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- | Marquette coasted to a win in its conference opener, but the Golden Eagles will have to win on the road if they hope to earn their first-ever 2-0 Big East start. | ||
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- | The 10th-ranked Golden Eagles try for their eighth straight win Sunday when they visit a West Virginia team reeling from back-to-back losses in Bob Huggins' | ||
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- | Marquette (11-1, 1-0) beat Providence 96-67 on Thursday, winning its Big East opener for the second time in its third season in the league. Last season, the Golden Eagles lost their first two conference games before rebounding to win eight straight. | ||
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- | In order to earn its first 2-0 Big East record, the Golden Eagles will have to win their first road game since an 81-76 victory at Wisconsin on Dec. 8. Marquette' | ||
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- | Marquette went 4-4 in road conference games last season and 3-5 in 2005-06. The Mountaineers (10-3), meanwhile, have gone 7-1 at home in Big East games in each of the last two seasons. | ||
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- | However, West Virginia lost its conference opener 69-56 on Thursday at Notre Dame. That defeat came five days after a 88-82 double-overtime defeat to Oklahoma. | ||
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- | "I hope it's a wake-up call. I hope you can call it that," said West Virginia forward Alex Ruoff, who leads the team with 16.2 points per game, after the loss to the Fighting Irish. " | ||
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- | Ruoff had 18 points for West Virginia (10-3, 0-1), which shot a season-low 32 percent and scored 14 points fewer than its previous lowest total. | ||
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- | Huggins, a Morgantown native and 1977 West Virginia graduate who coached at Cincinnati from 1989-2005, is in his first season at his alma mater after guiding Kansas State to an NIT berth in 2006-07 in his only season there. Both Cincinnati and Marquette were members of Conference USA from 1995-2005, and Huggins is 20-11 all-time against Marquette. | ||
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- | Huggins and the Mountaineers will be trying to slow down Marquette' | ||
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- | Jerel McNeal, who is averaging 13.4 points, had four points and nine assists despite battling the flu, and Wesley Matthews chipped in a season-high 16 points. | ||
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- | Center Ousmane Barro had his best offensive game of the season with 14 points and nine rebounds. Marquette' | ||
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- | The teams have split two Big East meetings, with Marquette winning 81-63 last season at home as James scored 21 points. | ||
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