A trip to the Sweet Sixteen is on the line when these two Big East teams square off for second time this season. 11th seeded Marquette Golden Eagles (21-14) faces the 3rd seeded Syracuse Orange (27-7) on Sunday in the third round of the 2011 NCAA Championship at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, OH. The winner gets a trip to the Eastern Regional in Newark, New Jersey. To get here Marquette defeated 6th-seeded Xavier, 66-55, and Syracuse defeated No. 14 seed Indiana State, 77-60, in Friday’s action.
Marquette coach Buzz Williams grinded his way to tonight’s game
It’s NCAA deja vu as Big East foes Syracuse and Marquette prepare to meet
PROBABLE STARTERS – Marquette
F – #12 Erik Williams (6-7, 210,So.)
F – #33 Jimmy Butler (6-7 , 220, Sr.)
C – #42Chris Otule (6-11, 260, S0.)
G – #1 Darius Johnson-Odom(6-2, 215, Jr.)
G – #23 Dwight Buycks (6-3, 190, Sr.)
PROBABLE STARTERS – Syracuse
F- # 00 Rick Jackson(6-9,240,Sr.)
F- # 32 Kris Joseph (6-7 , 210, Jr.)
C- #12 Baye Moussa Keita(6-10, 213, Fr.)
G- #11 Scoop Jardine (6-2, 190, Jr.)
G- #20 Brandon Triche (6-4,198, S0.)
In a previous match up this year, the Golden Eagles defeated the Orange 76-70.
TEAM STATISTICS………………. MU……………. OPP
SCORING …………………………………2653………….. 2403
Points per game ………………………..75.8……………. 68.7
Scoring margin …………………………+7.1 –
FIELD GOALS-ATT …………………929-1980……. 882-2021
Field goal pct …………………………. 4 6 9…………… . 4 3 6
3 POINT FG-ATT……………………. 184-520 ………..250-696
3-point FG pct………………………… . 3 5 4…………… . 3 5 9
3-pt FG made per game ………………..5.3……………….. 7.1
FREE THROWS-ATT ………………….611-884……….. 389-590
Free throw pct ………………………….. 6 9 1…………… . 6 5 9
F-Throws made per game …………….17.5…………….. 11.1
REBOUNDS………………………………… 1257……………. 1169
Rebounds per game ………………………35.9……………. 33.4
Rebounding margin……………………… +2.5 –
ASSISTS ………………………………………551………………. 538
Assists per game …………………………..15.7……………… 15.4
TURNOVERS ………………………………..423………………. 493
Turnovers per game ………………………12.1……………… 14.1
Turnover margin ………………………….+2.0 –
Assist/turnover ratio……………………… 1.3……………….. 1.1
STEALS……………………………………….. 250……………….. 215
Steals per game ………………………………7.1………………… 6.1
BLOCKS …………………………………………125……………….. 119
Blocks per game ………………………………3.6……………….. 3.4
ATTENDANCE ……………………………..280545 …………..211541
Home games-Avg/Game ………………18-15586 ………..11-10551
Neutral site-Avg/Game – 6-15914
Score by Periods ……….1st……. 2nd…… OT Totals
Marquette ……………….1331…. 1307 …..15.. 2653
TEAM STATISTICS…………………… SYR………………. OPP
SCORING……………………………………… 2506…………….. 2150
Points per game ………………………………73.7…………….. 63.2
Scoring margin …………………………….+10.5 –
FIELD GOALS-ATT ………………………910-1936………. 767-1949
Field goal pct……………………………… . 4 7 0…………….. . 3 9 4
3 POINT FG-ATT …………………………217-613………….. 239-764
3-point FG pct ……………………………… 3 5 4……………… . 3 1 3
3-pt FG made per game ……………………6.4………………….. 7.0
FREE THROWS-ATT ……………………469-706…………….. 377-571
Free throw pct ……………………………… 6 6 4………………. . 6 6 0
F-Throws made per game …………………13.8………………… 11.1
REBOUNDS ……………………………………1284……………….. 1152
Rebounds per game…………………………. 37.8 ………………..33.9
Rebounding margin ………………………….+3.9 –
ASSISTS …………………………………………..555………………… 484
Assists per game ………………………………16.3 …………………14.2
TURNOVERS ……………………………………415…………………. 476
Turnovers per game …………………………12.2…………………. 14.0
Turnover margin …………………………….+1.8 –
Assist/turnover ratio ………………………..1.3……………………. 1.0
STEALS ………………………………………….297…………………… 213
Steals per game……………………………….. 8.7……………………. 6.3
BLOCKS …………………………………………229……………………… 99
Blocks per game ……………………………… 6.7……………………. 2.9
ATTENDANCE …………………………….423924……………….. 235590
Home games-Avg/Game ……………..19-22312……………… 9-16170
Neutral site-Avg/Game – 6-15009
Score by Periods …..1st….. 2nd…….. OT……… Totals
Syracuse …………….1145 ….1344…… 17……… 2506
Opponents ………….1006…. 1126…… 18………. 2150
Notes courtesy of gomarquette.com and suathletics.
Marquette’s defensive transition is OUTSTANDING! I wish I had kept track of how many uncontested Syracuse has been able to get. Not many I would guess.
Any moment now Scoop is going to do something stupid. Oh wait, he just did.
Buzz, what ever you do, don’t call Rick Barnes for an inbound play.
Why did Scoop rush that 3 point shot?? Plenty of time on the clock.. This is your point guard???
Where is Barkley because I am sure he is saying, “That is turrible..just turrible”.
Scoop is the best and the worst thing for the Orange and that play is a perfect example. You won’t see that play show up in the stat line other than a missed shot. Scoop has plenty of those occurrences. Then he masks them by saying: “the zone isn’t working.”
Speaking of Charles – the guy is HUH-larious. They were talking about the refs after the Texas game. He came to the zebras defense by saying something like: all refs work hard, except for Mike Matthews. Mike Matthews, he sucks. Ernie’s jaw hit the table.
I think Ernie;s jaw was going to hit the floor when Barkley went off on the Big East being overrated…. in front of Rick Pitino.
I should I thought Ernie’s jaw… I thought.. 🙂
Yeah well – how is looking now?
Considering that at most only 3 Big East teams will make it to next weekend? Looking overrated.