• AJ Staton-McCray scored 15 of his team-high 19 points in the second half, pacing the Pirates to a win at Butler.
• The first half was a defensive battle, with four lead changes and one tie, and neither team leading by more than six points.
• Butler led 24-23 at the break and scored the first six points of the second half.
• The two teams traded runs – and the lead – for much of the period. There were five lead changes over the final 20:00.
• A 3-pointer from Staton-McCray with 4:27 to go put Seton Hall ahead for good, igniting a 10-3 push to close the game and seal the victory.
• Mike Williams III came off the bench for the first time this season for Seton Hall, tallying 10 points, three rebounds, and three steals.
• Budd Clark finished with eight points and seven assists, while Tajuan Simpkins had eight points, seven boards, and five assists.
• For Butler, Michael Ajayi registered his 16th double-double of the season with 21 points and 12 rebounds

• Seton Hall held an opponent under 70 points for the 20th time this season – second-most among all NCAA Division I teams.
• The Pirates – ranked 12th nationally in steals per game (9.5) – tied a season-high with 13 swipes.
• Butler’s Michael Ajayi has 16 double-doubles – tying for the most by a BIG EAST player since Creighton’s Baylor Scheierman had 16 during the 2023-24 season.

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• Dylan Darling tallied 18 of his game and season-high 23 points in the second half to lead No. 17/17 St. John’s to a win at Providence.
• The win extended the Johnnies’ overall win streak to 11 games – the fourth-longest streak in the country.
• The Red Storm built as much as a 13-point advantage in the first half.
• Providence answered with a 7-0 push of its own and got within five at the half (34-29).
• The Friars started the second half on a 7-1 push, regaining the lead early into the period.
• St. John’s took the lead for good after a pair of Bryce Hopkins free throws with 14:25 to play.
• Zuby Ejiofor finished with 14 points, while Oziyah Sellers added 11 for the Red Storm.
• Stefan Vaaks led Providence with 20 points to go with five rebounds and three assists.  Ryan Mela added 14 points and nine boards.

• St. John’s held a 31-3 advantage in bench scoring
• The win marked SJU’s 10th straight BIG EAST road victory – the longest such stretch of conference road wins in program history
• Providence’s Stefan Vaaks logged his sixth game with 20 or more points and is one of only three freshmen nationally to have at least 70 made 3-pointers on the season

• The Wildcats got double-doubles from Duke Brennan (21 points/12 rebounds) and Tyler Perkins (17 points/11 rebounds) in a road win at Creighton
• It was Brennan’s team-best 11th double-double, while Perkins logged his second of the season
• Nova used an extended 23-8 run en route to building a 16-point lead in the opening frame.  The Cats would lead 41-27 at halftime.
• Creighton would get within single digits in the second half, cutting the deficit to seven (49-42) with 16:17 left and eight (68-60) with just under two minutes to play.
• Devin Askew (13) and Malachi Palmer (10) tallied double-digits off the bench for Villanova.
• Nik Graves led the Bluejays with 15 points to go with five assists.  Josh Dix added 14 points and Austin Swartz 12.

• Villanova improved to 6-1 in BIG EAST road games and has seven road victories on the season – tied for the second-most among power conference teams
• Devin Askew logged his ninth double-digit scoring output off the bench; six have come in BIG EAST play
• Creighton has logged five or more 3-pointers in 97 straight games

• Four Musketeers scored in double figures, led by a career-high 23 from Jovan Milicevic.
• Marquette’s Nigel James Jr. logged his third 30-point performance in BIG EAST play, finishing with 30 points and a career-best 12 assists.
• Xavier trailed for only 19 seconds on the day, after Marquette’s James Jr. opened the game with a 3-pointer.
• The Musketeers connected on 11 first half 3-pointers, opening up as much as a 21-point lead (46-25) with 4:25 left in the opening period
• Marquette’s offense shifted into high gear in the second half, connecting on nearly 58% from the floor
• A Ben Gold dunk got the Golden Eagles as close as three (72-69) with seven and a half minutes to play.
• MU was within four with 2:08 to go before Xavier closed the game on a 9-5 push.
• For Xavier, All Wright finished with 19 points, while Tre Carroll added 18. Filip Borovicanin registered a double-double with 15 points and 11 boards.
• Royce Parham logged 24 points and 10 boards for the Golden Eagles; his second double-double in as many games.

