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The Marquette Golden Eagles host the Xavier Musketeers in a Big East game that will take place at the BMO Harris Bradley Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at 8 PM ET. The Marquette Golden Eagles hit the board at -3.5 over the visiting Xavier Musketeers tonight. The O/U line for this game opened at 154.5 and has fallen to 153.5 with sume sharp action coming in on the UNDER.
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Xavier is coming off a 75-63 loss to Providence in their last game where they failed to cover the spread as a 5-point underdog. The total number of points scored in the game was 138, which was over the closing line of 137.5. The Musketeers have failed to cover the spread in six of their last seven games, including their last three, and previous to the Providence game the total had gone under in two straight games. Xavier has lost their last two games with the first loss coming against a ranked Villanova team.
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Marquette is coming off an 80-62 loss to Georgetown in their last game where they failed to cover the spread as a 3-point underdog. The total number of points scored in the game was 142, which was under the closing line of 156. The Golden Eagles have failed to cover the spread in four of their last five games, including their last two, and the total has gone under in three of their last four games, including their last two games. Overall, Marquette has lost two in a row and four of their last five games.
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Offensively, Xavier is putting up 75.4 points per game on a 45% FG average. On the defensive side of things the Musketeers are allowing 70.3 points per game on a 44.5% FG average.
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Marquette is putting up 82 points per game, which ranks 20th in the nation, on a 48.5% FG average, which ranks 15th in the nation. On defense the Golden Eagles are allowing 74.8 points per game on a 45.7% FG average.
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Last season Xavier beat Marquette three times including beating them in the conference tournament.
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Xavier Musketeers at Marquette Golden Eagles Betting Trends<br />
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Xavier is 1-6 against the spread in their last 7 games overall.
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The Musketeers are 2-4 straight up in their last 6 road games.
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The game total has gone under in 4 of Xavier’s last 6 games against Marquette.
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Marquette is 1-4 against the spread in their last 5 games overall.
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The Golden Eagles are 2-4 against the spread in their last 6 games against Xavier.
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Public Money Consensus<br />
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In this NCAAB matchup between Xavier and Marquette have the public leaning just slightly to the home Golden Eagles minus the 3.5 points with 53%. The over/under bettors are pretty even on this game total but a higher portion believe it will stay under the posted total line 154.5 with 58% on board.
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