The Sooner Schooner is 1) a covered wagon pulled by horses and 2) an actual official mascot of Oklahoma. Fun, huh?Andrew FleckFri, November 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM UTC·2 min readTHE VITALS: Marquette Golden Eagles (3-3) vs Oklahoma Sooners (4-2)
THE DATE: Friday, November 28, 2025
THE TIME: 1pm Central
THE LOCATION: Credit Union 1 Arena, Chicago, Illinois aka “The home arena for the Illinois-Chicago Flames out of the Missouri Valley Conference.”
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementTHE TELEVISION: NBC, with (sigh) John Fanta, Nick Bahe, and Cayleigh Griffin on the call.
THE STREAMING: Peacock
THE RADIO: 94.5 FM/ESPN Milwaukee, available online via The Varsity Network.
THE LIVE STATS: Apparently not!
THE LINE: Nothing yet from our friends at FanDuel.
THE PROJECTION: KenPom.com gives Marquette a 51% chance of victory, most likely because this game is listed as “semi-home,” with a predicted score of 81-80.
THE EXCITEMENT LEVEL: KenPom.com gives this game a Thrill Score of 66.0, making it the fourth most potentially exciting game out of the 38 Division 1 contests scheduled for the day. #1? Illinois vs UConn at 85.6.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementMARQUETTE PROBABLE LINEUP
Nigel James (10.0 ppg, 2.0 rpg, 3.4 apg, 1.7 spg)
Chase Ross (20.9 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 4.3 apg, 2.0 spg)
Zaide Lowery (10.6 ppg, 3.7 rpg, 2.3 apg, 1.4 spg)
Ben Gold (9.7 ppg, 8.0 rpg, 1..0 apg, 1.0 spg)
Caedin Hamilton (6.3 rpg, 4.0 rpg)
MARQUETTE INJURY NOTE: Redshirt junior guard Sean Jones suffered some sort of shoulder injury in practice on November 11th and has not played since. He had his arm in a sling that keeps things immobilized, and after the Little Rock game, head coach Shaka Smart said that the medical staff was still evaluating the best path forward for Jones… but he would probably be out “for a little while.” Jones was no longer wearing the sling last Saturday against Central Michigan.
OKLAHOMA PROBABLE LINEUP
Nijel Pack (18.5 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 3.0 apg, 1.0 spg)
Xzayvier Brown (16.0 ppg, 2.7 rpg, 3.2 apg, 1.8 spg)
Derrion Reid (10.7 ppg, 4.3 rpg, 2.0 apg)
Tae Davis (12.0 ppg, 7.5 rpg, 2.2 apg, 1.2 spg)
Mohamed Wague (8.7 ppg, 6.8 rpg, 1.0 apg, 1.3 bpg)
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