(MARQUETTE COMMUNICATIONS) – The Marquette University men’s basketball team (7-13, 2-7 BIG EAST) heads to Butler (12-7, 3-5) on Friday, Jan. 23 for a 7 p.m. CT matchup at Hinkle Fieldhouse to continue BIG EAST action. FS1 features the national television broadcast, with Jeff Levering (play-by-play) and Dickey Simpkins (analyst) calling the action. Following Friday’s outing, the Golden Eagles will return home to host Creighton on Tuesday, Jan. 27 to conclude the home-and-home series.
Series With Butler Spans Program History
The all-time series dates back to the 1922-23 campaign and the Golden Eagles now own a 28-25 advantage.
MU claimed the first-ever meeting, 18-17, on Dec. 16, 1922, only to see the Bulldogs claim the next nine matchups. Marquette also collected a nine-game win streak between 1942 and 1990, with the last two contests during that run coming when both programs were members of the Midwestern Collegiate Conference.
Following Marquette’s move to the Great Midwest Conference in 1991-92, the two teams wouldn’t meet until Butler beat the Golden Eagles at the buzzer in the opening game of the 2012 Maui Invitational. MU would return the favor in the 2013 NCAA tournament, downing the Bulldogs, 74-72, in the closing seconds to earn a trip to the squad’s third-straight Sweet 16.
The Golden Eagles swept the home-and-home series in 2024-25 and have claimed nine of the last 11 matchups overall dating back to 2019-20.
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