Marquette at St. John’s Odds, NCAA Basketball Betting Insights and Prediction in the Week 14

First place in the Big East is on the NCAA Basketball betting when No. 11 Marquette visits No. 12 St. John’s in the first of two scheduled meetings and a rare Top 15 matchup for the Johnnies.

The Red Storm are short favorites on the NCAAB odds for their biggest home game in years.

Marquette vs St. John’s NCAA Basketball Betting & TV Info

NCAAB Moneylines: St. John’s -169 / Marquette +138
When: Tuesday, 6:30 PM ET
Where: Madison Square Garden
TV: FOX Sports 1
Stream: FOX Sports Live

Marquette NCAA Basketball Betting Insights

Last Game Review

No. 11 Marquette (18-4, 9-2 Big East) had a three-game winning streak snapped Saturday in a 77-69 home loss to two-time defending national champion UConn. The Huskies led by as many as 22 in the first half and answered every Marquette comeback attempt the rest of the way despite playing without excellent freshman Liam McNeeley, whose 13.6 points per game make him the Huskies’ third-leading scorer.

UConn committed a season-high 25 turnovers but shot a season-best 59.5% (25 of 42) overall and 63.2 (12 of 19) from 3-point range. The Golden Eagles dug themselves too deep a hole with their poor shooting early on. Marquette shot 8 of 25 from the floor and 10 of 20 on free-throw attempts in the first half. The Golden Eagles also missed their first seven 3-point attempts.

Shaka Smart

“Hats off to UConn,” Marquette head coach Smart said after the defeat. “They played with great urgency, great precision… There’s a lot of stuff underneath on both ends of the floor where we need to be better. We want to get off to a great start every game. Even in our nine wins in Big East play, I think we’ve been down at halftime in five or six of them. It’s not the recipe for being the best you can be.”

Top Players

Marquette finished with a 29-9 advantage in points off turnovers and concluded the game with 21 more shot attempts, but in the end the Huskies’ efficiency and timely baskets were too much to overcome. The Golden Eagles were led by Kam Jones’ 22 points and three assists, while Chase Ross had 19 points.

Chase Ross

Ross has scored double figures in three-straight games for the first time since the first three games of the season. He’s averaging 16.3 points on 51.6% shooting overall in the past three. Jones has been named one of 10 candidates for the 2025 Bob Cousy Award, which goes to the nation’s top point guard.

But on Monday, MU fell out of the top 10 of the college basketball polls for the first time since November. MU had been a top-10 team for the previous 10 weeks. Marquette’s start to league play is its best since 2008-09, when the Golden Eagles also opened Big East action 9-2, despite trailing at halftime in six of the outings in 2024-25. MU has claimed its first five conference road games for the first time in program history (1989-90 was first season in a league).

Stevie Mitchell

MU tops the Big East and fourth in the nation in steals per game (10.2) and St. John’s is second in the league and 18th in the country (9.5). Big East Defensive Player of the Year candidate Mitchell leads the league and is sixth nationally at 2.7 steals per game. MU also tops the league and is first in the country in turnover margin (+7.5) and is fourth in the country in points off turnovers per outing (20.1).

St. John’s Basketball Betting Insights

Last Game Review

St. John’s (19-3, 10-1 Big East) won its eighth straight game on Saturday, 68-66 over Providence. Jabri Abdur-Rahim had a season-high 27 points off the bench to help Providence stage a huge rally. He made two of his eight 3-pointers during the furious comeback before Bensley Joseph hit a tying 3 with 33 seconds left — his only basket of the game to go with 12 rebounds and seven assists.

Following a timeout, the Red Storm’s Richmond used a screen by Zuby Ejiofor to get separation from Jayden Pierre and drain a pull-up jumper from the foul line with three seconds left for the one. Joseph missed a heave from just inside halfcourt at the buzzer.

Kadary Richmond

Richmond exploded for a season-high 24 points on 10-of-14 shooting (71.4%) from the floor, matching his highest point total since he set his career-best with 28 against Providence on Dec. 17, 2022. The graduate student was all over the floor nearly tallying a triple-double adding eight rebounds, a season-high eight assists along with three steals.

“I think he’s really rusty. He had two practices where he didn’t shoot it well, but it’s to be expected,” Pitino said after the win. “He’s a pro. He’ll come back, he listens, he’ll do the right things.”

RJ Luis Jr.

Luis Jr. has reached double-figures in 25 of his last 27 games for the Red Storm after finishing with 19 points. The junior also pulled down eight boards and has averaged 7.5 boards per contest over his last four games. Zuby Ejiofor reached double-digits in scoring for the 14th consecutive game totaling 13 points on Saturday afternoon. Deivon Smith returned to action after missing three of the last four games due to injury and added six assists and a game-high three steals. The senior point guard missed 9 of his 10 shots in 28 minutes off the bench.

Rick Pitino

Despite the win, Coach Pitino wasn’t thrilled considering his team held a 19-point lead with 8:32 left and coughed it up. Their usually stellar defense allowed the Friars to hit six 3-point shots over the final 6:28, and they were 12-for-28 from distance for the game.

“They think I’m going to jump up and down, say, ‘What a great win.’ It’s just the opposite,” he said. “You lose games when you don’t pay attention to your job, and they didn’t pay attention to their jobs. We’re very fortunate and very pleased we won, but very disappointed with the way we played down the stretch — not offensively, but defensively.”

The Streak

The Red Storm have now won eight-straight regular season league games for the first time since it won eight consecutive from Feb. 1 from March 2, 1992. The Johnnies moved to 14-0 at home with Saturday’s triumph, marking the fifth-longest active home winning streak in the country. The Johnnies have also captured seven consecutive matchups inside Madison Square Garden, the team’s longest there since it won nine-straight from 2000-01.

Conference Leader

St. John’s is solo atop the Big East but hasn’t won even a share of the regular-season conference crown since 1992. That was the final season on the sidelines for iconic coach Lou Carnesecca, who died Nov. 30 just a few weeks shy of his 100th birthday. The drought is the longest in Big East history. Butler and DePaul are the only current members without a regular-season championship, but both joined the conference this century. So you know now, if The Red Storm worth the chance in the NCAA Basketball betting.

AP Top 25

The Johnnies reached their highest Associated Press poll ranking since 2000 on Monday, checking in at No. 12. The Red Storm cracked the top-10 in the USA Today Coaches’ poll coming in at No. 10, for the first time since 1999. Tuesday will mark the first top-15 matchup in any contest for St. John’s since the 1999 Elite Eight, when the Red Storm fell to Ohio State, 77-74, in the regional final on March 20.

Marquette vs St. John’s Last Season

Marquette was 2-0 vs. St. John’s last season, including a 73-72 road victory led by 17 points from Oso Ighodaro and 15 points and 11 assists from Tyler Kolek, who is now in the NBA. Kolek, a 94% free-throw shooter (46 for 49) entering the game, missed three in the final 2:05 and Marquette went the last 2:50 without scoring to open the door after leading by double digits. Daniss Jenkins, however, missed a foul shot that would have tied it for St. John’s with 38.9 seconds remaining, and Chris Ledlum was off target on an open 3-pointer with 10 seconds to go. Marquette leads all-time 29-16 and has won the past six.

POLL ALERT: Auburn, Duke remain 1-2 atop AP Top 25, SEC has 9 teams in poll; Maryland makes 1st poll appearance since February 2023.

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