Marquette won its last six games with Rutgers. The Golden Eagles have outscored the Scarlet Knights by an average of 17.2 points during their run, including an 82-65 rout in the last meeting Feb. 22, 2012.

Covered their last five road games as favs this year. Rutgers lost four in row, 10 of last 11 games; they're 0-7 vs spread last seven home games, 1-4 as home dogs, losing home games by 10-12-20-6-4 points (3-5 SU).

Marquette (21-7, 12-4) climbed seven spots in Monday's AP poll after beating then-No. 12 Syracuse 74-71 last Monday and then-No. 21 Notre Dame 72-64 on Saturday.

Knights have dropped 11 of 12 against Top 25 teams, including six straight by an average of 10.0 points and continues to play without leading scorer Eli Carter (14.9 points per game), who broke his leg versus DePaul on Feb. 16