#MUBB Opens 2020-21 Wednesday Night Against UAPB at 9 p.m. CT

The Marquette University men's basketball team (0-0, 0-0 BIG EAST) opens the 2020-21 campaign Wednesday, Nov. 25 when the program hosts Arkansas-Pine Bluff (0-0, 0-0 SWAC) at 9 p.m. CT in Fiserv Forum. FS1 will feature the national television broadcast, with Jeff Levering (play-by-play) and Dickey Simpkins (analyst) calling the action. The season lidlifter is the final of six games scheduled for FS1 across the BIG EAST to tip-off the season. MU returns to action Nov. 27 when it hosts Eastern Illinois at 6 p.m. CT on FS2.

MU Hoping To Continue Opening Success

Marquette has enjoyed a tremendous amount of success on opening night and hopes to continue that trend in 2020-21 when the team faces UAPB in the first game of the year.

The Golden Eagles are 87-16 (.844) all-time in campaign lidlifters and have claimed 27 of their last 29 overall. Marquette had an impressive streak of 29 years in which it started 1-0, dating from 1960-61 to 1988-89.

The Golden Eagles are 1-0 all-time against UAPB, having posted a 100-49 win over the Golden Lions on Dec 19, 2001. That victory capped a run of 10-straight wins by Marquette to begin the 2001-02 season. Oluoma Nnamaka scored 17 points and five other players reached double figures and the team went on an astonishing 30-point run over a span of 7 minutes, 25 seconds for an insurmountable 35-6 lead with 8:43 left in the first half.

Schedule Provides Challenges Early & Often

Marquette has confirmed its opening 10 games of the 2020-21 campaign and four of them will come against programs ranked in the preseason top-25 polls.

The Golden Eagles open the season with a five-game homestand, highlighted by a visit from rival No. 7/7 Wisconsin on Dec. 4. MU's lone road game of the non-league schedule is at No. 22/21 UCLA on Dec. 11 and the team will conclude a tough two-game road swing at No. 11/11 Creighton on Dec. 14 in the BIG EAST Conference opener.

After hosting Seton Hall and traveling to Xavier, the squad returns home to host No. 3/3 Villanova on Dec. 23, all before Christmas.

The remainder of the BIG EAST schedule is expected to be announced in the coming weeks and the league tourney is still scheduled for early March at Madison Square Garden.

Marquette University Athletics

#MUBB Opens 2020-21 Wednesday Night Against UAPB at 9 p.m. CT

Related News

Next Event

Related Videos