• Xavier has scored 90 or more in BIG EAST play on three occasions and 80 or more seven times.
• The Musketeers logged a season-best 16 3-pointers on 34 attempts
• Marquette’s Nigel James Jr. is the first BIG EAST freshman since Notre Dame’s Troy Murphy to have at least three 30+ point games in conference regular season play
• It was also the first 30 point/12 assist performance in BIG EAST play since Feb. 23, 2002 (Chris Thomas, Notre Dame)

• Solo Ball scored 20 points and Alex Karaban added 18 as No. 6/5 UConn improved to 14-1 in BIG EAST play.
• Karaban became UConn’s all-time winningest player, logging his 116th victory in a Husky uniform.
• The Huskies made 56% of their shot attempts in the first half, leading by as many as 11.  UConn led 41-33 at the break.
• The lead would rise to as many as 14 (49-35) in the second half before Georgetown began to chip away
• The Hoyas’ Kayvaun Mulready would score 12 of his 15 points over the final 12:30, including a free throw with 11 seconds left that made it a two-point game (77-75).
• Two Karaban free throws with 10 ticks to play sealed the win for the Huskies
• Silas Demary Jr. narrowly missed his second triple-double of the season for UConn, finishing with 15 points, 12 rebounds, and nine assists. Freshmen Braylon Mullins and Eric Reibe tallied 10 points apiece.
• Georgetown’s KJ Lewis led all scorers with 24 points.  The junior guard added nine rebounds, three assists,, and five steals.
• Vince Iwuchukwu finished with 16 points and seven boards, while Kayvaun Mulready had 15 points (4-7 3FG).

• Alex Karaban also logged his 136th start for UConn, also a new program standard
• Over his last two games, Solo Ball has hit 11 3-pointers on 27 attempts for the Huskies
• Georgetown’s KJ Lewis registered his third game with at least 20 points and five steals.  He is one of two power conference players to do so on at least three occasions.

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• Tyler Perkins had 22 points and eight rebounds as Villanova rallied late at home against Marquette
• There were three ties and four lead changes over the final 20 minutes of play.
• The Wildcats made 13 3-pointers in the game, including six over the final eight and a half minutes of regulation
• Marquette led by nine points with 6:13 to go after a Ben Gold corner 3-pointer made it 66-57.  That shot keyed a stretch where both teams combined to connect from beyond on the arc on seven straight possessions.
• Nova tied it up at 66-66 with 4:20 left after a trio of three-balls – two from Perkins and one from Matthew Hodge.
• The Golden Eagles used the 3-pointer on back-to-back possessions – from Gold and Chase Ross – to lead 72-66 with 3:15 to go.
• The Wildcats closed the game on an 11-2 push, going 6-for-6 from the charity stripe to seal the win.
• Nova led by as many as 11 points, holding a 20-9 advantage at the 10:14 mark in the first half.  The Golden Eagles trimmed that deficit to four points – 36-32 – by halftime.
• Marquette used a 23-7 run midway through the second half to go from trailing by seven to gaining a nine-point lead.
• Acaden Lewis finished with 15 points, five assists, and three steals for Villanova.  Hodge finished with 13 points, while Duke Brennan added 10 points and eight boards.
• Royce Parham poured in a career-high 26 points for Marquette to go with 11 rebounds for his first collegiate double-double.  Parham made 8-of-9 shots from the floor and 9-of-10 from the free throw line.
• Adrian Stevens posted his second straight game with a season-best 18 points.  Nigel James Jr. dished out six assists.

• Villanova’s Tyler Perkins has tallied 15 or more points in each of the last eight games.
• Over the span, the 6-4 junior is averaging 18.0 points, 6.9 rebounds, 1.8 assists, and 1.2 steals while connecting on better than 40% from the perimeter (21-52).
• Marquette’s Royce Parham posted one of the most efficient scoring performances in the BIG EAST this season, tallying 26 points on only nine field goal attempts.
• The only other player to score at least 25 on nine or fewer FGA: teammate Chase Ross.  Ross tallied 27 points on eight shots against Central Michigan (Nov. 22).

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• Freshman Acaden Lewis poured in a season-high 26 points to help propel Villanova to a road win at Georgetown.  Lewis made 11-of-15 shots (3-5 3FG) to go with six assists and three steals.
• Lewis – from Washington, D.C. – scored 17 of his 26 over the final 10-plus minutes of the game.
• The Hoyas led for much of the first half; Villanova did hold a pair of one-point leads.
• The Wildcats took a 27-26 lead with 7:54 left before an 11-4 push by the Hoyas gave them their largest lead of the half (37-31).  The Hoyas led 40-37 at the break.
• There were six ties and three lead changes in the second half as both teams traded runs early in the period.
• Nova opened the final 20 minutes with six quick points on back-to-back 3-pointers before a 10-1 Georgetown push put it back up six (50-44).
• Malachi Palmer and Tyler Perkins made three shots from beyond the arc over an extended 17-4 push that gave Villanova a 61-54 lead with 10:21 to play.
• The Hoyas’ Malik Mack scored eight of the next 12 points before a Vince Iwuchukwu dunk tied it at 66-66 with 5:41.
• From there, it was all Villanova, as an 11-3 push gave the ‘Cats the lead for good.  Lewis scored 10 of those 11 points, including a pair of 3-pointers that pushed the lead to eight (77-69) with 1:46 to play.
• For Villanova, Duke Brennan logged his 10th double-double of the season with 13 points and 13 rebounds.  Tyler Perkins had 15 points and eight rebounds, while Malachi Palmer tallied 10 points off the bench.
• Georgetown was led by 21 points from Mack.  Iwuchukwu had 15 points and 12 boards, while KJ Lewis added 13 points.
• The loss snapped a four-game win streak for the Hoyas.

