On Wednesday night, YOUR #24 ranked Marquette Golden Eagles are hosting the #12 Villanova at Fiserv Forum. As luck (?) would have it, Fox Sports has scheduled the game to start at 9pm Central time on FS1 following the conclusion of the United States men’s national soccer team’s World Cup qualifying match against Honduras.
Let’s be honest: 9pm on a Wednesday night is not the most spectacular time to start a basketball game. That even goes for college students, who are, largely speaking, notoriously bad at going to sleep at a normal hour.
Thankfully, your Marquette athletic department marketing team is ON IT, and perhaps because of the 9pm start or perhaps just because it’s perennial Big East favorite Villanova in the building, they have declared Wednesday night to be Student Appreciation Night.