Time: 11am Central
Location: Madison Square Garden, New York, New York
Season Series: Marquette won, 2-0
All-Time Series: Marquette leads 26-16
Current Streak: Marquette has won three straight and six out of the last eight meetings.
Marquette gets to this point of the season by winning their last six regular season games, 11 of their last 12, and 16 of their last 18. This made them Big East regular season champions, securing the outright title by two full games ahead of 15-5 Xavier in the league standings. As the #1 seed, Marquette got to skip ahead in the conference tournament, past Wednesday’s opening round and into the quarterfinals.