• With the win, Villanova improved to 5-1 in BIG EAST road games on the season
• The Wildcats made at least 10 3-pointers for the 14th time this season; Nova is 10-4 in those games
• Georgetown’s Vince Iwuchukwu recorded back-to-back double-doubles for the first time in his career.  He is the first Hoya to do so since a season ago, when Thomas Sorber did so against Villanova (1/20/25) and Providence (1/25/25).

• Four Golden Eagles reached double-digits, led by Chase Ross’ 19 points and a season-high 18 from freshman Adrian Stevens
• Marquette led throughout the first 13-plus minutes, opening up as much as an eight-point advantage (14-6).
• A trio of 3-pointers from Butler’s Finley Bizjack would push the Bulldogs ahead by four (28-24) with 2:14 left in the opening period.
• Eight straight points from Marquette to close the first half gave it a 32-28 lead at the break.
• The Golden Eagles began the second half with a pair of 3-pointers as part of an extended 19-9 run.  A trifecta from Stevens with 13:58 to go gave Marquette its largest lead of the game – 17 points (54-37).
• Marquette made 56.0% of its shot attempts over the final 20 minutes (14-25), including 9-of-14 shots from the outside.
• Butler’s Finley Bizjack finished with 23 points, making 8-of-12 shots from the floor including 5-of-7 from the perimeter.
• Michael Ajayi tallied 19 rebounds (5 off; 14 def) – his second-highest total of the season
• For Marquette, Nigel James Jr. finished with 16 points, four assists, and four steals, while Royce Parham added 12 points.  Ben Gold grabbed a team-best 10 rebounds.

• Former Marquette head coach Tom Crean was honored with a banner in the rafters at halftime of the game, celebrating his accomplishments during his tenure with Golden Eagles.
• The Golden Eagles tied their season-high with 14 3-pointers.
• Butler was missing a pair of starters (Jamie Kaiser Jr. and Stink Robinson); Evan Haywood earned his first start of the season

• Jason Edwards returned to the Providence lineup after missing the previous seven games and led all scorers with 25 points
• With the game tied at 7-7 early on after a 3-pointer by DePaul’s CJ Gunn, the Friars broke the game open with a 15-4 run.  Providence would not trail the rest of the way.
• An Edwards 3-pointer late in the opening half extended the Friar lead to 19; PC would lead 43-26 at the break.
• Providence built on its lead in the second half.  Back-to-back fastbreak dunks from freshmen Stefan Vaaks and Jamier Jones put the home team ahead by 20.
• The fifth 3-pointer of the day from Edwards built the largest lead of the day – 27 points – with 2:18 to go.
• The Friars connected on a season-best 58.9% from the floor (33-56), making 9-of-21 attempts from the perimeter.
• Brandon Maclin led DePaul with 17 points off the bench, making 8-of-13 shots from the floor.  Kaleb Banks added 11 points, also in reserve play for the Blue Demons.
• For Providence, Jaylin Sellers added an efficient 21 points on eight total field goal attempts, while Ryan Mela added 16 points and eight boards. Oswin Erhunmwunse tallied a double-double with 10 points and 13 boards.

• Providence’s Jaylin Sellers tallied 57 points over two games this week – the most over a two-game span by a Friar since Josh Oduro in Feb. 2024
• Stefan Vaaks finished with eight points for the Friars – marking the first time in 24 games that he did not reach double figures
• In conference play, DePaul’s Brandon Maclin leads the BIG EAST in scoring by a reserve (zero starts), averaging 10.8 points per game.  Over his last 10 games, the 6-3 guard is averaging 12.3 ppg.

