Who would win in a fight, a Golden Eagle or a Catamount?
THE VITALS: #10 Marquette Golden Eagles (7-0) vs Western Carolina Catamounts (2-3)
THE DATE: Saturday, November 30, 2024
THE TIME: 1pm Central
THE LOCATION: Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
THE TELEVISION: FS2, with Lane Grindle and Wesley Freaking Matthews on the call
THE STREAMING: FoxSports.com/live or the Fox Sports app
THE RADIO: 94.5 ESPN Milwaukee, available online at Wisconsin On Demand or The Varsity Network.
THE LIVE STATS: Sidearm Stats
THE LINE: Marquette -33 from our friends at Draft Kings.
THE PROJECTION: KenPom.com gives Marquette a 99% chance of victory, with a predicted score of 87-60.
THE EXCITEMENT LEVEL: KenPom.com gives this game a Thrill Score of 10.0, making it the 60th most potentially exciting game out of the 62 Division 1 contests scheduled for the day. #1? Alabama vs Oregon in the Players Era Festival.
MARQUETTE PROBABLE LINEUP
- Stevie Mitchell (12.0 ppg, 3.1 rpg, 1.7 apg, 2.7 spg)
- Kam Jones (19.6 ppg, 4.4 rpg, 5.7 apg, 1.8 spg)
- Chase Ross (12.4 ppg, 4.9 rpg, 3.0 apg, 3.1 spg)
- David Joplin (16.9 ppg, 6.4 rpg, 1.3 spg)
- Ben Gold (8.4 ppg, 3.7 rpg, 1.1 apg, 1.0 bpg)
MARQUETTE INJURY UPDATE: Junior guard Sean Jones remains out while recovering from ACL surgery in January.
WESTERN CAROLINA PROBABLE LINEUP
- Chevalier Emery (14.2 ppg, 3.0 rpg, 2.2 apg, 1.4 spg)
- Cord Stansberry (10.4 ppg, 4.4 rpg, 1.4 apg)
- Brandon Morgan (6.4 ppg, 1.2 rpg, 1.8 apg)
- Bernard Pelote (8.4 ppg, 8.0 rpg, 1.6 apg)
- Vernon Collins (6.8 ppg, 4.4 rpg, 1.6 bpg)
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