Big East Tournament Quarterfinals Game Thread: #1 Marquette vs #8 St. John’s

THE VITALS: #1 Marquette Golden Eagles (25-6, 17-3 Big East) vs #8 St. John’s Red Storm (18-14, 7-13 Big East)

THE DATE: Thursday, March 9, 2023

THE TIME: 11am Central

THE LOCATION: Madison Square Garden, New York, New York

THE TELEVISION: FS1, with Tim Brando, Jim Jackson, and Kristina Pink on the call

THE STREAMING: FoxSports.com/live or the Fox Sports app

THE RADIO: 94.5 ESPN Milwaukee, available online at Wisconsin On Demand

THE LIVE STATS: Stat Broadcast

THE LINE: Marquette -7 from our friends at Draft Kings.

THE PROJECTION: KenPom.com gives Marquette a 79% chance of victory in this game, with a predicted score of 85-79. For what it’s worth, KenPom is calculating this as a neutral site game, not a road game in the alternate home arena for St. John’s.

THE EXCITEMENT LEVEL: KenPom.com gives this game a Thrill Score of 53.7, making it the 23rd most potentially exciting game out of the 57 Division 1 games scheduled for the day when I checked at 5am Thursday.

MARQUETTE PROBABLE LINEUP

• Tyler Kolek (12.7 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 7.9 apg, 1.8 spg)
• Stevie Mitchell (7.2 ppg, 2.7 rpg, 1.1 ap, 1.7 spg)
• Kam Jones (15.3 ppg, 3.4 rpg, 1.9 apg, 1.4 spg)
• Olivier-Maxence Prosper (12.5 ppg, 4.8 rpg, 1.0 spg)
• Oso Ighodaro (11.9 ppg, 5.8 rpg, 3.3 apg, 1.0 spg, 1.5 bpg)

ST. JOHN’S PROBABLE LINEUP

• Posh Alexander (10.3 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 4.4 apg, 2.0 spg)
• Dylan Addae-Wusu (9.1 ppg, 4.2 rpg, 2.4 apg, 1.6 spg)
• AJ Storr (8.7 ppg, 1.8 rpg)
• O’Mar Stanley (4.7 ppg, 2.7 rpg)
• Joel Soriano (15.2 ppg, 11.8 rpg, 1.2 apg, 1.3 bpg)