• A Nik Graves 3-pointer with three seconds left capped an 11-1 run to close the game for Creighton
• Trailing by 10 (63-53) with 3:30 to play – and by nine (67-58) with 1:35 to go – the Bluejays’ Fedor Zugic hit a pair of 3-pointers and Jasen Green a putback layup – to cut the margin to one – 67-66 – with 22 ticks to play.
• Seton Hall’s Trey Parker made 1-of-2 free throws with 17 seconds to play, putting the Pirates up 68-66 before the eventual game winning possession for the Jays.
• In the first half, Creighton was paced by 15 points from Isaac Traudt who made four 3-pointers in the opening eight minutes of play.
• A layup by Owen Freeman gave the Bluejays a seven-point lead (22-15) with 11:22 left in the period.  Seven unanswered by the Pirates tied it up at 22-22 less than two minutes later.
• There were four lead changes and three ties over the final 9:33, with Seton Hall holding a 34-32 lead at the break.
• In the second half, Creighton took a 41-38 lead after a Josh Dix 3-pointer with 16:33 left made it 41-38.
• Seton Hall would score 10 straight to start an extended 19-6 run.  Two free throws from Tajuan Simpkins gave the Pirates a 57-47 lead with nine and half minutes to play.
• SHU would lead 63-53, after a layup by Elijah Fisher with 3:30 left, before the Creighton run to close the game.
• For Seton Hall, Budd Clark led the way with 20 points, making 8-of-16 shots (3-4 3FG).  AJ Staton-McCray had 11 points and Elijah Fisher 10.  Stephon Payne grabbed 11 rebounds.
• Traudt’s 18 points led Creighton, while Dix added 16 points and Zugic 13.  Green had 11 points and seven boards.

• The victory marked the 33rd double-digit comeback win for Creighton under head coach Greg McDermott
• Creighton has won 10 or more home games in 11 straight seasons and 29 of the past 30 years
• Seton Hall’s Budd Clark has scored 18 or more in four consecutive games; his three 3-pointers tied a career-best

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• Zuby Ejiofor finished with 21 points, 10 rebounds, seven assists, three blocks, and two steals to lead No. 22/22 St. John’s past No. 3/3 UConn in front of a capacity crowd at Madison Square Garden.
• The senior forward made 6-of-10 shots from the floor and 8-of-10 from the charity stripe.
• Neither team gained more than a six-point advantage in the first half; UConn led 16-10 with 13:50 to play in the period, while SJU took a 23-17 lead at the 10:10 mark.
• There were six lead changes and four ties, including a 39-39 score at intermission.
• UConn’s Solo Ball 3-pointer early in the second half made it 45-45 before a 10-0 run by St. John’s gave it the lead for good.
• Bryce Hopkins’ 3-pointer with 13:03 to play.
• The Huskies cut the deficit to one point twice, the last coming off a Silas Demary Jr. layup which made it 66-65 with 4:46 remaining.
• SJU would outscore UConn 15-7 the rest of the way.
• Dillon Mitchell had 15 points and six rebounds, while Bryce Hopkins chipped in with 14 points and six boards for the Johnnies.
• UConn was led by 18 points from Silas Demary Jr., who also added seven rebounds and five assists.
• Alex Karaban tallied an efficient 17 points on 7-of-10 shooting, including 3-of-4 from the perimeter.  Tarris Reed Jr. added 12 points and Braylon Mullins 11.

• Dating back to last season, St. John’s has won three straight against Connecticut.
• It was St. John’s’ highest-ranked win since Feb. 3, 2021, when it defeated No. 3/3 Villanova at Carnesecca Arena; it was the highest-ranked victory for the Red Storm at Madison Square Garden since taking down No. 3/3 Duke on Jan. 30, 2011
• Since Jan. 6, SJU’s Bryce Hopkins is averaging 14.3 points, 6.1 rebounds, and 2.0 assists per game
• UConn’s 18 straight wins marked the third-longest win streak in program history
• Alex Karaban made his 134th career start at UConn – one short of the program record, held by Jake Voskuhl (1996-2000)

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• UConn’s 18-game single-season winning streak trails only a 19-game streak in 1998-99 and a 23-game run in 1995-96 for best in program history
• Over his last three games, UConn’s Tarris Reed Jr. has connected on 19-of-20 shots from the floor and is averaging 13.7 points, 6.3 rebounds, 2.0 assists, and 2.0 blocked shots in 21 minutes per game.
• Xavier’s Tre Carroll finished with nine points, ending an eight-game streak of scoring in double-digits.  During that span, Carroll averaged 22.4 points per game.

• The win improved St. John’s BIG EAST record to 10-1 for the second straight season.  The Red Storm started 10-1 a season ago under head coach Rick Pitino
• It was also the Johnnies’ ninth consecutive road victory in BIG EAST play.
• DePaul’s Layden Blocker has scored in double-digits in seven straight game.  During the span, the junior guard is averaging 13.3 points per game.

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beginning with Xavier at No. 3/3 UConn at 7 p.m. ET.  An hour later, No. 22/22 St. John’s takes on DePaul in Chicago, tipping off at 8 p.m. ET.  All five mid-week games tonight and Wednesday in the BIG EAST will air on Peacock.  NBC Sports Network will also air Tuesday’s Xavier/UConn matchup.

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• It was Devin Askew’s fourth 20-point performance of the season – and third in his last five games.
• With his five 3-pointers, Stefan Vaaks now has 60 3-pointers on the season – second-most among all freshmen nationally (Jake Hall, New Mexico – 61)

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