Hope you already got your Peacock subscription set up.
THE VITALS: #18 Marquette Golden Eagles (1-0) vs George Mason Patriots (1-0)
THE DATE: Friday, November 8, 2024
THE TIME: 8pm Central
THE LOCATION: Al McGuire Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
WAIT, IT’S NOT AT FISERV? Nope, Little Big Town and Sugarland are playing there tonight. Pretty decent seats still available when I looked last night.
BUT WHAT ABOUT MY SEASON TICKETS? Yeah, go look, you don’t have tickets for this game.
WHAT? It’s students only, which should be pretty neat as long as all the student ticket holders show up like they did two years ago against Central Michigan.
WELL, AT LEAST IT’S ON TELEVISION. Yeah, about that.
OH NO. Yeah, game’s not on broadcast or cable television.
THE STREAMING: Peacock, with Justin Kutcher & Nick Bahe on the call.
SO, THAT MEANS: Yes, you have to be paying for Peacock to watch this game, as well as MU’s three Big East games against Seton Hall, Georgetown, and DePaul later this season, and five Big East tournament games in March, too. If you’re a student, you can subscribe for just $2 a month for the next year.
THE RADIO: 94.5 ESPN Milwaukee, available online at Wisconsin On Demand or The Varsity Network.
THE LIVE STATS: Sidearm Stats
THE LINE: Marquette -12 from our friends at Draft Kings.
THE PROJECTION: KenPom.com gives Marquette an 86% chance of victory, with a predicted score of 79-67.
THE EXCITEMENT LEVEL: KenPom.com gives this game a Thrill Score of 38.2, making it the 12th most potentially exciting game out of the 63 Division 1 games scheduled for the day. #1? North Carolina at Kansas.
MARQUETTE PROBABLE LINEUP
(w/ stats from their opener)
- Stevie Mitchell (9 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 steals)
- Kam Jones (32 points, 1 rebound, 3 assists, 1 steal)
- Chase Ross (23 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal)
- David Joplin (13 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 steal, 1 block)
- Ben Gold (4 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists)
MARQUETTE INJURY UPDATE: Junior guard Sean Jones remains out while recovering from ACL surgery in January. Freshman forward Damarius Owens is likely out for the time being after suffering a foot injury in Marquette’s super duper ultra top secret scrimmage with Oklahoma.
GEORGE MASON PROBABLE LINEUP
(w/ stats from their opener)
- Jared Billups (8 points, 10 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals, 1 block)
- Brayden O’Connor (11 points, 5 rebounds, 2 steals)
- Darius Maddox (17 points, 5 rebounds)
- Woody Newton (5 points, 8 re ounds, 3 assists, 1 steal)
- Jalen Haynes (11 points, 6 rebounds, 1 steal)