ASA Big East *GAME OF THE YEAR* THE BIG ONE!
- Handicapper
- ASA, Inc.
- League
- NCAAB
- Competition
- DePaul vs Marquette
- Release Date
- 02/28/2026 07:44 PM
- Event Date
- 03/01/2026 04:00 PM
- Bet Type
- Point Spread
- Pick
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Marquette -3.5 (-110)
(Consensus Line)
- Outcome
- Loss
- Analysis
- #850 ASA PLAY ON Marquette -3.5 over DePaul, Sunday at 4 PM ET - The Golden Eagles are a dangerous team right now as they continue to improve after a poor start to the season. Their power rating on the season per Bart Torvik analytics is around 85th in the nation but during the month of February they are 50th and the 5th best in the Big East behind UConn, St Johns, Villanova, and Providence. They are coming off an impressive 16 point win @ Georgetown as a 2 point dog. That win was on Tuesday giving Marquette an extra day as DePaul was on the road Wednesday night @ Creighton. The Blue Demons came up with a huge come from behind win over the Blue Jays 72-71. It was a highly unlikely win as DePaul overcame an 11 point 2nd half deficit and never led by more than 2 points the entire game. They shot well above their season averages hitting 50% overall (they average 44% on the season) and 53% from deep (they average 33% for the season). Even shooting lights out, the Blue Demons led for only 5% of their game @ Creighton and pulled out a miracle win. It was just their 2nd Big East road win with 7 losses on the road in conference play. This will be their 3rd road game in their last 4 and 6th road game since January 28th (just 3 home games during that stretch). DePaul currently sits right around 100th in the nation per Torvik and while Marquette is surging, the Demons are not. Over the last month they rank 120th in the country and last in the Big East during that span along with Xavier. Marquette has won 4 of their last 6 home games with their only losses during that time coming by 6 points vs St John’s (#2 team in the BE) and by 3 points vs Villanova (#3 team in the Big East). Their last 2 home games were blowout wins over Creighton (by 24 points) and over Butler (by 15 points) who both rank well above this DePaul team that actually rates as the worst team in the Big East per KenPom and Torvik. In their first meeting @ DePaul, the Demons won by 5 in a game where Marquette made only 38% of their FT’s and led for more than 50% of the game. The Golden Eagles have dominated DePaul at home winning 8 of the last 9 and 30 of the last 35 here in Milwaukee. We like Marquette to cover this one rather easily.