No. 10/10 #MUBB Travels To Seton Hall Tuesday Night

The No. 10/10 Marquette University men's basketball team (15-3, 6-1 BIG EAST) hits the road to face Seton Hall (6-12, 1-6 BIG EAST) on Tuesday, Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. at the Prudential Center. Peacock features the broadcast, with John Fanta (play-by-play) and Donny Marshall (analyst) calling the action. Following Tuesday's outing, the Golden Eagles will return home to host Villanova on Friday, Jan. 24 on the team's annual "Gold Out" night.

Series With Seton Hall Dates Back To 1956

The Golden Eagles lead the all-time series with Seton Hall, 24-14, with all but one of the matchups coming after MU joined the BIG EAST Conference in 2005-06.

SHU opened the series with a 96-78 victory over Marquette on March 17, 1956 in MU's first-ever appearance in the National Invitation Tournament in New York. The next meeting wouldn't come until 50 years later when Marquette moved to the BIG EAST.

The teams split the season series in 2023-24, with each program winning on its respective home court. In the most recent matchup, Marquette claimed a 75-57 victory on Jan. 27, 2024 at Fiserv Forum. Forward David Joplin scored 20 points and guard Stevie Mitchell added 13 points and the Golden Eagles finished the game shooting 51.7 percent from the floor.

Late Rally Falls Short In First Conference Loss

Marquette never led in Saturday's 59-57 setback against Xavier and trailed by as many as 19 points in the second half before closing the gap to just two points in the final seconds.

The Golden Eagles, unfortunately, had the ball knocked away on the final possession prior to a game-tying shot attempt and came up just short in the team's first BIG EAST defeat of 2024-25.

Marquette has claimed as many as six-straight victories in BIG EAST play in each of the last four seasons (including 2024-25) and are 37-10 (.804) in league action since the start of 2022-23, which is the best mark in the conference during that time span. Through games of Jan. 19, UConn is second (36-11) and Creighton third (33-14) in league action.

Continuity Is Key To Recent Success

Since the 2022-23 campaign, Marquette is the only power conference team that hasn't signed a NCAA Division I transfer, leading to as consistent a starting lineup as any program in the country.

Through games of Jan. 19, Marquette is one of just 11 squads (355 total) to feature the same starting lineup (K. Jones, Mitchell, Joplin, Ross, Gold). Two years ago, Marquette and Marshall were the only two teams in the country to utilize the same starting five the entire season.

Since the opening contest of the 2022-23 campaign (Kolek, Ighodaro, Prosper, Mitchell, Jones), just eight different players have started a game for MU, the lowest total in all of NCAA Division I.

Gold On The Glass Against Xavier

Junior forward Ben Gold finished with a career-best 13 rebounds in 32 minutes of action against Xavier, thanks in large part to a personal-high eight boards at the offensive end.

Gold's 13 caroms were the most by any player in the game and his eight at the offensive end of the court were more than any total amount grabbed by a Marquette teammate. His previous career-best total was eight rebounds against Southern on Nov. 28, 2023. Prior to Saturday, Gold had never had more than four offensive rebounds in a single game.