Marquette is listed as a 4.5 or 5 point dog on most books. That seems like a lot of points to me. I wonder if the spread moves towards Duke because their fan base tends to always bet on them. This phenomenon happens with Notre Dame football and a few other programs. For those who don't know gambling, when a book determines a point spread, their goal isn't to predict the outcome, it's to get half the gamblers placing $ on either team. Then regardless of the outcome, the book wins. If a number of gamblers put money on Duke "just because" it will tend to skew the spread in that direction, so objective gamblers will bet Marquette.
Either way, 5 is a lot of points.
Take MU to cover... especially if you can get five points. I don't see Duke being ahead by that much. IF by some chance they were to win, I think it will be at most by 3 points.
GOD I HOPE I'M RIGHT!! ;D
We better hit free throws better than last night.
the lines moved to 5.5
i see it getting to 6 or 6.5 by gametime
I just got MU at +7. I would be surprised if it goes higher. Let's go MU!
where are you finding +7 at?
How about the o/u I think it starte at 159 and is now down to 145.
My line has been at +5 for the past few hours.