Regular-season college basketball games in Milwaukee don't get much bigger than the one that will take place at 1 p.m. Saturday at the BMO Harris Bradley Center.
That's when Marquette (18-10, 7-8 Big East) will welcome top-ranked Villanova (24-4, 13-2), hosting the Associated Press No. 1 team for just the third time in program history and the second at the Bradley Center.
It's also National Marquette Day, which is certain to bring a sellout crowd to the 11th-largest venue in Division I, and there will be a global crowd watching on Fox.
If that wasn't enough, the Golden Eagles enter the game in a four-way tie for fifth place in the Big East and need every win they can get to put themselves back into the conversation for inclusion in the NCAA Tournament.