem to be getting stronger !!!
On the other hand Notre Dame has only covered 2 spreads since early Dec. One was against lowly Depaul , who is one of the ten worse point spread teams in college this year! The other was Georgetown who is mired in a severe slump and N D caught part of that. ND has UNDERACHEIVED all year and is rated 5-7 points better then they are from stats I use. They have lost their last 3 games by about 9 points a game and has been giving up a lot of points doing so. In the last 3 games they have given up an average of 85 points a game . Good teams do not do that.
Win or lose I feel good about this game . I got +120 odds at Matchbook on them. Hard to believe I got these odds but I will take them.
Cheers
if I win
If I lose then
Maquette's power rating that I use and is very good should have them as a 4 point favorite.
They are a great travel team and a great underdog team. They have covered over 60% in the past 12 years and nothing is there to suggest they have changed character.
They are 4-0 when the spread is 3 or less this year. Marquette is at their best in these type games. They are not a good double digit favorite burt a good team to play when supposivly competitive against teams with roughly equal ability.
They have an excellent point spread record since
Christmas and seem to be getting stronger !!!
On the other hand Notre Dame has only covered 2 spreads since early Dec. One was against lowly Depaul , who is one of the ten worse point spread teams in college this year! The other was Georgetown who is mired in a severe slump and N D caught part of that. ND has UNDERACHEIVED all year and is rated 5-7 points better then they are from stats I use. They have lost their last 3 games by about 9 points a game and has been giving up a lot of points doing so. In the last 3 games they have given up an average of 85 points a game . Good teams do not do that.
Win or lose I feel good about this game . I got +120 odds at Matchbook on them. Hard to believe I got these odds but I will take them.
Cheers
if I winIf I lose then
