[Cracked Sidewalks] Marquette hosts Texas Southern

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Marquette hosts Texas Southern

Written by: noreply@blogger.com (Tim Blair (aka NY Warrior))

The 15th ranked Marquette Golden Eagles host the Texas Southern Tigers tonight at the Bradley Center in the second of four tilts in the 2008 Chicago Invitational.  Tipoff is scheduled for 7pm.

The Golden Eagles (3-0), who lead the Big East in scoring, figure to run away from the Tigers who enter the game at 0-3.  The Tigers fell to Northern Iowa 74-67 last week in Cedar Falls, and lost to Cincinnati by 31 last week.

Once again Marquette will look to surging senior Wesley Matthews to lead the way.  Matthews is averaging 26 points, seven rebounds and four assists through the season's first three games.  Junior Lazar Hayward is averaging a double-double at 22 and 10.  Meanwhile, Jerel McNeal is kicking in just shy of 20 points per game on 47% shooting, an impressive figure considering he's only making  23% of his three-point attempts (4-17).

Marquette defeated Chicago State in the first 'round' of the Chicago invitational, and will travel to the Sears Center in Hoffman Estates, Illinois this weekend for a final pair of games.    MU will face Northern Iowa on Friday and will suit up against the Dayton Flyers on Saturday evening to conclude the tournament.

Media Updates

• Rosiak filed this report on tonight's game.
• Rosiak blogged a supplementary bit of info here.
• Official Marquette game preview/notes.

http://marquettebasketball.blogspot.com/2008/11/marquette-hosts-texas-southern.html

[rocky_warrior]

I know only 3 games, but noticed on the ESPN ticker last night that Wes was 3rd in the NCAA in scoring:

http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/stats/leaders/NCAAB/PTSAVG/regularseason/yearly

[dsfire]

Marquette is also #3 as a team for ppg: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/statistics

edit: the players show up on some of the more detailed lists as well (i.e. James is tied for #22 in average steals per game), and even Hazel makes a few of the detailed lists for the Big East.  4 blocks!

[77ncaachamps]

"Never before has an MU team scored 100 points or more in three consecutive games."

Just do it, MU.

[BrewCity83]

I can hear the chant from the student section starting early in the first half..."NINETY MORE POINTS, NINETY MORE POINTS".