Marquette Golden Eagles vs. KU Jayhawks in Maui Invitational: Starters, tipoff time, TV
THE DETAILS
When/where: 9:30 p.m. Central Time on Tuesday, SimpliFi Arena at Stan Sheriff Center, Honolulu, Hawaii.
TV: ESPN.
Radio: WHB (810) in Kansas City; ESPN Wichita (92.3 FM) in Wichita.
PROBABLE STARTERS
P | No. | Marquette | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F | 13 | Oso Ighodaro | 6-11 | Sr. | 13.3 |
F | 23 | David Joplin | 6-8 | Jr. | 10.5 |
G | 11 | Tyler Kolek | 6-3 | Sr. | 13.3 |
G | 4 | Stevie Mitchell | 6-3 | Jr. | 4.3 |
G | 1 | Kam Jones | 6-5 | Jr. | 17.5 |
P | No. | Kansas | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F | 24 | KJ Adams | 6-7 | Jr. | 12.5 |
C | 1 | Hunter Dickinson | 7-2 | Sr. | 24.3 |
G | 15 | Kevin McCullar | 6-7 | Sr. | 17.8 |
G | 3 | Dajuan Harris | 6-2 | Sr. | 8.0 |
G | 13 | Elmarko Jackson | 6-3 | Fr. | 7.8 |
About No. 4 Marquette (4-0): The Golden Eagles of the Big East Conference remained undefeated by beating UCLA, 71-69, in a first-round Maui Invitational game on Monday. Junior forward David Joplin was 5-of-11 from 3 and scored 19 points. Senior forward Oso Ighodaro had 14 points. Senior guard Tyler Kolek had nine assists, nine points and five boards. …Marquette also has defeated Illinois, 71-64, in Champaign, Ill., and has won home games versus Rider, 95-65, and Northern Illinois, 92-70. … Former Texas Longhorns coach Shaka Smart is 52-20 in three seasons as Marquette coach. … Marquette is making its fourth appearance (2007, 2021, 2017, 2023) in the Maui Invitational. The Golden Eagles are 7-3 overall in the event. Marquette advanced to the championship game in 2017, falling, 77-73, to No. 13 Duke in the title matchup. … Marquette’s No. 4 ranking in the latest Associated Press poll is the program’s highest ranking since the 1977-78 season. … Point guard Kolek, who sprained his ankle late in the Nov. 10 win over Rider, scored a game-high 24 points on 10-of-18 shooting with six rebounds, four assists and a pair of steals in 37 minutes against Illinois. His point total matched his best since a 24-point effort at DePaul on Jan. 28, 2023. … Marquette was tabbed first in the 2023-24 Big East preseason coaches poll. The Golden Eagles garnered seven first-place votes and earned 96 points. Creighton was second. … Kolek, the reigning Big East player of the year was named the league’s 2023-24 preseason player of the year. Ighodaro and guard Kam Jones were both named preseason all-Big East second team.
About No. 1 Kansas (4-0): The Jayhawks, who have won four consecutive games against Marquette, lead the all-time series against the Golden Eagles 7-1. In the last meeting, KU prevailed, 77-68, in the semifinals of the 2018 NIT Season Tipoff in Brooklyn, New York. Dedric Lawson scored 26 points for KU. Sam Hauser scored 20 points and Marcus Howard 18 for Marquette. … The Jayhawks beat Marquette, 94-61, in a Final Four semifinal on April 5, 2003 in New Orleans. KU downed Marquette, 85-61, on Jan. 28, 1992 in Milwaukee and won in Allen Fieldhouse, 108-71, on Dec. 1, 1990. In that Final Four game, Keith Langford scored 23 points, Aaron Miles 18, Kirk Hinrich 18 and Nick Collison 12. … Marquette’s only win in the series was a 64-51 decision on March 23, 1974 in a Final Four semifinal in Greensboro, North Carolina. Maurice Lucas had 18 points and 14 boards for Marquette. Rick Suttle had 19 points and Roger Morningstar 10 for KU. … KU is 19-6 all-time in the Maui Invitational. … KU is 4-0 for the 10th time in head coach Bill Self’s 21 seasons at KU. … The Jayhawks have won seven in a row in the Maui event. … Self is 569-132 all-time at Kansas. … KU has 110 assists, most by a KU team in its first four contests since 1996-97 and most in the Self era. …Kevin McCullar is the first Jayhawk to record a triple-double in consecutive games. It is the seventh time in NCAA history a player has recorded consecutive triple-doubles, with the last being Tony Lee of Robert Morris on Feb. 9, 2008 and Feb. 14, 2008. … Senior center Hunter Dickinson has scored in double figures in the first half of all four KU games. … Redshirt-senior Dajuan Harris (eight assists vs. Chaminade) is tied for 13th on Kansas’ all-time career assists list with Ryan Robertson (1996-99 at KU) at 485.
