The No. 5 seed Marquette Golden Eagles will tip off against No. 12 seed Murray State on Thursday, March 21 at 4:30 pm. ET in the first round of the 2019 NCAA tournament. Bigger than the matchup itself is the meeting of two of this season's most prolific scorers: point guards Markus Howard and Ja Morant.
Morant, a 2018-19 SI First-Team All-American, and Howard, an SI Second-Team All-American, will go head-to-head in the first round of the Big Dance. With 16 30+ point games and four 40+ point games between the two, it is certainly worth getting to know these two key players before they clash.