In a weird scheduling quirk, Creighton is done with five Big East teams for the regular season before seeing Marquette for the first time, and will face off with the Golden Eagles twice in the season’s final 14 days. Steve Wojciechowski’s team enters the game at 14-11 (and 5-8 in the Big East), and has seen their NCAA Tournament hopes all but evaporate in the mist of a stretch where they’ve lost five of their last six games.
Marquette has three of the better shooters in the conference in Markus Howard, Andrew Rowsey, and Sam Hauser. All three are capable of going off for 20+ (or, in the case of Howard, 50 — he hung 52 points on Providence in January).