The Golden Eagles need to find a way to snap a losing streak before they take a week off.
THE VITALS: #18 Marquette Golden Eagles (18-6, 9-4 Big East) vs DePaul Blue Demons (11-13, 2-11 Big East)
THE DATE: Tuesday, February 11, 2025
THE TIME: 7:30pm Central
THE LOCATION: Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
THE TELEVISION: None
WHAT? THE GAME’S NOT AVAILABLE TO WATCH? I didn’t say that. I said it’s not on television.
DO YOU MEAN……? Yep, been scheduled that way since October, don’t say I didn’t give you advance warning.
THE STREAMING: Peacock, with John Fanta and THA GAWD Tom Crean on the call.
THE RADIO: 94.5 ESPN Milwaukee, available online at Wisconsin On Demand or The Varsity Network.
THE LIVE STATS: Sidearm Stats
THE LINE: Marquette -18.5 from our friends at Draft Kings.
THE PROJECTION: KenPom.com gives Marquette a 94% chance of victory, with a predicted score of 81-64.
THE EXCITEMENT LEVEL: KenPom.com gives this game a Thrill Score of 25.0, making it the 35th most potentially exciting game out of the 37 Division 1 contests scheduled for the day. It beat out Air Force at UNLV and Western Michigan at Akron. #1? Tennessee at Kentucky.
MARQUETTE PROBABLE LINEUP
- Stevie Mitchell (11.4 ppg, 4.2 rpg, 1.6 apg, 2.7 spg)
- Kam Jones (19.2 ppg, 4.4 rpg, 6.0 apg, 1.5 spg)
- Chase Ross (11.1 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 2.0 apg, 2.0 spg)
- David Joplin (14.4 ppg, 5.2 rpg, 1.3 apg, 1.1 spg, 1.1 bpg)
- Ben Gold (7.1 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 1.0 apg)
DEPAUL PROBABLE LINEUP
- Layden Blocker (8.0 ppg, 2.9 rpg, 3.0 apg, 1.1 spg)
- Jacob Meyer (11.5 ppg, 3.3 rpg)
- Isaiah Rivera (9.4 ppg, 3.1 rpg, 1.3 apg)
- CJ Gunn (12.1 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 1.2 spg)
- N.J. Benson (8.7 ppg, 6.0 rpg, 1.4 bpg)
DEPAUL INJURY NOTES: Conor Enright was ruled out for the rest of the season for shoulder surgery before DePaul’s most recent game. Enright was averaging 7.5 points, 3.3 rebounds, and a team high 6.2 assists in 30 minutes a night. He had 11 points, three rebounds, and 11 assists in the first meeting against Marquette.
In addition to Enright, DePaul was without Troy D’Amico and David Skogman last week against Villanova, with both sitting out with foot injuries. It was the first game all year that D’Amico had missed, and he had started in 22 of his 23 appearances while averaging 5.6 points and 2.9 rebounds. It was the third straight missed game for Skogman after missing three games earlier this season as well. He maxed out at 20 minutes played in the six games in between the two stretches of missed time, and is averaging 6.6 points and 5.1 rebounds. Skogman didn’t do much against Marquette in the first game in nine minutes, but D’Amico had 10 rebounds, two assists, and a steal.
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