Editor’s Note: For a little more than three years now, Joe has been publishing picks here and back at All Things NIT, our former site. Overall, the results have been positive, with an average return on investment, per pick, of 0.04% when weighting by confidence (1 for low, 2 for medium, 3 for high) across 2,028 published picks, not including bets that remain pending, like futures. So…profitable. But barely. But profitable!
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Butler @ Marquette
Marquette could use a nice, decisive win. They aren’t exactly struggling right now, but they’ve cooled off, and beating up on one of the Big East’s worst teams wouldn’t be an accomplishment so much as it’d be a bit of a mind-reliever as the postseason approaches. They should get it done today at home in an early game.
Pick: Marquette -8.5 (-110). Low confidence.
