DePaul at Detroit

DePaul is not expected to be a player in the Big East this season, and they come into this game apparently true to form with just a 3-7 mark. So why are they favored on the road? A closer look shows DePaul has played the toughest schedule in the country. They lost to Clemson (10-1), Mississippi (12-0), Vanderbilt (11-0), Kansas (12-0), Creighton (9-1) and Ill-Chicago (8-4). Those six losses were to teams that are 62-6! The fact is they lost to Ole Miss by 6, even though they shot 31%, and 18% from three-point land. They took Vandy to OT, even though the Commodores shot 52% from the field and 48% from three. They simply are a much better team than any stats from playing teams with a combined 62-6 record will reveal. Detroit also wasn't supposed to be good and when Cotton left the team, they are now in the horrible classification. They have dropped five straight, and by a margin of over 15 ppg. Amongst those five losses is a 15 point loss to Texas A&M Corpus Christi, a team DePaul beat by 15. DePaul has a positive assist to turnover ratio, even with the schedule they have had, while Detroit is negative against lesser competition. The talent differential is greater than the overall records would indicate here, and we ride DePaul on the road to pick up a comfortable win.