The Gentlemen come to townWritten by: noreply@blogger.com (Tim Blair)After a week away from competitive action the Marquette Warriors (7-3) host the Centenary Gentlemen (0-11) this afternoon at the Bradley Center. The disappointing home loss to Bucky has been lingering for a week and the over-matched Gents will provide little resistance this afternoon. Centenary stinks (http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/team/_/id/2113/centenary-gentlemen).
Heading into the eleventh game of the season it's time to start The DJO Watch in earnest. The junior guard, widely expected to emerge as one of the Big East's top guards, has regressed this season hitting on just 38% of his shots from the field and an abominable 27% from three-point range. If not for one scintillating performance against UWM (29 points on 10-14 shooting, 5-7 from deep) those figures would be far worse and perhaps more representative of just how much he's struggled so far this season.
As a sophomore the Raleigh native connected on 45% of his field goals and 47% of his three-point attempts. Johnson-Odom is coming off his worst game of the season, hitting just one of his nine attempts in the home loss to Wisconsin. While a strong performance against Centenary won't be enough to signal a turnaround, coach Buzz Williams needs the talented guard to raise his level of play quickly.
Tipoff is scheduled for 1pm Marquette Standard Time. The game will be broadcast on Sports32.
(http://www.gomarquette.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/121710aaa.html)
- Here are the Marquette Game Notes (http://www.gomarquette.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/121710aaa.html)
- Beat reporter Todd Rosiak completed a Q/A with readers yesterday -- must. read (http://www.jsonline.com/sports/goldeneagles/111641159.html).
- Vander Blue was the Big East Rookie of the Week last week (http://www.gomarquette.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/121310aaa.html).
- Marquette is adding lacrosse (http://www.gomarquette.com/sports/m-lacros/spec-rel/121610aac.html).
- The Big East/SEC Challenge will be revamped for next season (http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/112022244.html) --- and MU still gets that game with LSU.
If you have 30 minutes, enjoy the final episode of Marquette Basketball - Revealed.
http://www.youtube.com/v/PUkRlPkWquA?fs=1&hl=en_US
http://www.crackedsidewalks.com/2010/12/gentlemen-come-to-town.html
That last episode really gave some great insight into the preparation for each game